{"id":646250,"date":"2026-03-08T01:50:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/646250\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T01:50:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:50:28","slug":"lakers-vs-knicks-discussion-injury-report-how-to-watch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/646250\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers vs Knicks Discussion, Injury Report, How To Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lakers (38-25) continue their five-game home stand on Sunday when they host the New York Knicks (41-23). The purple and gold look to conclude the season series with a tie.<\/p>\n

Start time and TV schedule<\/p>\n

When: 12:30 p.m. PT, Mar 8<\/p>\n

The Lakers quickly got back into the winning column after taking care of business<\/a> against the Indiana Pacers on Friday night. Luka Don\u010di\u0107 was on a heater<\/a> and the rest followed his lead. It was the perfect bounceback game and one that should give them some momentum ahead of a tough matchup against the Knicks.<\/p>\n

The Knicks side that the Lakers will stumble upon on Sunday afternoon is one that\u2019s playing outstanding basketball right now. Aside from being the team that cooled off the San Antonio Spurs last week, New York has taken their production to another level, at least compared to when they faced the Lakers last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re also coming off a dominant victory against the Denver Nuggets, which helped the Lakers in the standings. So thanks for that!<\/p>\n

What makes this Knicks team even better than the version the Lakers saw in February is that their defense is even better. In the last 10 games, they have the second-best defense in the league thanks to a couple of scheme adjustments. They\u2019re going to once again attempt to expose the Lakers\u2019 lack of shooting as well as test who will step up outside of Don\u010di\u0107. This is where Austin Reaves and co., come in.<\/p>\n

The Lakers\u2019 defense will also have to hold up its end of the bargain in this one. The Knicks have the offensive tools to give the Lakers a lot of trouble on this end, such as a dynamic point guard, a plethora of 3-D wings and an above-average big man. They rebound the ball very well, too. If the Lakers\u2019 defense stays mediocre, then, frankly speaking, there\u2019s no way they\u2019re going to win this one.<\/p>\n

Hopefully, we get a classic Don\u010di\u0107 game and maybe a LeBron James one if he suits up. There\u2019s no ongoing rivalry between these two teams, but it\u2019s a big deal when it\u2019s Los Angeles against New York. It\u2019ll also be nice to tie the season series and get a dub against a team above .500.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s see if the Lakers can do just that in their matinee marquee matchup on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lakers (38-25) continue their five-game home stand on Sunday when they host the New York Knicks (41-23).…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3790],"tags":[7,4034,1698,300,4044,251,150,64012,4033,4043,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-646250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-lakers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-lakers","11":"tag-lakers","12":"tag-lalakers","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","15":"tag-los-angeles-lakers-discussion","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-losangeleslakers","18":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116191050167436942","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646250","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=646250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}