{"id":893236,"date":"2026-10-24T17:05:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T17:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/893236\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T17:05:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T17:05:03","slug":"deni-avdija-scores-26-points-to-lead-trail-blazers-in-win-over-kings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/893236\/","title":{"rendered":"Deni Avdija scores 26 points to lead Trail Blazers in win over Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/57UEBBBSHJEPBDDHALNFEFPPAQ.jpg\" alt=\"Portland Trail Blazers forward Deni Avdija, center, drives to the basket with Sacramento Kings guards Emanuel Sharp (34) and Malik Monk (0) defending during the first half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Oct. 23, 2026, in Sacramento, Calif.\" class=\" cursor__zoom-in\" style=\"aspect-ratio:3674 \/ 2449;width:100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"m-none m_bottom-mini\">Portland Trail Blazers forward Deni Avdija, center, drives to the basket with Sacramento Kings guards Emanuel Sharp (34) and Malik Monk (0) defending during the first half of an NBA basketball game Friday, Oct. 23, 2026, in Sacramento, Calif.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__image-by color_dgray f_s_xxs m-none\">Sara Nevis \/ AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Deni Avdija led the Trail Blazers with 26 points, six rebounds, and six assists in the Portland Trail Blazers 128-120 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Damian Lillard and Toumani Camara scored 19 points each and helped the Trail Blazers improve to 2-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Rookie Darius Acuff Jr. scored 33 points, while Domantas Sabonis had 27 points, 19 rebounds, and 10 assists for the Kings (0-2) in their home opener. Zach LaVine added 22 points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">The Kings had a 12-point lead after LaVine made three free throws midway through the 1st quarter and held a 64-59 lead at halftime. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">The Trail Blazers got off to a hot start in the third quarter with, starting on a 15-0 run, capped off by a 3-point basket by Camara for a 74-64 lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Portland made 8 of 19 shots from 3-point range in the third quarter after a making only 4 of 22 from distance in the first half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Sacramento cut the lead 121-118 on a 3-pointer by Sabonis with 3:21 left to play in the fourth quarter. Donovan Clignan\u2019s late basket and two free throws, along with Avdija adding another free throw with 43.5 seconds left kept sealed the win for the Trail Blazers<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Trail Blazers: Face the Los Angeles Lakers on the road at Crypto.com Arena on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Kings: Play the Memphis Grizzlies at home on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See AP\u2019s full NBA coverage here<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers forward Deni Avdija, center, drives to the basket with Sacramento Kings guards Emanuel Sharp (34)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,212770,99],"class_list":["post-893236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-portland-trail-blazers-trail-blazers-basketball-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893236","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=893236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}