Anternee Simons got 25 points and Portland Trail Blazers published the largest winning margin in franchise history with a steam roll of 141-88 of the visiting Charlotte Hornets on Saturday evening.
Toumani Camara recorded 20 points, 10 returns and six assists and Shaedon Sharpe scored 20 points from the bench when Portland surpassed its 50-point victory over Cleveland Cavaliers, 129-79, November 21, 1982.
Reserve Jabari Walker added seasonal colleges of 20 points and 14 returns, Deni Avdija scored 15 points and Scoot Henderson had 13 of the bench for Trail Blazers, who snapped a four-game losing line while continuing his long-term home dominance by Charlotte.
Hornets has lost 16 of its last 17 visits to Portland with the lone victory since 2008 that occurred last season. Overall, Charlotte is 7-28 all the time in Portland.
Miles Bridges got 17 points for Hornets, while Charlotte star Lamelo Ball had only five points on 1-of-10 shooting.
Nick Smith Jr. Scored 14 points, Jusuf Nurkic had 11 points and eight returns from the bench and Mark Williams had 10 points for Charlotte. Hornets has dropped 13 of its last 16 games.
Trail Blazers shot a fantastic 58.6 percent from the field, including 20 out of 43 from 3-point intervals. Portland set a season high for points, checked the boards 57-37 and saw their lead stop of 55 points.
Charlotte made 34.7 percent of her shots and was low 15.6 percent (5 out of 32) behind the bow while he fell to 1-5 in his distance of nine consecutive road games at both ends of the All-Star break.
Portland opened the game with a 16-4 Burst and led 38-21 after the opening quarter.
Sharpe met a 3-pointer to make it 48-27 with 7:46 left during the first half. Trail Blazers closed half with a 19-3 wave to lead 73-40.
Simons got Portland’s last nine points in half to finish to lead all scores with 22 points at the break. Bridges had 10 points for Charlotte.
The attack continued during the third quarter when Trail Blazers used a 17-4 spurt to take a lead of 101-57 with 3:31 left in the third quarter. Sharpe culminated running with a 3-pointer.
The point was 109-66 into the fourth quarter, and Portland continued its annihilation of Hornets by getting 32 points, Blazer’s lowest quarter’s total sum of the game.
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