PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) Damian Lillard scored 42 points, Anfernee Simons hit a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 34 seconds left and the Portland Trail Blazers held off the Atlanta Hawks 129-125 on Monday night. Jerami Grant had 22 points and Simons finished with 21, including his clutch 3 off a pass from Lillard to give the Trail Blazers a 124-121 lead.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Damian Lillard scored 42 points, Anfernee Simons hit a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 34 seconds left and the Portland Trail Blazers held off the Atlanta Hawks 129-125 on Monday night. Jerami Grant had 22 points and Simons finished with 21, including his clutch 3 that gave the Trail Blazers a 124-121 lead.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Damian Lillard scored 42 points, Anfernee Simons hit a tiebreaking 3-pointer with 34 seconds left and the Portland Trail Blazers held off the Atlanta Hawks 129-125 on Monday night. Jerami Grant had 22 points and Simons finished with 21, including his clutch 3 off a pass from Lillard to give the Trail Blazers a 124-121 lead.
At 10–16, they have the worst record in away games of the top-six teams in the East after adding two losses and one win to their tally. Two days after that complete showing against one of the two teams ahead of them in the conference, the Kings fell flat in an 18-point home loss to the Raptors, who have struggled on the road.
And you know, that obviously was the game for us.” Williams stole the ball from Young and dunked to cut Atlanta’s lead to 133-132 with 15.3 seconds left.
Sabonis has appeared in 16 more games than Williamson, and while his stats may not be as gaudy, he’s impacted winning just as much. In the East, Embiid has to be wondering why he’s been left out of the starting five.
Suffice it to say that when you’re one-tenth of an assist away from averaging a 25-point triple-double with the NBA’s second-highest true shooting percentage, you’re leading the league in a frankly hilarious number of advanced metrics, you’ve arguably been even more efficient and effective than you were in winning the last two MVP trophies, and you’re the best player on the No. Only Jokic and Joel Embiid average more frontcourt touches per game than Sabonis, who’s scoring 18.7 points per game on career-best 60.9% shooting and getting to the free-throw line at a career-high rate, while also leading the league in rebounding and sitting tied for eighth in assists.
Williams stole the ball from Young and dunked to cut Atlanta's lead to 133-132 with 15.3 seconds left. Murray was fouled and made two free throws at the other end with 2.7 seconds remaining to put the game out of reach.