passed Wilt Chamberlain for seventh place on the NBA\u2019s career scoring list<\/a> when he made a 3-pointer in the third quarter. <\/p>\nDurant needed 15 points going into the game to eclipse Chamberlain, who scored 31,419 points. Durant\u2019s jumper with 7:57 left in the third gave him 31,422.<\/p>\n
Avdija hit a 3 to pull the Blazers to 99-98 with 3:54 left, then made four straight free throws to give Portland a 102-99 lead with 2:43 remaining. <\/p>\n
Amen Thompson, who had 24 points and nine rebounds, dunked to make it 102-101. <\/p>\n
Portland stretched the lead to 107-103 on Sidy Cissoko\u2019s dunk and held off Houston the rest of the way. <\/p>\n
The teams also met on Wednesday with Portland winning 103-102. Tari Eason\u2019s tip-in as time ran out for Houston did not beat the buzzer upon replay review.<\/p>\n
Portland has been resilient despite a number of key injuries. The team hasn\u2019t had starting forward Jerami Grant since Dec. 18 because of Achilles tendinitis. Jrue Holiday, out with a calf strain since mid-November, was upgraded to doubtful but did not play. <\/p>\n
After a tight first half in which neither team led by double figures, the Rockets took an 86-74 lead on Durant\u2019s 3-pointer in the third quarter. <\/p>\n
Portland rallied in the final period, closing to 94-91 on Duop Reath\u2019s 3-pointer. Camara dunked to get the Blazers closer, but Durant answered with a 3 to keep the Rockets in front 97-93 with 5:32 left. <\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
The Rockets visit Sacramento on Sunday night. <\/p>\n
The Trail Blazers host the New York Knicks on Sunday. <\/p>\n
___<\/p>\n
AP NBA: https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Toumani Camara scored 25 points and the Portland Trail Blazers extended their winning streak…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[883,7,601,980,6913,194,5673,2038,938,61753,6,446,6912,2470,687,471,3967,4426,12018,66,873,2098,7140,1617,582],"class_list":["post-529588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-portland-trail-blazers","tag-amen-thompson","tag-basketball","tag-blazers","tag-deni-avdija","tag-duop-reath","tag-houston-rockets","tag-jerami-grant","tag-jrue-holiday","tag-kevin-durant","tag-local-news-for-apple","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-or-state-wire","tag-oregon","tag-portland","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-portlandtrailblazers","tag-shaedon-sharpe","tag-sidy-cissoko","tag-sports","tag-tari-eason","tag-texas","tag-toumani-camara","tag-trail-blazers","tag-tx-state-wire"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115876898215138811","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}