Los Angeles Lakers (8-3, fourth in the Western Conference) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (11-1, first in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Oklahoma City; Wednesday, 9:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Thunder -6.5; over\/under is 229.5<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Oklahoma City hosts Los Angeles trying to continue its five-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n Oklahoma City went 68-14 overall, 39-13 in Western Conference action and 36-6 at home during the 2024-25 season. The Thunder averaged 120.5 points per game while shooting 48.2% from the field and 37.4% from behind the arc last season.<\/p>\n Los Angeles went 50-32 overall and 36-16 in Western Conference action during the 2024-25 season. The Lakers averaged 7.7 steals, 4.5 blocks and 13.1 turnovers per game last season.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Thunder: Aaron Wiggins: day to day (thigh), Luguentz Dort: day to day (shoulder), Nikola Topic: out (groin), Jalen Williams: day to day (wrist), Kenrich Williams: out (knee), Thomas Sorber: out for season (knee).<\/p>\n Lakers: LeBron James: out (sciatica), Gabe Vincent: out (ankle), Adou Thiero: out (knee).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Lakers (8-3, fourth in the Western Conference) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (11-1, first in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[26750,22031,7550,32030,32032,48,52,51,13505,47,50,2497,49,32035,32033,6664,13503,32034,2498,32031],"class_list":["post-49479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-aaron-wiggins","tag-adou-thiero","tag-gabe-vincent","tag-jalen-williams","tag-kenrich-williams","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-luguentz-dort","tag-nikola-topic","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-thomas-sorber","tag-western-conference","tag-winning-streak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49479","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=49479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}