PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Damian Lillard scored 25 points and the Portland Trail Blazers snapped a two-game skid with a 123-103 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night. <\/p>\n
Deni Avdija added 24 points, eight assists and six rebounds for the Blazers in the first of back-to-back home games against Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 26 points on 8-of-22 shooting for the Thunder, who had won four straight. Gilgeous-Alexander also grabbed eight rebounds but missed all four of his 3-point attempts and did not play in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
The Thunder are without several key players because of injuries, including Jalen Williams (ankle), Chet Holmgren (knee) and Cason Wallace (shoulder). Jaylin Williams missed his fourth game with back spasms. <\/p>\n
Oklahoma City, coming off a 114-75 victory over Washington on Saturday, acquired guard\/forward Nique Clifford from Sacramento on Sunday. Clifford came off the bench and made his Thunder debut to start the second quarter. He scored on a reverse layup early in the fourth. <\/p>\n
Gilgeous-Alexander scored 12 early points and the Thunder had a 27-26 edge in the first quarter. The back-and-forth first half ended even at 59 with neither team able to build a double-digit lead. <\/p>\n
Jared McCain made a 3-pointer that put the Thunder in front 69-67, but Lillard answered with his own 3. Lillard hit back-to-back 3s to stretch Portland\u2019s lead to 79-71. <\/p>\n
Lillard made a 3 from the logo that gave Portland a 97-80 lead going into the fourth. Jrue Holiday\u2019s 3-pointer put the Blazers up 106-89. <\/p>\n
Sidy Cissoko started for the Blazers in place of Scoot Henderson, who scored 11 points off the bench on 3-for-12 shooting. Cissoko finished with 17 points. <\/p>\n
Holiday also had 11 points off the bench, and Donovan Clingan pulled down 13 rebounds.<\/p>\n
McCain finished with 21 points for the Thunder.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
The teams play again Wednesday in Portland. <\/p>\n
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See AP\u2019s full NBA coverage here <\/p>\n
Anne M. Peterson, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Damian Lillard scored 25 points and the Portland Trail Blazers snapped a two-game skid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[7,6,310,475,179,3966,3965,66,312],"class_list":["post-881466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-oklahomacity","tag-oklahomacitythunder","tag-sports","tag-thunder"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117596521949172815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881466","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=881466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}