{"id":509059,"date":"2026-03-02T07:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/509059\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T07:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:57:08","slug":"luka-lebron-lead-lakers-past-kings-to-complete-back-to-back-weekend-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/509059\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka, LeBron lead Lakers past Kings to complete back-to-back weekend wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Luka Doncic had 28 points and nine assists, LeBron James added 24 points, and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-lakers\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"los-angeles-lakers\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>\u00a0finished a back-to-back set with a 128-104 victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/sacramento-kings\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"sacramento-kings\" data-league=\"nba\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sacramento Kings<\/a> on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Austin Reaves scored 12 points for the Lakers, who also won\u00a0at Golden State on Saturday\u00a0to end a three-game skid. After a week of unimpressive play following the All-Star break, Los Angeles snapped back into form on the weekend, beating its two Northern California rivals by a combined 52 points.<\/p>\n<p>Doncic made four 3-pointers as the NBA&#8217;s leading scorer played only the first three quarters, while James, Marcus Smart and Luke Kennard hit three 3s apiece. The Lakers made 17 of their first 33 3-point attempts while the starters were still playing, flirting with the franchise record for 3-point shooting percentage before finishing 18 of 39.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old James had a pair of rim-shaking dunks that he celebrated with zeal during a comfortable win for the Lakers, who never trailed again after Sacramento scored the game&#8217;s opening basket.<\/p>\n<p>Nique Clifford scored 26 points for the Kings in their fourth consecutive loss at the Lakers&#8217; downtown arena. Russell Westbrook had 14 points against his former team in his hometown.<\/p>\n<p>NBA-worst Sacramento has lost 18 of 20.<\/p>\n<p>Deandre Ayton had 12 points on 6-of-6 shooting for the Lakers, who opened a 22-point lead in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Doncic, Reaves and Ayton all got the fourth quarter off to rest up with four games looming over the next seven days. Los Angeles is still early in a five-week stretch with no consecutive days off.<\/p>\n<p>Kings: Host Phoenix on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lakers: Host New Orleans on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Luka Doncic had 28 points and nine assists, LeBron James added 24 points, and the\u00a0Los&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-509059","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\/509059","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=509059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}