Isaiah Roby scored a career-high 30 points (12 in the first quarter), and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Portland Trail Blazers 134-131 in overtime.
Isaiah Roby made a pull-up 3-pointer on a pass from Aleksej Pokusevski with 6.2 seconds left in the fourth quarter to tie it at 115, and the Thunder outscored the Trail Blazers 19-16 in overtime.
Theo Maledon’s reverse layup with 16.8 seconds left in overtime made it 130-126. The Trail Blazers had the ball down 3, but Brandon Williams missed a 61-foot 3-pointer at the buzzer that would have tied it.
During clutch time, the Thunder outscored the Trail Blazers 25-23. Roby scored 13 of the Thunder’s 25 on 4 for 5 shooting and 3 for 4 at the line. In the fourth quarter and overtime, Pokusevski had 8 of his 11 assists, 1 of them on a basket by Roby that tied the game. In that stretch, Keon Johnson had 3 of his 4 steals, and the Trail Blazers scored 3 points off them.
Aaron Wiggins had a career-high 28 points (14 in the paint) and 6 assists, and Maledon added 23 points and a career-high 10 rebounds. The Thunder had 3 20-point scorers and 7 players in double-digit scoring.
For the Trail Blazers, Ben McLemore scored 28 points with 8 3-pointers off the bench, and Drew Eubanks added a career-high 27 points, 14 rebounds and 3 steals on 12 for 14 shooting. Williams had 25 points, a career-high 12 assists and 4 steals. The Trail Blazers had 3 20-point scorers.
The Thunder shot 53.3% from the field and 44.4% from 3 to the Trail Blazers’ 45.5% and 40.0%. The Thunder made 20 3-pointers, 4 of them by Roby and 4 by Maledon. The Trail Blazers made 20 3-pointers, 8 of them by McLemore and 5 by Williams.