{"id":701080,"date":"2026-04-06T08:38:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T08:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/701080\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T08:38:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T08:38:35","slug":"los-angeles-faces-oklahoma-city-looks-for-11th-straight-home-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/701080\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles faces Oklahoma City, looks for 11th straight home win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> (62-16, first in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> (50-28, third in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Los Angeles; Tuesday, 10:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Thunder -13; over\/under is 226.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles will try to keep its 10-game home win streak alive when the Lakers take on Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n

The Lakers are 30-18 in conference matchups. Los Angeles ranks ninth in the Western Conference with 31.6 defensive rebounds per game led by Luka Doncic<\/a> averaging 7.1.<\/p>\n

The Thunder are 39-9 in Western Conference play. Oklahoma City averages 12.0 turnovers per game and is 50-10 when winning the turnover battle.<\/p>\n

The Lakers make 50.1% of their shots from the field this season, which is 6.7 percentage points higher than the Thunder have allowed to their opponents (43.4%). The Thunder average 119.2 points per game, 3.9 more than the 115.3 the Lakers allow to opponents.<\/p>\n

The two teams match up for the fourth time this season. The Thunder defeated the Lakers 139-96 in their last matchup on April 3. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> led the Thunder with 28 points, and Austin Reaves<\/a> led the Lakers with 15 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: LeBron James<\/a> is scoring 20.8 points per game with 6.1 rebounds and 7.1 assists for the Lakers. Jaxson Hayes<\/a> is averaging 11.5 points and 5.1 rebounds while shooting 79.2% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Chet Holmgren<\/a> is scoring 17.0 points per game and averaging 8.8 rebounds for the Thunder. Isaiah Joe<\/a> is averaging 2.5 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Lakers: 7-3, averaging 119.7 points, 42.2 rebounds, 25.8 assists, 8.5 steals and 5.3 blocks per game while shooting 52.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.5 points per game.<\/p>\n

Thunder: 9-1, averaging 123.9 points, 47.1 rebounds, 26.5 assists, 9.1 steals and 5.5 blocks per game while shooting 50.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 106.3 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Lakers: Austin Reaves: out (rib), Marcus Smart<\/a>: out (ankle), Luka Doncic: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n

Thunder: Alex Caruso<\/a>: day to day (illness), Luguentz Dort: day to day (undisclosed), Thomas Sorber<\/a>: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City Thunder (62-16, first in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Lakers (50-28, third in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[328,1013,7,366,78812,1624,32,185,150,368,326,1407,6,310,475,179,3966,3965,209,954,312],"class_list":{"0":"post-701080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oklahoma-city-thunder","8":"tag-alex-caruso","9":"tag-austin-reaves","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-chet-holmgren","12":"tag-event_preview","13":"tag-isaiah-joe","14":"tag-jaxson-hayes","15":"tag-lebron-james","16":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","17":"tag-luka-doncic","18":"tag-marcus-smart","19":"tag-national-basketball-association","20":"tag-nba","21":"tag-oklahoma","22":"tag-oklahoma-city","23":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","24":"tag-oklahomacity","25":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","26":"tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","27":"tag-thomas-sorber","28":"tag-thunder"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116356861373141574","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701080","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=701080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}