{"id":250109,"date":"2025-10-25T05:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T05:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/250109\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T05:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T05:17:07","slug":"trail-blazers-139-119-warriors-oct-24-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/250109\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers 139-119 Warriors (Oct 24, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

PORTLAND, Ore. — \u2014 Deni Avdija<\/a> had 26 points and six assists, and the Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> beat the Golden State Warriors<\/a> 139-119 on Friday night in Tiago Splitter\u2019s first game as interim head coach.<\/p>\n

Splitter is stepping in after coach Chauncey Billups was arrested by the FBI early Thursday and arraigned in federal court later that day.<\/p>\n

Splitter told reporters before the game he wanted to keep his team focused on basketball.<\/p>\n

Jerami Grant<\/a> scored 22 points, Toumani Camara<\/a> had 19, and Shaedon Sharpe<\/a> added 17. Donovan Clingan<\/a> had 14 points, Kris Murray<\/a> scored 13, Jrue Holiday<\/a> added 12 points and 11 assists, and Matisse Thybulle<\/a> had 10 points.<\/p>\n

Stephen Curry<\/a> scored 35 points for the Warriors, Jonathan Kuminga<\/a> had 16 points, Jimmy Butler 14 and Draymond Green<\/a> 12.<\/p>\n

Both teams shot well from the 3-point line with Portland making 47% (16 for 34) and Golden State 42% (16 for 38). However, the Trail Blazers outscored the Warriors 66-30 in the paint.<\/p>\n

The Warriors started the game on a 12-4 run but Portland rallied to it at 17. A personal 8-0 run by Curry put the Warriors up 25-17. Portland rallied to tie the score at 28 by the end of the first quarter.<\/p>\n

Portland continued their strong play in the second. Avdija scored 20 points in the first half while Grant pitched in 17. Portland outscored Golden State 41-28 in the second quarter to take a 13-point lead into halftime.<\/p>\n

With 7:50 left in the third quarter, Curry converted a four-point play to cut Portland’s lead to 81-72 but the Warriors held on and led by as many as 25.<\/p>\n

Golden State pulled Curry from the game with 9:35 left and trailing 115-97.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Golden State hosts Memphis on Monday night. <\/p>\n

Portland visits the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. — \u2014 Deni Avdija had 26 points and six assists, and the Portland Trail Blazers beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-250109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}