At 4:00 a.m. Beijing time on January 8, the NBA Nets hosted the Trail Blazers, with Dinwiddie, Bridges, Johnson, Finney Smith, and Claxton in the starting five, and the Trail Blazers starting lineup Simmons, Henderson, Grant, Kamara, and Reese.
At the beginning of the first quarter, Claxton easily scored 2 points under the basket, and Bridges scored 3 points with an arrow from the outside, and the Nets led 5-0 at the beginning. Henderson did not show weakness on the outside, and also drew his bow and shot an arrow from a distance, and hit a 3-pointer with a long shot, Johnson threw back a 2-pointer, and the two sides chased me to kill the wind and water, and the Nets led the Trail Blazers by 4 points at 30:26 at the end of the first quarter.
The fight continued in the second quarter, Reece came up from the outside and hit a 3-pointer from a distance, Johnson executed a three-second free throw to score one point, Sharpe made a foul and made one of two free throws to score one point, and the Trail Blazers chased down 30:31 with a difference of one point. Reece also scored 1 point from the foul free throw and 1 free throw, O'Neal Jr. hit a 3-point shot from a distance with 100 steps from the outside, and the two sides fell into offensive mode, and the Trail Blazers trailed the Nets by 2 points at 50:52.
Statistics of the first half of the two sides: Nets Bridges 13 points, 3 rebounds and 1 assist, Claxton 8 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists and 3 blocks, Dinwiddie 5 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists, Thomas Jr. 7 points and 3 rebounds, Trail Blazers Simmons 13 points, 2 rebounds and 4 assists, Grant 11 points, 2 rebounds and 1 steal, Henderson 6 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist, Sharpe 8 points, 1 assist and 1 steal.
In the second half, the two sides fought again, and the two sides were still in full swing. The Nets' Bridges bombarded alone, and teammates Johnson and Claxton also continued to add icing on the cake. The Trail Blazers' Grant, Simmons, and Shelton Sharpe scored offensive points one after another, leading the team to catch up! The score of the two sides was tied 115-115 in the fourth quarter of the battle and entered overtime.
At the beginning of overtime, Johnson scored 3 points with a sword from the outside, Grant broke through the layup and hit 2 points, Bridges scored 2+1 in the face of confrontation, and the Nets led by 4 points at 121:117. Simmons hit a 2-pointer from a fast-break basket and Grant hit a 2-point pull-up jumper to tie the game again at 121-121. In the end, the fierce battle game ended, and the Trail Blazers reversed the Nets 134-127!