Los Angeles Lakers vs Memphis Grizzlies – FULL GAME HIGHLIGHTS | October 31, 2025 NBA Cup

Oh yeah. Welcome to the Emirates NBA Cup with coverage on prime presented by Wing Stop. It’s the Grizzlies and the Lakers in the second half of our double header and we are underway. 34 points per game this season. Mor inside. Landale got the easy doo play at a fast pace and they turn it over. Smart Reeves running the floor. Smart will take it himself and the Lakers are on the board. [Music] Jackson stops, pops, and hits. Three-pointer. Slow start to him so far from the three-point line. Smart throwing it up to eight. around a Jackson screen surrounded by white jerseys. Pull up at the free throw line. Here’s defense where they’re trying to negotiate whether to switch or not. There’s a little gap and Jaw knocks down the mid-range. Oh, reach the crossover and the reverse. Backing down KCP. Pull up Jay. Well, short got his own and got the hoop. We have a two-point ball game. Corner three. Jackson Hajimura. The pump. The drive. Kicks out to Donic. Five on the shot clock. Step back. Corn. This in the three games with no Donic or LeBron James. Cedric Coward. The rookie got a reverse on the other end. And how about lobbing it up. Deflected out of there by Williams. Great defensive play both ends. Spencer for three. Yes. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Good defense by Coward to cut off Lorabia. Donic for three. Bottoms. Here’s Reeves. Got it back from Vanderbilt on the drive in the lane. Contact bucket and the foul. Rebound and good extra pass as Marcus Martin knows the shooter is to his right and connect unable to do so. Red making it rain. Grizzlies with a one-point advantage. How about that feed? Hayes outside. Connect again. Missed again and tapped out to Smart. Good effort by Jackson Hayes. Lorabia to the cup. On the roll. There’s going to be a smaller player that he can punish and Smarts hitting on the turnaround. Quad contusion makes it a five-point advantage for LA. Mor step throw and finishes with the left. Three-point lead for the Lakers. Aiden in the lane. Easy terama [Applause] for three. Go. Much needed for Memphis. Donic with 15 in the ball game as we near the midway mark of the second quarter. Williams 4846. Donis behind the back. Oh, that’s stealing candy. Surrounded kick out. Spencer penetrating. Kar three ball pocket. Jackson Odama KCP and the rookie coward. Here’s KCP for three. The Grizzly Jackson sees a double. Odama over to Wells in the corner. Good. These lineups that it’s it’s tough for the Lakers to to get back into the flow for a lot of these guys who play roles. Oh, well, beautiful step through. It’s Memphis 65, LA 50. 90 seconds to go in the second quarter. Smart Lakers two and 0 on the road so far this young season. Grizzlies two and one at home. Dons taking his time. That was a pass to Jackson Hayes. Hayes will get it back to Dantes. Dons for three. That’s good. This Laker defense work like they did in that second quarter. Hayes outside to Reed for three. Boom. Averaging nearly 19 turnovers a game. They have 11 so far. Landel for three. Yes. In the court to feed players. Big guys getting caught. Hamura from deep. Lakers on a 155 run. Dodges. Yes. Routine as a kiddo. taking dinner upstairs, sitting next to his granddad, watching a game before going back downstairs to get ready for bed for school in the morning. He’ll cherish that even more. Approach out there on the court. It’s a great mentality for a rookie. Don has a 30piece. Loving it up drawing the big out from the hole underneath the basket and over the top to his target in Jackson Hayes. Spencer after a three-game absence going to work here. Dantes the pump fires and hits. Coward surveying the floor. He’ll take his time. Aldama with it on the drive. Flips it up and in. 17 Lakers points. Kchar on the drive. Cwell Pope is lonely. Hits the tray. Connects. Finds a cutting Lavia outside. Smart won’t take the three. He’ll drive. The floater is good. Smart in double figures. Mor tossing it up. Landel in a quarter that began with a 14-point lead for the Grizzlies. Kchaw. Yes. Slapped out of there. Connect has time. Two seconds. Connect down the lane. Got it to go at the hole. Get some production from their guards here to start the quarter. Landel turnaround blocked from behind from deep front iron offensive rebound. Vanderbilt hand off. Here’s Reeves. Yes. Lorabia in and out dribble stops inside and flips it up and through. Count it and put him on the line. Wow. for Duchess. [Music] Spencer left open. Breeze on the drive. Lost it out to Hatchima from downtown. Bullseye. Donic finds a cutting. Hayes outside to connect. Shot clock winding down. Donic. Target practice. I mean, what do you do, baby? I mean, we can appreciate it, but Smart. Oh, right down the lane. Little resistance. 11-point advantage. Coward the poke away. Coward flips it up. Thought he was going to throw the for the Miami Heat. [Music] [Applause] Don turns inside. Two more. 42. Adept at drawing fouls. Both controlling the tempo in high pick and roll. So Lakers in the driver’s seat here. Pick your poison. No. And we got a foul. It’s going against the Grizzlies. Jackson upset with the call. Is this one slipping away? That is five fouls now on Jiren Jackson Jr. And I would say I want to look at that, but you could see Jiren Jackson Jr. the right arm just getting on top of Ruie and waiting on Zack Edy, Ty Jerome, Brandon Clark, another key reserve, Scotty Pippen Jr. Here’s Jackson got the runner to go. Grizzlies have to move quickly. Alama caught inside. Throws it to Wells. Wells bucket and the foul. Got both. He has 44 on the night. Wells. Quick trigger. Knock down the track. Closing out this one. Wells a step back and he’ll cap this game off with the flush. [Applause] Grizzlies going to fall to 1 and8 all time in NBA Cup play.

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  13. Trade Lebron , his toxic ways will kill this chemistry and make the season a dumpster fire like he’s done every year for the last 5 years . Luka and Reaves got it .

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