Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThe good news for us is that we have a lot of opportunities over the next 10 games or whatever it is to win some of those games,\u201d Redick said. \u201cI do think that the game last night was important because that was a game that we\u2019ve broken throughout the year, the games like that. And they made a number of runs that went to double digits and we just kept playing and had a chance, one-possession game with a minute to go. Again, I\u2019m confident we\u2019re gonna find it. How we\u2019re gonna find it, that\u2019s where you gotta figure it out on a daily basis sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sunday’s victory moved L.A. into fifth place in the Western Conference with a 39-25 record. They trail the fourth-place Rockets by half a game and the third-place Timberwolves by one game. If they do well enough during the rest of March, they could have a real shot at vaulting into third place in the West, just as they did to end last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 8, 2026, 8:06 p.m. PT One of the knocks on the Los Angeles Lakers this season is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3790],"tags":[72400,7,4034,1698,300,4044,251,150,4033,4043,6,53093,72522,72404,72497,72471,72559,76117,72689,72952,72611,72405,72406,72403],"class_list":["post-648563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-lakers","tag-accessfree","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-sstssportsnba","tag-sstsnnba","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagdenver-nuggets","tag-tagdetroit-pistons","tag-taghouston-rockets","tag-tagj-j-redick","tag-taglos-angeles-lakers","tag-tagminnesota-timberwolves","tag-tagnew-york-knicks","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116198269463151119","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648563","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=648563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}