MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Portland point guard Damian Lillard scored a game-high 33 points as the Trail Blazers defeated the Memphis Grizzlies 112-106 in overtime Monday night at FedExForum.
Lillard made 10 of Portland’s 14 successful free throws on the night, including two late in overtime. The Trail Blazers outscored Memphis 10-4 in overtime. Guard CJ McCollum finished with 21 points, six assists and three steals, and he scored six points in the overtime period.
Portland (26-27) trailed 102-100 with 7.6 seconds left in the fourth quarter and got off three shots — the last a successful tip-in by forward Allen Crabbe (13 points) with one-10th of a second left to tie the score and send the game into overtime.
The score was tied 18 times overall, and neither team led by more than six points.
Point guard Mike Conley led Memphis with a season-high 27 points. Power forward Zach Randolph tied his season high with 26 points and also had nine rebounds and four assists.
The score was tied 78-78 after three quarters as Memphis backup point guard Mario Chalmers (12 points) knocked down a buzzer-beating trey. Randolph carried the Grizzlies (30-22) in the third, scoring 14 of the team’s 29 points.
Memphis center Marc Gasol left the game in the first half with a right mid-foot injury and did not return. He finished with 11 points, three rebounds and two assists in 11 minute. Forward Jeff Green chipped in 12 points and six rebounds off the bench.
The Blazers shot 49.4 percent from the field and hit 10 of 29 from long range (34.5 percent). Memphis shot 50 percent from the floor and went 7-for-19 from behind the arc (36.8 percent).
Three Portland bench players scored in double figures: Crabbe, guard Gerald Henderson (16 points) and forward Maurice Harkless (11 points).
The Blazers beat Memphis on points in the paint 52-46.
Lillard had 20 points by halftime, and the Blazers led 51-49 at the break. Portland shot 54.1 percent in the first half, and the Grizzlies shot 50 percent.
Conley led Memphis with 15 first-half points, all in the second quarter.
NOTES: PF Zach Randolph posted his sixth 20-point and 10-rebound performance of the season Saturday in Memphis’ overtime loss to Dallas. Since the start of the 2003-04 season, Randolph has more 20-point, 10-rebound games (265) than any other NBA player aside from Dwight Howard (300). “He has a knack of getting shots off, getting rebounds, getting his own rebound,” Portland coach Terry Stotts said. … Memphis C Marc Gasol was listed as questionable on the pregame injury report due to a sore right foot, but was in the starting lineup Monday. “He was playing on one leg,” Grizzlies coach Dave Joerger said of Gasol’s 22-point game Saturday against the Mavericks. … Portland PG Damian Lillard is tied for sixth in the league in scoring at 24.0 points per game and is seventh in assists with 7.3. … The Trail Blazers’ bench outscored the opponents’ bench for the 12th time in 15 games.
