NBA Comfortable San Antonio Victoria
Asupported by LaMarcus Aldridge, 22 points, and DeMar DeRozan, 20 and 11 assists, the Spurs defeated the Trail Blazers, 125-104, in a game held on the day of Martin Luther King.
The Spurs also had the help of Rudy Gay and Patty Mills, who each signed 21 points off the bench. It was one of the keys because the Texans’ reserves were much more productive than those of Oregon: 59-24. Jakob Poeltl contributed 11 points and 7 rebounds, six of them in attack.
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The Blazers fell despite a great 35-point scorer Damian Lillard. The three trebles he made, out of 10 attempts, place him seventeenth in the NBA’s all-time rankings, beating Kobe Bryant.
Regardless, Carmelo Anthony put the Blazers ahead two and a half minutes from the end of the third quarter, 80-78. But a 0-11 from the Texans left Popovich’s team close to victory midway through the final period, 82-95. The Spurs ended the game with players off the bench.
Portland noticed too much the loss of CJ McCollum, with a foot problem, that he will miss at least another week. McCollum was averaging 26.7 points and five assists before the injury.
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