BOSTON -- This time around, it was the “Bosnian Beast” who made the big shot.
Trail Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic capped off yet another impressive performance with a go-ahead hook shot off an offensive rebound with 13.1 seconds to play to lift Portland to a 109-105 victory versus the Celtics in front of a sellout crowd of 19,156 at TD Garden in Boston Friday night.
“We just were so resilient,” said Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups. “We had so many guys play well in the game. They couldn’t control Nurk.”
The Trail Blazers are now 19-26 overall and 5-15 on the road this season.