SACRAMENTO -- For the first two quarters, neither the Trail Blazers nor the Kings had much success putting together sustained periods of decent basketball.
That changed in the second half, at least for the road team.
After entering the intermission tied at 57-57, Trail Blazers scored the first 12 points of the third and outscored the Kings by 10 in quarter to set up a 122-112 victory in front of a sellout crowd of 17,583 Friday night at Golden 1 Center.
Portland is now 1-1 for the season and 1-0 on the road.
While Portland managed to shoot better than 50 percent from the field and committed just seven turnover in the first half, their difficulty defending the three-point line and inability to slow Sacramento’s second-chance opportunities ruined their chances of going into the break with a lead.