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Simons, Smith Jr. Impress In Preseason Loss To Kings

The Portland Trail Blazers once again relied on considerable scoring from their guards to stay afloat Monday night. But this time around it wasn’t Damian and CJ, it was Anfernee and Dennis.

With the Trail Blazers sitting four-fifths of their starting lineup and eight players in total, Anfernee Simons and Dennis Smith Jr. combined to score 42 points in Portland’s 107-93 preseason loss to the Sacramento Kings in front of a crowd of 12,107 Monday night at Moda Center.

“I thought we got accomplished what we wanted to from the standpoint of letting a lot of players play that haven’t played,” said Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups.