{"id":203742,"date":"2026-03-04T10:56:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T10:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/203742\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T10:56:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T10:56:38","slug":"lakers-128-104-kings-mar-1-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/203742\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers 128-104 Kings (Mar 1, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES — \u2014 Luka Doncic<\/a> had 28 points and nine assists, LeBron James<\/a> added 24 points and the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> finished a back-to-back set with a 128-104 victory over the Sacramento Kings<\/a> on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Austin Reaves<\/a> scored 12 points for the Lakers, who also won at Golden State on Saturday<\/a> to 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

Doncic made four 3-pointers as the NBA’s leading scorer played only the first three quarters, while James, Marcus Smart<\/a> and Luke Kennard<\/a> 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

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’s opening basket.<\/p>\n

Nique Clifford<\/a> scored 26 points for the Kings in their fourth consecutive loss at the Lakers’ downtown arena. Russell Westbrook<\/a> had 14 points against his former team in his hometown.<\/p>\n

NBA-worst Sacramento has lost 18 of 20.<\/p>\n

Deandre Ayton<\/a> had 12 points on 6-of-6 shooting for the Lakers, who opened a 22-point lead in the first half.<\/p>\n

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

Up next <\/p>\n

Kings: Host Phoenix on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Lakers: Host New Orleans on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES — \u2014 Luka Doncic had 28 points and nine assists, LeBron James added 24 points and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-203742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-sacramento","9":"tag-sacramento-headlines","10":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203742","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=203742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}