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Trail Blazers 113, Lakers 86
while Portland put on an impressive
bounds, and Rick Fox had 17 points.
display o f dunks and layups.
The Lakers clearly could have
A driving layup by Stoudamire
used Glen Rice, who m issed his
that
included a 360-degree spin
second straight game w ith flulike
around
Derek Fisher made it 50-32,
symptoms. He didn't make the trip
and
Stoudamire's
running shot at the
to Portland.
buzzer
provided
a
21-point lead.
"T h e y didn't have their best
The
Blazers
endured
a dry spell
shooter, so we can't overestimate
during
the
third
quarter
in
which
they
this game," Blazers guard Jim Jack-
son said. "B u t it's still a big-time . went 5 1/2 minutes without a field
goal. But the Lakers put together
win for us."
only a modest 9-3 run during the
Dennis Rodman sat out the sec­
stretch, and a baseline jum per by
ond half with a sore left elbow and
Jackson made it 65-46 with 5:43 left
hadjust four rebounds and no points.
in the period.
He told trainers he had tendinitis in
A 3-pointer by W illiams with 29.7
the elbow and couldn't play.
seconds left in the quarter gave the
" It takes a man to go out and say
Blazers a 25-point lead. They led by
he doesn't have it," Rodman told TNT
as many as 28.
after the game, adding that he had
The Blazers shot 56 percent, the
lost five pounds the last few days
Lakers
just 39 percent.
with the flu.” I play through the pain,
Two
teams hadn’t played since
but I just didn't have it today."
The Lakers, who have lost 10 o f
their last 12 in Portland, fell to fifth in
the Westem Conference, a half-game
behind the Houston Rockets.
Portland, coming off a surprising
home loss to the Los Angeles Clip­
pers, continued its bid to become the
first team in NBA history to go a
season without losing two in a row.
Brian G rant had 13 points and
e ig h t re b o u n d s , J a c k s o n and
W allace had 12 points, W alt W ill­
iams added 11 and Kelvin Cato had
10 for the Blazers.
" P o rtla n d ju st
plays well and hard,
and
e v e ry b o d y
April 30, 1998, when the Lakers
com es to p la y ,"
eliminated the Blazers with a 110-99
O'Neal said ." They
win at Rose Garden. It was the sec­
don't do anything
ond straight year Los A ngeles
special. They just
bounced the Blazers 3-1 in the first
never give u p ."
round, and Portland's sixth straight
The teams face
first-round loss.
each o th e r three
more times.
"We n e e d to
play hard and quit
talking about play­
ing hard," O'Neal
added. " If we play
to g e th e r , I s till
think we can beat
this team."
Portland put the
game away in the
se c o n d q u a rte r,
outscoring the Lak­
ers 27-15 to take a
58-37 halftime lead.
The Lakers shot just
20 percent in the
quarter, and seemed
to sta n d aro u n d
Portland Trailblazers floor leaders put the Lakers to
much o f the time
sleep.
B y L andon H all
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The
Portland Trail Blazers did more than
just beat the Los Angeles Lakers.
They humbled them.
Portland built an early lead and
didn't look back Tuesday night, hand­
ing the Lakers their worst loss o f the
season in the long-awaited first meet­
ing between the top teams on the
West Coast.
"No doubt, they are better right
now," said Los Angeles coach Kurt
Rambis, who watched his team show
all the bad traits — lack o f hustle,
discipline and heart — that has made
the Lakers so hard to figure out.
"Their big guys w eren't run­
ning the floor, and we took advan­
tage o f th a t," said P o rtla n d 's
Rasheed Wallace. "Our shots were
falling from all over W e were
running the floor, getting dunks
and hitting the 3s."
Damon Stoudamire and Isaiah
Rider led seven players in double
figures with 16 points each for the
Blazers, who played the Lakers for
the first time since being eliminated
by them in the first round o f the
playoffs last April.
Shaquille O'Neal had 24 points
and 13 rebounds for the Lakers, who
dropped 5 1/2 games behind Port­
land in the Pacific Division. Kobe
Bryant had 20 points and seven re­
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