{"id":240602,"date":"2025-10-25T20:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T20:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/240602\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T20:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T20:49:13","slug":"lakers-128-110-timberwolves-25-oct-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/240602\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers 128-110 Timberwolves (25 Oct, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES — \u2014 Luka Doncic<\/a> scored 49 points and became the fourth player in NBA history to begin a season with back-to-back 40-point performances, leading the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> to a 128-110 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Doncic followed his 43-point game<\/a> in an opening-night loss to Golden State<\/a> with his highest-scoring effort yet in a Lakers jersey, going 14 for 23 with five 3-pointers while adding 11 rebounds and eight assists.<\/p>\n

The Slovenian superstar also made 16 of his 19 free throws, yet he missed his final two field goal attempts and a late free throw to fall just short of his eighth career 50-point game.<\/p>\n

Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain<\/a> and Anthony Davis<\/a> have also started NBA seasons with a pair of 40-point games. Doncic was traded to LA for Davis last winter.<\/p>\n

Anthony Edwards<\/a> scored 31 points and Julius Randle<\/a> had 26 for Minnesota, which couldn’t slow the Lakers’ offense in a rematch of last season’s first-round playoff series<\/a> won in five games by the Wolves.<\/p>\n

Austin Reaves<\/a> added 25 points, 11 assists and seven rebounds, while Rui Hachimura<\/a> scored 23 and Deandre Ayton<\/a> had 15 for the Lakers.<\/p>\n

LeBron James<\/a> watched from the Lakers\u2019 bench while wearing the Arizona Wildcats jersey of his younger son, Bryce. The top scorer in NBA history is out until at least mid-November with sciatica.<\/p>\n

Doncic mildly injured his groin in the Lakers’ opener, and he hurt his left hand in the opening moments against Minnesota, grabbing at it repeatedly while bent over in pain.<\/p>\n

He still scored 23 points on 8-of-12 shooting with four 3-pointers in the first quarter, matching Kobe Bryant and Kyle Kuzma<\/a> for the Lakers’ most prolific opening quarter in the past 30 years.<\/p>\n

Doncic had 32 points by halftime, and he added seven quick points early in the fourth quarter as the Lakers pulled away by 20.<\/p>\n

Bronny James<\/a> made his season debut for the Lakers, playing the final 3:14.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Timberwolves: Host Indiana on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Lakers: At Sacramento on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES — \u2014 Luka Doncic scored 49 points and became the fourth player in NBA history to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-240602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}