{"id":704907,"date":"2026-04-08T08:55:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/704907\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T08:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T08:55:22","slug":"lakers-without-doncic-lebron-and-reaves-are-no-match-to-shai-gilgeous-alexander-and-the-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/704907\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers without Doncic, LeBron and Reaves are no match to Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Thunder &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Lakers&#8217; momentum has come to a complete halt when they had to face Oklahoma City Thunder and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. Five days after being beaten 139-96, Thunder thrashed Lakers again 123-87 on Tuesday, in a match without Luka Doncic, Austin Reaves and LeBron James, in which SGH scored 25 points in 28 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>In between both duels with Thunder, Lakers also lost to Dallas Mavericks, suffering the loss of Luka Doncic, currently in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/luka-doncic-travels-to-spain-to-seek-hamstring-treatment-and-return-in-time-for-nba-play-offs-1701653\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spain receiving treatment in his hamstring<\/a>, hoping to be back in time for the play-offs.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, with a 50-29 record with only three games remaining, Lakers has secured a play-off spot. All left for Lakers is opt for a better seed for the play-offs: they can finish third of fifth in the Western Conference, and are competing with Denver Nuggets and Houston Rockets. Thunder leads the western conference but Victor Wembanyama&#8217;s San Antonio Spurs can still opt for the first seed in the West.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2041538714258534902?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"img-1702423-4446903\" data-fullsize=\"\/media\/69\/thundercavs_round_4446903b.jpg\" data-lazy=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.euhttps:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/media\/69\/thundercavs_round_4446903_650x.jpg\" width=\"650\" onclick=\"if (!window.__cfRLUnblockHandlers) return false; gallery_openmodal('1702423','4446903',false,'07614251f62899912b42cf137c9b7a3e');\" height=\"366\" alt=\"Lakers without Doncic, LeBron and Reaves are no match to Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Thunder\" class=\"rwd_col_content lazy\" data-cf-modified-3b4f6186826c24a63c055845-=\"\"\/>NBA.com<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers&#8217; momentum has come to a complete halt when they had to face Oklahoma City Thunder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3790],"tags":[7,4034,1698,300,4044,251,150,4033,4043,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-704907","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-losangeles","16":"tag-losangeleslakers","17":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116368257314814720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704907","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=704907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}