{"id":305634,"date":"2026-05-08T07:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/305634\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T07:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T07:42:10","slug":"oklahoma-city-visits-los-angeles-with-2-0-series-lead-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/305634\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City visits Los Angeles with 2-0 series lead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> (64-18, first in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> (53-29, fourth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Los Angeles; Saturday, 8:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Thunder -8.5; over\/under is 211.5<\/p>\n

WESTERN CONFERENCE SECOND ROUND: Thunder lead series 2-0<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Oklahoma City Thunder visit the Los Angeles Lakers in the Western Conference second round with a 2-0 lead in the series. The Thunder won the last matchup 125-107 on Friday, led by 22 points from Chet Holmgren<\/a>. Austin Reaves<\/a> led the Lakers with 31.<\/p>\n

The Lakers are 33-19 in conference matchups. Los Angeles averages 116.3 points and has outscored opponents by 1.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Thunder have gone 41-11 against Western Conference opponents. Oklahoma City is eighth in the Western Conference with 25.8 assists per game led by Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> averaging 6.6.<\/p>\n

The Lakers average 11.8 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.5 fewer makes per game than the Thunder allow (14.3). The Thunder are shooting 48.4% from the field, 0.1% higher than the 48.3% the Lakers’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: LeBron James<\/a> is averaging 20.9 points, 6.1 rebounds and 7.2 assists for the Lakers. Rui Hachimura<\/a> is averaging 16.4 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Gilgeous-Alexander is scoring 31.1 points per game with 4.3 rebounds and 6.6 assists for the Thunder. Holmgren is averaging 16.0 points and 7.9 rebounds while shooting 61.1% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Lakers: 6-4, averaging 103.6 points, 40.4 rebounds, 25.3 assists, 8.9 steals and 5.3 blocks per game while shooting 48.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 100.5 points per game.<\/p>\n

Thunder: 8-2, averaging 118.5 points, 42.4 rebounds, 27.4 assists, 10.2 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 49.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.8 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Lakers: Luka Doncic: out (hamstring), Jarred Vanderbilt<\/a>: day to day (finger).<\/p>\n

Thunder: Jalen Williams: out (hamstring), Thomas Sorber<\/a>: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City Thunder (64-18, first in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Lakers (53-29, fourth in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[19538,92680,80631,51697,48,52,51,13505,47,50,2497,49,20784,13503,20293,7577,32034],"class_list":["post-305634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-austin-reaves","tag-chet-holmgren","tag-event_preview","tag-jarred-vanderbilt","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-national-basketball-association","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-rui-hachimura","tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","tag-thomas-sorber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305634","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=305634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305634\/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=305634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}