{"id":570270,"date":"2026-01-30T07:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/570270\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T07:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T07:04:16","slug":"preview-wizards-host-lakers-on-friday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/570270\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: Wizards host Lakers on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Washington Wizards play the Los Angeles Lakers tomorrow. Let\u2019s preview this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When: Tuesday, Jan. 30 at 7 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Where: Capital One Arena, Washington, DC<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">How to watch: Monumental Sports Network, League Pass<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Injuries: For the Wizards, Bilal Coulibaly (back), Tristan Vukcevic (hamstring), Marvin Bagley (back), Trae Young (knee, quad) and Cam Whitmore (shoulder) are out. Tre Johnson is day-to-day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For the Lakers, Austin Reaves (calf) and Adou Thiero (knee) are out. Luka Doncic is day-to-day due to an ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So, this winter storm has forced many to miss school for an entire week here in the DMV. Kids are happy. Teachers are happier. Parents who aren\u2019t teachers are wondering when the temperatures hit 32 degrees Fahrenheit again. Either way, I hope you are all enjoying the days off if you had the chance to do that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Anyway, let\u2019s talk about the Lakers, who are in the middle of a long road trip, and are coming off a 129-99 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers, LeBron James\u2019 previous team \u2026 twice over. Still, LA is 28-18 and will be the overwhelming favorites tomorrow whether James and Doncic play together or not. That said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bulletsforever.com\/washington-wizards-recaps\/67724\/wizards-vs-bucks-final-score-washington-beats-milwaukee-again-109-99\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">didn\u2019t the Wizards beat the Milwaukee Bucks just under a couple hours ago<\/a> as of the time this post got published? You never know guys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Wizards play the Los Angeles Lakers tomorrow. Let\u2019s preview this. When: Tuesday, Jan. 30 at 7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[7,6,682,468,53634,3892,683],"class_list":{"0":"post-570270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-wizards","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-washington","11":"tag-washington-wizards","12":"tag-washington-wizards-game-preview","13":"tag-washingtonwizards","14":"tag-wizards"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115982779357952021","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570270","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=570270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}