The Portland Trail Blazers and Sacramento Kings engaged in a scoring-heavy slugfest on Thursday night, dueling nose-to-nose for 48 minutes in a game where neither could keep a double-digit lead. Portland kept their customary advantage at the three-point arc, but they gave away the benefits by allowing Sacramento to score like hotcakes in the lane and on the run. But the Blazers had a trump card that Sacramento didn’t. Damian Lillard zeroed in on the win as the clock dwindled in the fourth. The Kings couldn’t do a thing to stop him. At the end of a long and somewhat-messy evening, the Blazers earned a 123-119 victory.
Blazers Out-Lillard Fox, Refuse to Hield in Victory Over Kings
