{"id":279818,"date":"2025-11-13T06:23:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/279818\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T06:23:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T06:23:36","slug":"lakers-humiliated-by-okc-thunder-curry-warriors-rally-to-defeat-spurs-basketball-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/279818\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers humiliated by OKC Thunder; Curry, Warriors rally to defeat Spurs | Basketball News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">LA Lakers are blown out by Oklahoma City on the road while Stephen Curry scores 46 as Golden State beat San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 13 Nov 202513 Nov 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 30 points and nine assists in three quarters as the Oklahoma City Thunder rolled past the Los Angeles Lakers 121-92.<\/p>\n<p>Isaiah Joe added 21 points for the Thunder on Wednesday night, which improved their National Basketball Association (NBA) league best record to 12-1.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City blew out one of their top Western Conference rivals for the second game. They beat the Golden State Warriors 126-102 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles guard Luka Doncic was held to 19 points on 7-for-20 shooting. He was averaging 37.1 points coming into the game.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma City\u2019s Lu Dort, a defensive stopper who normally guards Doncic, was out with an upper right trapezius strain, but the Thunder got the job done anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Austin Reaves, who was averaging 30.3 points, had 13 points on 4-for-12 shooting for the Lakers. Los Angeles had scored at least 116 points in every game this season, but they didn\u2019t get close after shooting 40.3 percent from the field.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers played without LeBron James once again although for the first time this season he practised on Wednesday. He got some reps with the team\u2019s G League affiliate earlier in the day in California.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles could have used another star against Oklahoma City. The Thunder led 30-18 at the end of the first quarter, then held the Lakers without a field goal for nearly eight minutes to start the second. Los Angeles missed their first 11 shots of the quarter as Oklahoma City extended their advantage to 70-38 at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>In the closing seconds of the third quarter, Gilgeous-Alexander drove to the hoop, then fired a behind-the-back pass to Joe, who nailed a three-pointer as time expired in the period to give Oklahoma City a 100-64 lead.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-4103425\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2025-11-13T030902Z_1238287056_MT1USATODAY27573516_RTRMADP_3_NBA-LOS-ANGELES-LAKERS-AT-OKLAHOMA-CITY-.jpeg\" alt=\"Luka Doncic in action.\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/>Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Doncic (#77) had 19 points in a losing effort [Alonzo Adams\/Imagn Images via Reuters]Curry scores season high as Warriors beat Spurs<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Curry scored 46 points as the Warriors beat the San Antonio Spurs 125-120, overcoming triple doubles by Victor Wembanyama and Stephon Castle.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Butler had 28 points and eight assists for Golden State, which had lost three of four. Moses Moody added 19 points.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama had 31 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists for his fourth career triple double. He had 38 points and 12 rebounds in a 121-117 victory at Chicago on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama and Castle became the first Spurs teammates to record triple doubles in the same game. Castle finished with 23 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists.<\/p>\n<p>San Antonio suffered its first home loss this season. The Spurs had won three in a row overall.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-arc-image-770 wp-image-4103236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/AP25317120249169-1763008007.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Curry and Victor Wembanyama in action.\" fetchpriority=\"low\"\/>Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry drives around San Antonio Spurs centre Victor Wembanyama in San Antonio, Texas, on November 12, 2025 [Eric Gay\/AP]Curry explodes in second half<\/p>\n<p>Curry scored 29 points in the second half as the Warriors outscored the Spurs 76-64 in the final two quarters.<\/p>\n<p>His fourth three-pointer gave Golden State a 74-73 lead with five minutes left in the third quarter, their first lead since the opening minutes of the first.<\/p>\n<p>Curry had 22 points in the third quarter, going 5-for-9 on three-pointers and making all nine of his free-throw attempts.<\/p>\n<p>Golden State finished 32 for 36 on free throws while San Antonio was 14 for 16.<\/p>\n<p>The Spurs had three alley-oop dunks in building a 16-point lead in the second quarter, and the 7-foot-4 (2.2-metre) Wembanyama didn\u2019t throw any down although he did assist on one to Castle. Luke Kornet had the other two dunks on assists from Castle and Devin Vassell.<\/p>\n<p>Wembanyama blocked Draymond Green\u2019s 25ft (7.6-metre) three-point attempt early in the opening quarter, leaping from the free-throw line to get to the ball. The block extended Wembanyama\u2019s streak to 96 straight games with at least one block.<\/p>\n<p>Golden State improved to 1-1 on a six-game trip. San Antonio have four games remaining on their homestand.<\/p>\n<p>The teams meet again on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LA Lakers are blown out by Oklahoma City on the road while Stephen Curry scores 46 as Golden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[461,49,48,459,44,457,82,772,1690],"class_list":{"0":"post-279818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-sport","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-us-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}