The Lakers (21-11) defeated Memphis (15-19), 128-121, on Friday at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California.<\/p>\n
Former Vol Dalton Knecht <\/a>committed one turnover in 11 minutes for the Lakers. He attempted two field goal attempts and two three-point attempts. Knecht did not score for Los Angeles.<\/p>\n Luka Doncic scored 34 points, while LeBron James finished with 31 points for the Lakers.<\/p>\n Knecht was selected in the first round of the\u00a02024 NBA draft<\/a>\u00a0(No. 17) by Los Angeles.<\/p>\n He transferred to Tennessee from Northern Colorado and played for the Vols during the 2023-24 season under head coach\u00a0Rick Barnes<\/a>.<\/p>\n During his one season at Tennessee, Knecht averaged 21.7 points, 4.9 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game. He led the Vols to a SEC regular-season championship and an appearance in the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight for a second time in school history.<\/p>\n Los Angeles will next play Jan. 4 versus the Grizzlies. Tipoff is slated for 9:30 p.m. EST at Crypto.com Arena.<\/p>\n Follow Vols Wire on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0X<\/a>\u00a0(formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lakers (21-11) defeated Memphis (15-19), 128-121, on Friday at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California. Former Vol…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,5954,1250,3437,294,5955,293,177,4070,318,6,425,716,689,2721,713,3725,2716],"class_list":["post-516029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-memphis-grizzlies","tag-basketball","tag-dalton","tag-dalton-knecht","tag-facebook","tag-grizzlies","tag-knecht","tag-memphis","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-memphisgrizzlies","tag-mens","tag-nba","tag-smg","tag-smg-timely","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-volunteers-mens-basketball","tag-timely","tag-twitter","tag-volunteers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115836837181165700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516029","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=516029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}