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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) _ Arvydas Sabonis scored 23 points as the Portland Trail Blazers held onto the NBA's best record by beating the Los Angeles Clippers 107-100 on Wednesday night.

Steve Smith added 17 points for the Blazers, who won their 11th straight home game and improved to 38-11 overall.

Maurice Taylor led the Clippers with 23 points and Troy Hudson added 22.

Hudson scored 16 on 4-of-5 3-point shooting in the first quarter as the Clippers took a 38-20 lead. The Blazers trailed by as many as 18 in the second quarter and 10 at halftime before starting the third quarter with a 16-2 run.

A reverse layup by Brian Skinner pulled the Clippers within 93-92 with 3:26 to go. A 22-foot jumper by Taylor pulled the Clippers within 99-96, and a dunk by Taylor cut it to 101-98 with 44 seconds left, but they couldn't get any closer.

Rasheed Wallace had 15 points and 13 rebounds for the Blazers, and Detlef Schrempf added 15 points.

The Clippers have lost five in a row and 15 of 16. They fell to 0-3 under interim coach Jim Todd, who stepped in when Chris Ford was fired last Thursday.

The Blazers turned it around in the third after trailing 55-45 at halftime.

Sabonis had 15 points in the quarter, and his dunk tied it at 57. Wallace gave the Blazers their first lead at 59-57 with a turnaround jumper with 7:03 left in the third. Los Angeles didn't quit, and a 3-pointer by Hudson at the buzzer put the Clippers up 79-77.

The Blazers didn't have any turnovers in the third quarter after committing nine in the first half.

The Clippers ran out to a quick lead, capitalizing on seven Blazers turnovers in the first quarter. Hudson's third 3-pointer put Los Angeles up 29-16.

The Blazers came back in the second quarter. Damon Stoudamire, who sat at the end of the Blazers' bench sulking with his jersey off after coach Mike Dunleavy put Greg Anthony in to guard Hudson, hit a deep jumper, and Schrempf sank two free throws to cut it to a 10-point deficit.

Wallace hit a bank shot with just under a minute left to cut the lead to 50-45, but the Clippers pushed the lead back to 10 points as Lamar Odom hit a wide-open 3-pointer and Eric Piatkowski hit a fast-break layup.

Notes: The Clippers fell to 0-3 to the Blazers this season after losing the first two games by a combined 40 points. ... Portland gave up 100 points only three times in its first 47 games but the Blazers have allowed 100 their last two games. Portland escaped Milwaukee with a 115-111 win Monday. ... Wallace has scored in double-figures in 43 of his last 45 games. ... Odom had 16 points to break out of a three-game funk, in which he averaged just 6.7 points and 3.7 rebounds.