EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — The Los Angeles Lakers got outscored by 27 from three-point range and still found a way to win Sunday.

They can thank Anthony Davis.

The LA center dominated by the basket with 30 points as the Lakers held off the Portland Trail Blazers, 116-110, at Crypto.com Arena.

LeBron James sat out because of a bruised calf, leaving the Lakers without a full roster yet again. And it didn’t help that they made only four three-pointers on 19 attempts for a mere 21.1%.

But Davis was back to his expected dominance — and had to be without James — after not looking quite like himself while struggling with hip spams over the last week.

Portland closed within one with 5:03 to play, only to be rebuffed by Davis. He scored on a fade-away, a tip-in and also found Rui Hachimura for an easy basket down low. All in all, he scored nine points in the fourth quarter.

Besides all his scoring, Davis added 13 rebounds, six assists and three blocked shots in 41 minutes.

“It’s Anthony Davis,” Lakers guard Austin Reaves said. “Any time you’ve got Anthony Davis, you’ve got a chance. He changes the game so many different ways the stat sheet doesn’t even show.”

It wasn’t pretty, as Davis would acknowledge. The Lakers were also without Gabe Vincent (sore knee) and Jarred Vanderbilt (heel bursitis), but Davis knew what was expected of him without James in uniform.

“That’s why we have each other,” Davis told Spectrum SportsNet. “When I miss a game, he knows what he has to do. When he misses a game, I know what I have to do.”

Davis helped the Lakers outscore Portland in the paint, 68-48.

Davis was the main reason for the Lakers’ victory, but he wasn’t the only one. Cam Reddish was solid again in his second consecutive start, finishing with 18 points on succinct seven-for-10 shooting. Hachimura (19 points) was also a factor while starting in place of James.

“A Rui with an aggressive mentality is the Rui we all prefer,” Lakers coach Darvin Ham said. “The common denominator is him being aggressive and assertive and active on both ends of the ball.”

The Lakers trailed at halftime, 57-56, and remained the only team without a halftime lead all season. Reddish rolled over his strong game Friday into a solid first half Sunday, scoring 16 points.

But LA had trouble stopping Matisse Thybulle in the first half. The Portland swingman scored 14 points in the half, including four three-pointers, despite averaging only 5.4 points a game before Sunday.

The Lakers seemed to take control with a 35-point third quarter, but Portland would not go away. It helped that the Trail Blazers were much more effective from the three-point range, making 13 of 37 from deep.

The Lakers improved to 5-5 but could definitely use more accuracy behind the arc.

“Guys are still figuring out their rhythms in terms of the synergy with one another,” Ham said. “We encourage our guys [that] if you’re open, shoot it.”

James sat on the bench in street clothes Sunday, unavailable to play after Kevin Durant accidentally kneed him in the shin in Friday’s game.

Ham said the Lakers were “just being proactive” by sitting James.

“No reason to run him in the ground this early but it’s an opportunity where he can get some treatment, not force it. So he's day-to-day he definitely won’t be in [Sunday]," Ham said.

James’ next chance to play is Tuesday against Memphis in the Lakers’ second game of the NBA’s in-season tournament. Their win over Phoenix put them at 1-0 in pool play of Western Conference Group A.