Damian Lillard scored a season-high 60 points, striking 9 3-guidelines, and the Portland Trail Blazers beat the Utah Jazz 134-124 on Wednesday night.
Lillard connected for second-most in the NBA this season. Donovan Mitchell had 71 in an overtime videogame for Cleveland versus Chicago on Jan. 3, and Luka Doncic scored 60 in Dallas’ OT success over New York on Dec. 27.
Jerami Grant included 19 points to assistance Portland win its 2nd straight videogame.
Lauri Markkanen led the Jazz with 24 points. He had a layup followed by a idea shot with 5: 20 left that got Utah to 115-108.
Grant and Anfernee Simons had back-to-back dunks to put Portland up 121-110 and the Blazers led easily the rest of the method.
When Lillard came to the free-throw line late in the videogame, the house crowd stood and shouted “MVP! “MVP!” Lillard missedouton a dive shot with 29.1 seconds left that would have topped his profession finest 61.
Lillard has 4 profession videogames of 60 points or more. He’s reached 61 twotimes.
After havingahardtime for much of January, the Blazers were coming off a morale-boosting 147-127 success over San Antonio on Monday.
Lillard had 26 points in the veryfirst half, striking 6 3s.
Lillard completed 21 of 29 from the field, 9 of 15 on 3s and 9 of 10 at the line. He likewise had 8 helps, 7 rebounds and 3 takes.
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