{"id":159932,"date":"2026-02-02T06:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/159932\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T06:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:22:12","slug":"lakers-lose-to-new-york-knicks-on-anniversary-of-luka-doncic-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/159932\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers lose to New York Knicks on anniversary of Luka Doncic trade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NEW YORK\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of the Lakers<\/a>\u2019 acquisition of Luka Doncic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Coach JJ Redick<\/a> acknowledged he felt \u201cstressed\u201d knowing about the trade<\/a> before the Lakers played the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden that night in 2025.<\/p>\n

While his stress may have faded, Redick couldn\u2019t have liked what he saw from the Lakers on the same floor one year later.<\/p>\n

Despite a strong effort from Doncic, the Lakers struggled with their shooting and lost 112-100<\/a> to the Knicks on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

After Landry Shamet made his second straight three-pointer to give the Knicks a 112-99 lead with 59.3 seconds left, Redick pulled his starters. The Lakers led 56-52 at halftime but were outscored 38-26 in the third quarter after New York went on a 15-5 run to take a 90-82 lead into the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

Doncic finished with 30 points, 15 rebounds and eight assists, but it wasn\u2019t enough to overcome the Lakers\u2019 45% shooting from the field and 29% shooting from three-point range.<\/p>\n

With the Lakers in sixth place in the uber-competitive Western Conference at 29-19, Doncic was asked where he thought they stood in their pursuit of an NBA championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in a good spot,\u201d Doncic said. \u201cObviously, got some work to do. But I think today we obviously missed a lot of good looks, but I think we have a great group.\u201d<\/p>\n

LeBron James had 22 points, six assists and five rebounds, but he fell to 23-9 in regular-season games at Madison Square Garden, and the Lakers slipped to 4-3 on their season-high eight-game trip, which ends Tuesday in Brooklyn. <\/p>\n

With the Lakers 5-5 in their last 10, James also reflected on where the team stands.<\/p>\n

\"\" <\/p>\n

\u201cI like this group, but we got to continue to get better,\u201d James said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s good. We should want to get better. \u2026 We want to continue to get better and better. It\u2019s a tough league.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike I said, it\u2019s been tough all season as far as dealing with injuries. … Unfortunately our All-Star two-guard [Austin Reaves, calf injury] has been out for a minute and that\u2019s a big piece of our team. So, it\u2019s kind of hard to see what we can really, truly be.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deandre Ayton had 13 points and five rebounds, and Marcus Smart had seven points and three assists.<\/p>\n

OG Anunoby had 25 points, eight rebounds and three assists to lead the Knicks (31-18), who have won six straight. Shamet scored 23 points off the bench, and Josh Hart had 20 points and four rebounds. Jalen Brunson finished with 12 points and a season-high 13 assists. <\/p>\n

Before the game, James was named an All-Star for a record 22nd time.<\/p>\n

\"LeBron <\/p>\n

LeBron James had 22 points, six assists and five rebounds against Josh Hart and the Knicks.<\/p>\n

(John Munson \/ Associated Press)<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, super humbling,\u201d James said. \u201cMad respect to the coaches and them seeing how I\u2019m still playing at this latter stage of my career and to be able to be an All-Star. That means a lot to my family, my people that\u2019ve been following my career, my LeBron faithful that\u2019s been following my journey.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always rewarding just from a humble standpoint to be able to be rewarded for what you put your work into. So, it\u2019s pretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of the Lakers\u2019 acquisition of Luka Doncic. Coach JJ Redick acknowledged he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[9376,6265,43166,48,52,51,10356,1415,47,50,49,77861,51796,13504,1869,1417,7556,1414,777,135,43356],"class_list":["post-159932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-anniversary","tag-assist","tag-knicks","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-laker","tag-lakers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-luka-doncic-trade","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-night","tag-point","tag-rebound","tag-redick","tag-second-half","tag-shooting","tag-three-point-range"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}