SAN ANTONIO—Damian Lillard scored a career-high 43 points, including 16 after regulation, and the Portland Trail Blazers handed the San Antonio Spurs their second straight defeat in triple overtime by rallying for a 129-119 victory on Friday night.
LaMarcus Aldridge had 32 points and 16 rebounds, and Wesley Matthews added 16 points as Portland (21-6) extended its winning streak to four games. Lillard scored the first nine points in the third overtime.
Tim Duncan had 32 points and 10 rebounds, and Danny Green added 27 points for San Antonio.
The Spurs dropped their two previous home games by a combined three points, including a 117-116 loss in triple overtime to Memphis on Wednesday.
It was the first time a team has played consecutive triple-overtime games since the Baltimore Bullets did so in December 1951.
In Cleveland LeBron James scored 22 points and Mike Miller, making his first start of the season, added 21 on seven three-pointers to lead Cleveland over Brooklyn, 95-91.
James, who moved into 23rd place on the career scoring list, scored eight points in the fourth quarter, as the Cavaliers bounced back from their biggest loss of the season on Wednesday against Atlanta.
Joe Johnson led the Nets with 26 points. Brooklyn guard Deron Williams limped off the court in the second quarter with a strained right calf and didn’t return.
Brooklyn cut an eight-point lead to 94-91 on Johnson’s three-pointer with 41 seconds remaining. The Cavaliers committed a turnover, but Kevin Garnett missed a contested three-pointer and James split two free throws with 1.3 seconds left.
Jimmy Butler scored 31 points, Nikola Mirotic added a season-best 27 and Chicago snapped Memphis’s six-game winning streak, 103-97.
Butler went 11-of-21 from the field and Mirotic connected on all six of his shots beyond the arc, setting a season standard for three-pointers. Aaron Brooks scored 17 points and Joakim Noah finished with 10 points and 13 rebounds. Butler also had 10 rebounds as the Bulls outrebounded the Grizzlies, 51-45.
Mike Conley led Memphis with 21 points. Beno Udrih had 15 before leaving with a hand injury in the fourth quarter.
The Grizzlies shot 39 percent.
Elsewhere in the National Basketball Association on Friday, it was Charlotte 109, Philadelphia 91; Utah 101, Orlando 94; Washington 105, Miami 103; Toronto 110, Detroit 100; Boston 114, Minnesota 98; Chicago 103, Memphis 97; and Denver 109, LA Clippers 106.