three-game losing streak<\/a> ended, with the team avoiding a season-worst drought with the victory over the Warriors.<\/p>\nThey moved to 35-24 to stay at least 10 games above .500.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe responded exactly how we were supposed to,\u201d LaRavia said. \u201cAnyone that talked to me and asked me a question about what the mindset was coming to this game was: win the game. At all costs, we have to come out and we just have to win and get back on the right track. And I think we did everything to make that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Turning point<\/p>\n
The moment the Lakers arrived at Chase Center.<\/p>\n
They took control of the game early, jumping to a 23-11 lead and didn\u2019t look back.<\/p>\n
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Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James (23) reacts after making a 3-point basket during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Golden State Warriors, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo\/Godofredo A. V\u00e1squez) AP<\/p>\n
MVP: LeBron James<\/p>\n
James made his first four 3s, finding a rhythm from beyond the arc that eluded him for most of February, before missing his final two.<\/p>\n
The four-time league MVP entered Saturday shooting 21.3% (10 of 47) on 3s in February entering the matchup against the Warriors.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m comfortable in every shot I take,\u201d James said. \u201cI can shoot 0.0% from the 3-point line and I believe I\u2019ll make the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stat of the game: Seven<\/p>\n
The biggest sign of how seriously the Lakers took Saturday\u2019s game was the fact their Big 3 took great care of the ball.<\/p>\n
Doncic, James and Reaves combined for just seven turnovers, lower than the 10.4 they combined to average entering Saturday.<\/p>\n
James had most of those giveaways Saturday with four.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
The Lakers will fly back to Southern California on Saturday night for the second leg of their back-to-back.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ll host the Kings at Crypto.com Arena on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
Rui Hachimura\u2019s status wasn\u2019t known as of Saturday night, with coach JJ Redick saying pregame that the forward was still under the weather with the illness that held him out of the matchup against the Warriors for his second straight absence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lakers star LeBron James SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The Lakers needed Saturday night. Even with the Warriors being without…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3790],"tags":[1013,7,1347,4077,1661,871,4034,1698,300,4044,185,251,150,4033,4043,368,1171,6,66742,1012,162,16482,932,255],"class_list":["post-632028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-lakers","tag-austin-reaves","tag-basketball","tag-gary-payton-ii","tag-jake-laravia","tag-jj-redick","tag-kristaps-porzingis","tag-la","tag-la-lakers","tag-lakers","tag-lalakers","tag-lebron-james","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangeleslakers","tag-luka-doncic","tag-luke-kennard","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball-game","tag-rui-hachimura","tag-san-francisco","tag-saturday-night","tag-steph-curry","tag-warriors"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116153169585539174","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632028","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=632028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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