On December 27, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued, and the Trail Blazers defeated the Kings 130-113.
The Trail Blazers suffered a two-game losing streak before this game, with 7 wins and 21 losses to sit second from the bottom in the West, and the Kings 17-11 to sit fourth in the West.
In the first quarter of the game, the two teams fought against each other, the Kings led by 1 point at 33-32, and in the second quarter, the Trail Blazers bench players broke out collectively, beating the Kings 35-27 in a single quarter, leading by 7 points at the end of the first half, and leading by 19 points at the most.
Entering the second half, the Trail Blazers bench continued to play wonderfully and continued to score, while the Kings had basically no stable contributions from the bench players, and finally the Kings lost to the Trail Blazers 113-130.
The Kings duo Sabonis Jr. scored 34 points, 12 rebounds and 5 assists, and Fox scored 43 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists.
The Kings are a team that relies heavily on three-point shooting, ranking third in the league in shots (41.4 per game) and field attempts (15.3 per game) and shooting 36.8 from three-point range, but they shot 10-of-42 for 23.8 percent in this game.
The Trail Blazers bench players combined for 65 points, as many as the starters, while the Kings bench players combined for just 17 points in garbage time.
Lisbon, who played in Qingdao Guoxin in the CBA League, had 25 points and 9 rebounds in the game, with a plus/minus of +24.