The Golden State Warriors now have their first victory of the 2026 NBA preseason.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Facing a Los Angeles Lakers squad missing Luka Don\u010di\u0107, the Dubs led wire-to-wire while dominating for much of the 48 minutes. The final score was 124-98, but there were times in which it didn’t even feel that close.<\/p>\n
Stephen Curry was sensational, finishing with 16 points and five assists in under 15 minutes of action. Draymond Green doled out eight assists and was a plus-25 in just over 14 minutes.<\/p>\n
It was rookie Yaxel Lendeborg, however, who stole the show. He racked up 17 points, nine rebounds, two assists and a block while flashing just about every trick in his bag. He knocked down two of his three long-range attempts, consistently attacked the Lakers’ shaky paint defense, played with physicality on the glass and even spent some time at center.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bright spots were harder to come by for Los Angeles. But it got a stellar offensive performance from Sandro Mamukelashvili (15 points), an overall solid outing from Adou Thiero (seven points, four rebounds) and another glimpse into Chris Ma\u00f1on’s feisty defense (two steals, one block).<\/p>\n
Catch up with all the highlights, analysis, postgame commentary and storylines coming out of this one below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Golden State Warriors now have their first victory of the 2026 NBA preseason.\u00a0 Facing a Los Angeles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-487804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487804","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=487804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}