{"id":514586,"date":"2026-01-03T20:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/514586\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:22:12","slug":"lakers-defeat-memphis-at-crypto-com-arena-with-growing-injury-list-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/514586\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers Defeat Memphis at Crypto.com Arena With Growing Injury List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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<p>The Lakers defeated the Grizzlies on Friday thanks in part to three-pointers by Jarred Vanderbilt and Jake LaRavia during a late run resulting in a 128-121 final score at Crypto.com Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis had taken a 110-109 lead with 6:08 to play on Jaren Jackson\u2019s driving layup. But they were then outscored 12-2, in front of a sellout crowd of 18,997.<\/p>\n<p>Luka Doncic scored a game-high 34 points to lead five players in double figures for the Lakers (22-11), who had lost four of their previous five games.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson led the Grizzlies (15-19) with 25.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>Sunday\u2019s game starts at 6:30 p.m.<\/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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[900,7,71655,25730,294,12506,1035,300,2513,293,177,4070,6],"class_list":["post-514586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-memphis-grizzlies","tag-arena","tag-basketball","tag-crypto-com","tag-defeat","tag-grizzlies","tag-growing","tag-injury","tag-lakers","tag-list","tag-memphis","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-memphisgrizzlies","tag-nba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115833034791730658","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514586","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=514586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}