{"id":309748,"date":"2025-11-26T10:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/309748\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T10:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:44:07","slug":"luka-lebron-reaves-combine-for-99-to-lead-lakers-past-clippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/309748\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka, LeBron, Reaves combine for 99 to lead Lakers past Clippers"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES — Luka Doncic<\/a> had 43 points, 13 assists and 9 rebounds, and LeBron James<\/a> added 25 points in the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>‘ fifth consecutive victory, 135-118<\/a> over the LA Clippers<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Doncic matched his season high with 32 points in the first half on the way to his 51st career 40-point game. He fell just short of his 10th career 40-point triple-double, but the Lakers clinched their group with their third straight win in NBA Cup play.<\/p>\n

Austin Reaves<\/a> had 31 points and nine rebounds for the Lakers, who have won 11 of 13.<\/p>\n

James, 40, also looked more like his old self in the third game of his unprecedented 23rd NBA season, scoring 16 points in the second half while the Lakers steadily pulled away.<\/p>\n

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James Harden<\/a> continued his scoring surge with 29 points and nine assists for the Clippers, who have lost 11 of 13. Kawhi Leonard<\/a> scored 19 in his second game back from a 10-game injury absence.<\/p>\n

The first meeting this season involving the crosstown rivals got chippy when Clippers guard Kris Dunn<\/a> was ejected with 3:33 to play after knocking Doncic to the ground with a hit to his back. Doncic confronted Dunn, who shoved the ball into Doncic’s chest before Lakers center Jaxson Hayes<\/a> shoved Dunn in the back. Dunn then swatted at Hayes, who also was assessed a technical foul.<\/p>\n

Doncic opened with his highest-scoring quarter of the season, making his first five 3-point attempts — after missing 17 of 22 in his previous two games — and scoring 20 points in the first eight minutes. He also directed a stream of trash talk and staredowns at the Clippers’ bench, continuing a semi-friendly feud with LA’s second team that predates his move to the Lakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES — Luka Doncic had 43 points, 13 assists and 9 rebounds, and LeBron James added 25…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-309748","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\/309748","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=309748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}