Lakers (29-18) vs. Knicks (30-18) | Game 49 of 82<\/p>\n
WHERE TO WATCH AND WHAT TIME<\/p>\n
Location: Madison Square Garden \u2014 New York, N.Y.<\/p>\n
TV: Telemundo, NBC, Peacock<\/p>\n
Radio: ESPN LA 710 \/ 1330 KWKW<\/p>\n
The Lakers continue the final stretch of their longest road trip of the season Sunday afternoon with a marquee prime-time matchup against the red-hot New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles enters the contest riding momentum after a dominant 142\u2013111 win over the Washington Wizards on Friday, improving to 29-18 on the season and 4-2 on the road trip. The performance served as a strong response following Wednesday\u2019s blowout loss in Cleveland.<\/p>\n
Luka Don\u010di\u0107 led the way in Washington with 37 points, 13 assists and 11 rebounds, recording his triple-double by halftime, becoming the only player in Lakers history to do so. The Lakers shot 61% from the field and tallied a season-high 38 assists in one of their most complete offensive performances of the season.<\/p>\n
Deandre Ayton added 28 points on 12-of-14 shooting with 13 rebounds, while LeBron James contributed a series of highlight finishes as L.A dominated the paint and controlled the tempo throughout the night.<\/p>\n
We can still see Austin Reaves make his return to the lineup after a 17-game absence, as coach JJ Redick said he’d make his return in the road trip.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sunday\u2019s matchup presents a challenge, as the Lakers face one of the Eastern Conference\u2019s best teams and another team above .500. The Lakers \u2014 who sit sixth in the West at 29-18 \u2014 are 9-10 against teams above .500 while having a 17-10 road record this season.<\/p>\n
New York enters Sunday\u2019s contest second in the Eastern Conference at 30-18 and riding a five-game winning streak. The Knicks have leaned heavily on Jalen Brunson, who has led the team in scoring in four of those five wins, continuing his All-NBA-caliber season at 27.6 ppg.<\/p>\n
Brunson remains the engine of New York\u2019s offense, but Karl-Anthony Towns has been a solid second option with a 20 ppg and 12 rpg average each night.<\/p>\n
The Knicks will be without their lethal sixth man and top sniper in Miles McBride. He leads the team at 43% shooting from 3 and 13 points off the bench. So look for former Laker Jordan Clarkson, who averaged 9.3 ppg, to have a more expanded scoring role off the bench in the Garden<\/p>\n
NOTABLE OPPONENT RANKS AMONG THE NBA<\/p>\n
The Knicks have the 3rd-rated offense (118.9) and 12th-rated defense (113.6) in the NBA. Here are their notable rankings this season:<\/p>\n
Bronny James (lower left leg soreness): Out<\/p>\n
Austin Reaves (left calf strain): Questionable<\/p>\n
Adou Thiero (right MCL sprain): Out<\/p>\n
The Lakers will wear their purple Statement Edition uniforms, while the Knicks will wear their City Edition uniforms at Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n
The Lakers will conclude their eight-game road trip Tuesday night in Brooklyn against the Nets before returning to L.A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lakers (29-18) vs. Knicks (30-18) | Game 49 of 82 WHERE TO WATCH AND WHAT TIME Location: Madison…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[1013,7,288,304,1698,185,150,368,6,1136,191,67,3810,3806,4536],"class_list":{"0":"post-575651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-austin-reaves","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-jalen-brunson","11":"tag-knicks","12":"tag-la-lakers","13":"tag-lebron-james","14":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","15":"tag-luka-doncic","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-new-york","18":"tag-new-york-knicks","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-newyork","21":"tag-newyorkknicks","22":"tag-tst-los-angeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115996998126094935","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575651","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=575651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}