Doncic leads the way as LA Lakers beat the 142-111, while New \u200dYork Knicks overcome Portland Trail Blazers 127-97.<\/p>\n
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Luka Doncic has recorded his sixth triple-double \u200cof the season with 37 points, leading three Los Angeles scorers by \u200dat least 20 \u200dpoints as the visiting Lakers rolled past the Washington Wizards 142-111.<\/p>\n
Doncic showed no ill effects from the injury he sustained when falling off Cleveland\u2019s elevated court, reaching a triple-double by halftime with 26 \u2060points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds on Friday. The guard finished with 13 assists and 11 \u200bboards and added three steals.<\/p>\n
With Doncic setting the tone, Los \u200dAngeles quickly took control of the game, going on a 9-0 run midway through the first quarter to lead 20-11. That early burst gave the Lakers a lead they never lost, and \u200dthey continued to \u2060build on it for the next 40-plus minutes.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles\u2019 Deandre Ayton posted 28 points and a game-high 13 rebounds, while LeBron James chipped in 20 points and six assists.<\/p>\n
Each of the trio shot at least 50% from the floor to power the Lakers to a torrid 52-of-85 (61.2%) field-goal shooting as a team.<\/p>\n
The prolific offensive attack led Los Angeles to their second-highest scoring performance \u200bof the season, just one game after the Lakers \u200cexperienced their most lopsided defeat of the campaign, a 30-point setback against the Cavaliers.<\/p>\n
The blowout denied Washington in their season-long quest to string together three straight wins. The Wizards came in with back-to-back victories \u200cover the Portland Trail Blazers and the Milwaukee Bucks, but they had no answer for the initial Los Angeles onslaught.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Karl-Anthony Towns posted another double-double \u200cwith 14 points and 20 rebounds for the New \u200dYork Knicks, \u200dwho continued surging with a wire-to-wire 127-97 win over the visiting Portland Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n
It was the second straight 20-rebound game for Towns, who lead the NBA in rebounding at 11.8 boards per \u2060game. Towns pulled down a season-high 22 rebounds in New York\u2019s 119-92 win \u200bover the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday. He has 31 double-doubles \u200dthis season.<\/p>\n
Jalen Brunson scored a team-high 26 points for the Knicks, who ended the month with five straight wins following a 2-9 skid that began on December 31. \u200dNew York allowed fewer \u2060than 100 points in four of the five victories.<\/p>\n
Starters OG Anunoby (24 points), Josh Hart (20) and Mikal Bridges (10) all got into double figures for the Knicks. Tyler Kolek had 13 points off the bench while fellow reserve Mohamed Diawara added 10 points.<\/p>\n
Shaedon Sharpe scored 26 points for the Trail Blazers, who concluded a winless three-game \u200bEast Coast road trip as they lost their \u200cfourth straight overall following a four-game winning streak. The losing streak ties a season high for Portland, which also dropped four straight from November 14-19.<\/p>\n
Jerami Grant (15 points), Sidy Cissoko (15) and \u200cCaleb Love (12) all got into double figures off the bench for the Trail Blazers while starter Deni Avdija had \u200c11 points. Reserve Robert Williams III grabbed \u2060a team-high 11 rebounds.<\/p>\n
Diawara\u2019s 3-pointer gave the Knicks their first double-digit lead at 22-10 with 3:41 left in the first. New York led 37-22 at the end of the \u200copening period before scoring the first nine points of the second.<\/p>\n
A 23-7 run later in the second pulled the Trail Blazers within 56-48 before the Knicks \u200dcarried a 59-49 lead into halftime. New York led by double digits throughout the second half and by as many as 33 in \u200cthe fourth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doncic leads the way as LA Lakers beat the 142-111, while New \u200dYork Knicks overcome Portland Trail Blazers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3790],"tags":[7,4034,1698,300,4044,251,150,4033,4043,6,67,275,417,418],"class_list":["post-572548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-lakers","tag-basketball","tag-la","tag-la-lakers","tag-lakers","tag-lalakers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangeleslakers","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-united-states","tag-us-canada"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115988732686115585","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572548","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=572548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}