{"id":646095,"date":"2026-05-03T02:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646095\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T02:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T02:30:09","slug":"redick-hails-lebrons-greatness-as-injury-hit-lakers-oust-rockets-in-6-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/646095\/","title":{"rendered":"Redick hails LeBron\u2019s greatness as injury-hit Lakers oust Rockets in 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>LeBron James puts on vintage performance in Game 6 victory<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">LeBron James finishes with 28 points, seven rebounds and eight assists as the Lakers defeat the Rockets in Game 6.<\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 When leading scorers Luka Don\u010di\u0107 and Austin Reaves were both injured in an April 2 game, coach JJ Redick admitted things felt bleak for the Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>But instead of feeling sorry for themselves, the Lakers banded together to fight through the adversity and beat the Houston Rockets in six games to move on to face top-seeded Oklahoma City in the Western Conference semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles has advanced to the second round for the first time since 2023 when it lost to Denver in the West final.<\/p>\n<p>LeBron James had 28 points in Game 6 on Friday night and the Lakers used a tenacious defense to hold the Rockets to their fewest points of the season\u00a0in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/lal-vs-hou-0042500176\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">98-78 victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt speaks to his greatness,\u201d Redick said. \u201cTo me, he\u2019s had the greatest career of any NBA player. You can argue all you want and I really don\u2019t care to postulate on who\u2019s the greatest of all time, but he\u2019s one of, if not the greatest of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd for him to do it again and answer the bell again, it\u2019s really \u2014 it\u2019s baffling in some ways,\u201d Redick continued.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles raced out to a 3-0 lead in the series before losing two games to force Game 6 in Houston against a Rockets team that was missing Kevin Durant for five of six games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron James puts on vintage performance in Game 6 victory LeBron James finishes with 28 points, seven rebounds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,312605,590,85],"class_list":["post-646095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-jj-redick-lebron-james-lakers-injuries-advance-rockets","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646095","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=646095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}