Trail Blazers, 47.5-cent underdogs on Kalshi, beat Lakers 136-129
What's new Portland Trail Blazers beat Los Angeles Lakers 136-129 on Oct. 28 at crypto.com Arena, according to ESPN game data.
Why it matters Before the start, Kalshi traders priced a Portland Trail Blazers win at 47.5¢ a share and a Los Angeles Lakers win at 52.5¢; a price in cents reads as the market's implied chance in percent, so the result went against the market's favorite.
Final score: Portland Trail Blazers 136, Los Angeles Lakers 129. The game started at Oct. 28, 3:00 a.m. UTC, ESPN's data shows.
Kalshi's market on a Portland Trail Blazers win showed a bid of 47¢ and an ask of 48¢ (mid 47.5¢) at Oct. 28, 2:45 a.m. UTC, the last PostNewz snapshot before the start; the Los Angeles Lakers market's mid was 52.5¢ at Oct. 28, 2:45 a.m. UTC. Kalshi settled the Portland Trail Blazers market yes on Oct. 28.
ESPN's standings as of Nov. 4 list Portland Trail Blazers at 5-1 in Western Conference (playoff seed 3) and Los Angeles Lakers at 6-2 in Western Conference (playoff seed 4).
The 7-point margin compares with 10 other finals of the two teams in PostNewz's game table since Oct. 22, the largest of which was decided by 22.
Records: sports_games #118 (ESPN), market_snapshots #158691 and #158692 (Kalshi, before the start), market_results KXNBAGAME-26OCT27PORLAL-LAL and KXNBAGAME-26OCT27PORLAL-POR, sports_standings #30406 and #30407.
Room for disagreement
A pre-game price is the market's reading of the chances, not a forecast by PostNewz, and one game is a single outcome: a 47.5¢ price still leaves room for a Portland Trail Blazers win.
About the data
Every figure in this story is read from PostNewz's sports_games, market_snapshots, market_results and sports_standings tables (17 rows read Nov 4, 9:36 PM UTC): Final score Portland Trail Blazers 136, Los Angeles Lakers 129 (sports_games #118, ESPN JSON fetched 2026-10-30 14:16 UTC); Kalshi pre-game mids 47.5¢ (KXNBAGAME-26OCT27PORLAL-POR, market_snapshots #158691) and 52.5¢ (KXNBAGAME-26OCT27PORLAL-LAL, market_snapshots #158692), the last snapshots before the 2026-10-28 03:00 UTC start (spreads 10¢ or less); settlement: KXNBAGAME-26OCT27PORLAL-LAL no, KXNBAGAME-26OCT27PORLAL-POR yes (market_results); standings: sports_standings #30406 (2026-11-04), #30407 (2026-11-04). Written by code from those rows (pncover2-pnj-v19, game result story; no model prose); neutrality check passed. All dates and times are UTC.