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LOS ANGELES (AP) Derek Anderson scored 18 points and Jeff McInnis got 11 of his 16 points in the fourth quarter, leading the Portland Trail Blazers to an 88-85 preseason victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday night.
Zach Randolph had 11 points and 12 rebounds for Portland (2-1). Center Dale Davis, who missed the first two exhibition games due to a sore groin muscle, had four points and four rebounds in 22 minutes. Ruben Patterson had five points in 24 minutes after missing Thursday night's game because of a sore left Achilles' tendon.
Clippers No. 1 draft pick Chris Kaman, who got off to a late start in training camp because of back problems, scored 10 consecutive points in a 4{-minute span in the fourth and finished with 17 in his NBA debut while playing 21 minutes. Tremaine Fowlkes sat out because of a sprained right knee.
Neither team led by more than six until the Trail Blazers scored eight consecutive points in a 56-second span, including a pair of 3-pointers by Jerald Honeycutt that helped them take a 76-68 lead with 7:14 remaining.
Kaman, who missed the preseason opener because of a strained left calf, cut the deficit to four with back-to-back layups. But McInnis sank two free throws at the other end, then made it 80-72 with a layup after teammate Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje swatted away an attempted driving layup by Bobby Simmons.
Portland made only one field goal the rest of the way, but still managed to hang on.
Keyon Dooling's layup pulled Los Angeles (0-2) within 87-85 with 10 seconds left. McInnis made one of two free throws with 7.2 seconds to go, giving the Clippers one last chance to tie. But Simmons' off-balance 3-point attempt from the left corner was short of the rim as time expired.