{"id":237266,"date":"2026-03-26T08:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/237266\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:27:08","slug":"doncic-leads-los-angeles-against-brooklyn-after-43-point-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/237266\/","title":{"rendered":"Doncic leads Los Angeles against Brooklyn after 43-point performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brooklyn Nets<\/a> (17-56, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> (47-26, third in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Los Angeles; Friday, 10:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles plays the Brooklyn Nets after Luka Doncic<\/a> scored 43 points in the Los Angeles Lakers’ 137-130 win over the Indiana Pacers.<\/p>\n

The Lakers are 23-12 on their home court. Los Angeles is eighth in the Western Conference with 14.7 fast break points per game led by LeBron James<\/a> averaging 5.8.<\/p>\n

The Nets are 8-30 on the road. Brooklyn averages 15.3 turnovers per game and is 4-18 when winning the turnover battle.<\/p>\n

The Lakers are shooting 50.0% from the field this season, 0.6 percentage points higher than the 49.4% the Nets allow to opponents. The Nets’ 44.3% shooting percentage from the field this season is 4.1 percentage points lower than the Lakers have given up to their opponents (48.4%).<\/p>\n

The teams play for the second time this season. The Lakers won the last meeting 125-109 on Feb. 4. James scored 25 points to help lead the Lakers to the win.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Austin Reaves is scoring 23.6 points per game and averaging 4.7 rebounds for the Lakers. Doncic is averaging 39.1 points and 8.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Terance Mann<\/a> is averaging 7.2 points and 3.1 assists for the Nets. Ben Saraf<\/a> is averaging 10.2 points and 2.2 rebounds while shooting 44.0% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Lakers: 9-1, averaging 120.9 points, 41.0 rebounds, 25.9 assists, 9.6 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 50.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Nets: 1-9, averaging 102.6 points, 36.4 rebounds, 23.7 assists, 9.0 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 43.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.2 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Lakers: Deandre Ayton<\/a>: day to day (back), Marcus Smart<\/a>: day to day (ankle), Adou Thiero: day to day (knee), Rui Hachimura<\/a>: day to day (calf).<\/p>\n

Nets: Noah Clowney: out (wrist), Nolan Traore<\/a>: out (rest), Danny Wolf<\/a>: out (ankle), Egor Demin<\/a>: out for season (foot), Day’Ron Sharpe: out for season (thumb), Michael Porter<\/a> Jr.: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Nets (17-56, 14th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Los Angeles Lakers (47-26, third in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[107077,74150,107079,20294,104355,80631,48,52,51,13505,47,50,2497,49,7551,1420,104356,20784,107078,20293,104357],"class_list":["post-237266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ben-saraf","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-danny-wolf","tag-deandre-ayton","tag-egor-demin","tag-event_preview","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lebron-james","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-luka-doncic","tag-marcus-smart","tag-michael-porter-jr","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nolan-traore","tag-rui-hachimura","tag-terance-mann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237266","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=237266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}