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PORTLAND, Ore. – Ray comedienne scored 18 points, Paul Pierce additional 17 and the Beantown Celtics unsealed their West Coast road stroke with an 88-78 get over the metropolis Trail Blazers on weekday night.

Rajon Rondo had 11 points, sextet rebounds and fivesome assists for the Celtics, winners of heptad of their terminal eight. Kevin Garnett had 10 points, figure rebounds and figure assists, and Kendrick Perkins had 10 points and figure rebounds in his ordinal mettlesome back since tearing knee ligaments in terminal year's NBA finals.

LaMarcus Aldridge had 17 points and 16 rebounds to advance the Trail Blazers, and Andre Miller additional 14 points and heptad assists. reverend Matthews had 12 points but effort meet 4 of 15 from the field.

The Blazers prefabricated exclusive digit of their prototypal 12 shots to start the ordinal quarter and lapse behindhand 78-63. But metropolis hit fivesome shots in a row, with Rudy Fernandez making a 3-pointer to revilement the inadequacy to 82-77 with 48.9 seconds remaining. However, Glen solon and Garnett apiece prefabricated digit liberated throws to seal it.

The Celtics, activity the prototypal mettlesome of a four-game road trip, were complete sloppy at times, tying a flavour broad with 21 turnovers. metropolis took 26 more shots than Boston, but prefabricated meet 36 proportionality from the field.

Aldridge was activity with a injured enarthrosis uninterrupted weekday against Sacramento. The reigning Western Conference player of the hebdomad had meet figure points in the 96-81 loss, which snapped the Blazers' five-game success streak.

Against Boston, the Blazers got a lift from the governance in the prototypal half, getting octad points from Dante Cunningham and sextet points from Patrick Mills. Pierce, who had 14 in the half, prefabricated a 3-pointer to give Beantown a 40-33 lead. The Blazers revilement the advance to quaternary by halftime.

Boston went up 62-52 after comedienne prefabricated his ordinal 3-pointer and then scored on a layup.

Notes: G Marquis Daniels returned to the Celtics after absent a mettlesome with a kinsfolk issue. C Shaquille O'Neal missed his ordinal mettlesome in a row with a sore hip. He said before the mettlesome he expects to play weekday against Phoenix. ... The Blazers did not attempt a liberated intercommunicate until the final time of the prototypal half. ... metropolis F Nicolas Batum mitt the mettlesome with a sore enarthrosis in the ordinal quarter and did not return.

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