The Lakers will try to complete a sweep of their three-game season series against the Memphis Grizzlies Sunday at Crypto.com Arena.<\/p>\n
The Lakers defeated Memphis 128-121 Friday night at Crypto.com Arena with Luka Doncic scoring a game-high 34 points and LeBron James adding 31.<\/p>\n
In a game with 10 lead changes and six ties, the Grizzlies took what would be their final lead with 6:08 to play on Jaren Jackson Jr.\u2019s driving layup.<\/p>\n
The Lakers responded with a 12-2 run, which included 3-point baskets by Jarred Vanderbilt and Jake LaRavia, to take a 121-112 lead with 1:57 left. They led by at least seven the rest of the game.<\/p>\n
LaRavia (21), Marcus Smart (13) and Jaxon Hayes (12) also finished in double figures for the Lakers (22-11), who had lost four of their previous five games.<\/p>\n
Jackson led six players in double figures for Memphis (15-19) with 25 in front of a sellout crowd of 18,997.<\/p>\n
The Lakers defeated the Grizzlies 117-112 Oct. 31 at Memphis.<\/p>\n
Lakers guard Gabe Vincent (lumbar back strain) missed his seventh consecutive game, guard Austin Reeves (left calf sprain) his third and forward Rui Hachimura (right calf soreness) his second.<\/p>\n
Rookie forward Adou Thiero was sidelined by a right MCL sprain he suffered Tuesday. He will be re-evaluated by team doctors in approximately four weeks, the team announced Wednesday. Thiero is averaging 1.3 points per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lakers will try to complete a sweep of their three-game season series against the Memphis Grizzlies Sunday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[71661,7,1335,294,300,2929,293,177,4070,6,1564],"class_list":["post-514324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-memphis-grizzlies","tag-128-121","tag-basketball","tag-carries","tag-grizzlies","tag-lakers","tag-late","tag-memphis","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-memphisgrizzlies","tag-nba","tag-victory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115832389914627842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}