MILWAUKEE \u2014 Luka Doncic scored 32 points, Sandro Mamukelashvili added 23 and Austin Reaves 18 as the Los Angeles Lakers extended their winning streak to seven games with a 123-112 win over the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Mamukelashvili, a second-round draft pick of the Bucks in 2021, matched a season-high for points set on Monday at Atlanta, and Reaves returned to action after missing Monday’s game due to illness.<\/p>\n
Walker Kessler had 10 points and 11 rebounds, and Collin Sexton chipped in with 10 points for Los Angeles, which improved to a league-best 11-2.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee’s season-scoring leader, Tyler Herro, who missed his first game of the season on Tuesday night because of a bruised right knee, returned with 25 points and seven assists. Jaime Jaquez Jr. scored a season-high 23 points for the Bucks, who lost their eighth straight and fell to 1-11.<\/p>\n
The Bucks jumped out to a 7-2 lead, but the Lakers quickly responded with a 9-0 run to pull ahead. Los Angeles’ lead grew to as many as nine before Milwaukee battled back within 30-28 after one quarter. Doncic had 16 points.<\/p>\n
The Bucks stayed close for most of the second quarter before a late push gave the Lakers a 61-50 lead at the half, despite Doncic being held to three points in the quarter. Mamukelashvili and Reaves each had 15 first-half points.<\/p>\n
The Lakers pulled away in the third, outscoring the Bucks 33-23 in the quarter to take a 94-73 lead. Herro and Ziaire Williams were whistled for technical fouls following a scuffle in the waning seconds of the period.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles scored 28 points off 19 Milwaukee turnovers.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Lakers: At Phoenix on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Bucks: Visit Orlando on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE \u2014 Luka Doncic scored 32 points, Sandro Mamukelashvili added 23 and Austin Reaves 18 as the Los…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":962048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[58195,3979,64,63,485,2873,590,85],"class_list":["post-962047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-app-sports","tag-associated-press","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-california","tag-lakers","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962047","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=962047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/962048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}