—– Deni Avdija finished with 30 points, eight rebounds, and eight assists and Shaedon Sharpe added 27 points and seven rebounds as the Portland Trail Blazers improved to 22-22 on the season with a 117-110 victory over the Sacramento Kings at Golden 1 Center.<\/p>\n
The Portland Trail Blazers are now 8-1 in 2026! Deni Avdija led Portland (22-22) with 30 points, eight rebounds, and eight assists and Shaedon Sharpe added 27 points and seven rebounds as the Portland Trail Blazers defeated the Sacramento Kings 117-110 Sunday evening at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento.<\/p>\n
The game was tied after the first quarter, but the Blazers used a 13-2 run in the second quarter to take a double-digit lead and controlled the game the rest of the way. With the win, Portland improved to 8-2 in their last 10 games and now 8-1 in the new year.<\/p>\n
Donovan Clingan was dominant with 21 points and 17 rebounds and Toumani Camara added 17 points on 7-of-7 shooting.<\/p>\n
With Avdija back in the lineup, the Trail Blazers rested Jrue Holiday, Robert Williams III, and Jerami Grant on the second night of a back-to-back.<\/p>\n
Russell Westbrook led Sacramento (12-31) with 23 points and seven assists and Malik Monk added 23 points on 5-of-9 shooting from beyond-the-arc.<\/p>\n
Up Next- The Trail Blazers will return to Portland to meet the Miami Heat on Thursday night. The game is scheduled to tip off at 7:00 PM.<\/p>\n
Chad’s Take- Deni Avdija was sensational in his return after missing three-games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"—– Deni Avdija finished with 30 points, eight rebounds, and eight assists and Shaedon Sharpe added 27 points…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3792],"tags":[7,11691,52956,3213,980,4672,974,3215,6913,9914,4056,6,471,7217,254,986,477,4055,4426,12018,15840,7140,574,1309,3212],"class_list":["post-546332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento-kings","tag-basketball","tag-caleb-love","tag-chad-doing","tag-demar-derozan","tag-deni-avdija","tag-domantas-sabonis","tag-donovan-clingan","tag-doug-christie","tag-duop-reath","tag-golden-1-center","tag-kings","tag-nba","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-rayan-rupert","tag-russell-westbrook","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sacramentokings","tag-shaedon-sharpe","tag-sidy-cissoko","tag-tiago-splitter","tag-toumani-camara","tag-western-conference","tag-yang-hansen","tag-zach-lavine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115920725833305983","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546332","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=546332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}