{"id":372531,"date":"2025-12-27T06:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T06:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/372531\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T06:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T06:37:09","slug":"brook-lopez-makes-nine-threes-in-clippers-win-over-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/372531\/","title":{"rendered":"Brook Lopez makes nine threes in Clippers’ win over Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PORTLAND, Ore.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0James Harden<\/a> had 34 points, Brook Lopez<\/a> scored 31 points, including a career-high nine three-pointers, and the Clippers<\/a> beat the Portland Trail Blazers 119-103<\/a> on Friday night for their third straight win.<\/p>\n

Kawhi Leonard<\/a> pitched in 28 points, eight rebounds and six assists, including 18 points in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

Deni Avdija led Portland with 27 points, eight rebounds and eight assists.<\/p>\n

The Clippers outscored the Blazers 63-41 in the second half, including a 19-1 run in the third quarter to take control.<\/p>\n

A free throw by Donovan Clingan made it 71-59 Blazers with 8:16 left in the third quarter, matching Portland\u2019s biggest lead of the game. After a drought for both teams, the Clippers took over.<\/p>\n

After Lopez\u2019s seventh three-pointer made it 72-67, acting Blazers coach Tiago Splitter was called for a technical foul. Leonard made the free throw to make it 72-68.<\/p>\n

Harden hit two free throws and then scored on a driving layup to tie the game at 72.<\/p>\n

The Clippers took their first lead at 75-72 with 3:23 left in the third quarter on Lopez\u2019s eighth three. Lopez connected on his ninth to make it 78-72.<\/p>\n

Harden\u2019s four-point play with 1:06 left in the third quarter pushed the lead to 85-77.<\/p>\n

Leonard had a ferocious dunk on Clingan to make it 95-86.<\/p>\n

After a basket by Avdija cut the L.A.\u2019s lead to seven, the Clippers had a six-point possession to push their lead to 101-88 with 8:19 left.<\/p>\n

After the Clippers cut Portland\u2019s first-half lead to 52-50, the Blazers went on a 9-0 run, capped by a fast break dunk from Shaedon Sharpe to make it 61-50, forcing a Clippers timeout.<\/p>\n

After the timeout, a three-point play from Harden and a three-pointer from Kobe Sanders helped cut the Portland lead to 62-56 at halftime.<\/p>\n

Up next for the Clippers: vs. the Detroit Pistons at Intuit Dome on Sunday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore.\u00a0\u2014\u00a0James Harden had 34 points, Brook Lopez scored 31 points, including a career-high nine three-pointers, and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[182621,4199,8260,155495,7630,25170,155496,5460,6418,11653,355,13544,18223,17589,99,21122,48947],"class_list":["post-372531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-big-lead","tag-blazers","tag-brook-lopez","tag-clipper","tag-clippers","tag-deni-avdija","tag-free-throw","tag-game","tag-james-harden","tag-kawhi-leonard","tag-nba","tag-point","tag-portland","tag-rebound","tag-sports","tag-third-quarter","tag-three-pointer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372531","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=372531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}