after 52 points in Salt Lake City<\/a> on Sunday, the Lakers didn\u2019t have the defensive support behind another brilliant offensive performance, falling to the Blazers 136-129 to drop to 3-1 on the season.\u00a0<\/p>\nLuka Doncic reacts to a Lakers foul during the first half of the Lakers\u2019 136-129 loss to the Trail Blazers on Oct. 27, 2026 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. Getty Images<\/p>\n
Doncic had 41 points on 12-for-22 shooting (6 of 15 on 3-pointers, 11 of 13 on free throws) to go with nine assists and five rebounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Austin Reaves was once again uber-efficient, recording 26 points on 8-of-13 shooting (4 of 8 on 3s), plus seven assists and four rebounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Deni Avdija drives to the basket while being guarded by Ziaire Williams (behind) during the first half of the Lakers\u2019 loss to the Trail Blazers. AP Photo\/Caroline Brehman<\/p>\n
But the Blazers, who entered Tuesday with the league\u2019s second-best offense, took advantage of the Lakers\u2019 struggles with containing the ball.<\/p>\n
The Blazers were led by Deni Avdija\u2019s 23 points, nine assists and four rebounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ja Morant (23 points, four assists), Damian Lillard (21 points, four assists) and Jrue Holiday (22 points, four rebounds) also scored at least 20 points for the Blazers.<\/p>\n
Luka Doncic, who scored 41 points, shoots a long jumper over Sidy Cissoko during the Lakers\u2019 loss to the Trail Blazers. NBAE via Getty Images<\/p>\n
The Blazers scored on five straight possessions late in the fourth to prevent the Lakers from keeping pace.<\/p>\n
The Lakers couldn\u2019t stop Portland from anywhere on the court: The Blazers shot 59% from the field and 50% on 3s.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Blazers would\u2019ve won by more if they made the easiest shots: They made just 63% of their free throws (26 of 41).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Through the early parts of 2026-27, the Lakers had cobbled together enough strong defensive moments that allowed their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,160,150,6,687,471,3967,66,1617],"class_list":["post-869766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-portland-trail-blazers","tag-basketball","tag-blazers","tag-california","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-portland","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-portlandtrailblazers","tag-sports","tag-trail-blazers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117517265349267792","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869766","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=869766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}