{"id":385283,"date":"2026-01-03T09:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/385283\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T09:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T09:11:07","slug":"luka-doncic-lebron-james-lead-lakers-rally-to-beat-shorthanded-grizzlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/385283\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic, LeBron James lead Lakers’ rally to beat shorthanded Grizzlies"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Luka Doncic<\/a> scored 34 points \u2014 half on free throws \u2014 and LeBron James<\/a> added 31 as the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> rallied to beat the short-handed Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> 128-121 on Friday night to open a two-game set.<\/p>\n

The teams will meet again Sunday in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Doncic had eight assists and six rebounds. James had nine rebounds and six assists. The superstars dominated the fourth quarter, highlighted by a 12-2 run that put it out of reach. Doncic scored four points and assisted on two 3-pointers while James closed out the spurt with a basket.<\/p>\n

The Grizzlies were missing six players, including Zach Edey<\/a>. They had six players in double figures.<\/p>\n

Jaren Jackson Jr.<\/a> scored 25 points to lead the Grizzlies, who have dropped four of six and fell two games under .500 on the road. Former Laker Kentavious Caldwell-Pope<\/a> added 20 points. Ja Morant<\/a> had 16 points and 11 assists coming off his 40-point game in an overtime loss to Philadelphia on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Jake Laravia had 21 points on 8-of-12 shooting and nine rebounds for the Lakers. <\/p>\n

The Lakers blew a 15-point lead in the second quarter after the Grizzlies ran off 18 straight points to take a three-point lead, their first of the game. Caldwell-Pope hit two of the Grizzlies\u2019 four 3-pointers in the spurt with Jock Landale<\/a> adding seven points.<\/p>\n

Caldwell-Pope\u2019s back-to-back 3-pointers forced a 96-all tie going into the fourth.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n

Beth Harris, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Luka Doncic scored 34 points \u2014 half on free throws \u2014 and LeBron James…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-385283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385283","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=385283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}