{"id":156064,"date":"2026-03-07T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/156064\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T08:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T08:00:15","slug":"los-angeles-faces-new-york-following-doncics-44-point-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/156064\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles faces New York following Doncic’s 44-point game"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Knicks<\/a> (41-23, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> (38-25, sixth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Los Angeles; Sunday, 3:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles hosts the New York Knicks after Luka Doncic<\/a> scored 44 points in the Los Angeles Lakers’ 128-117 win against the Indiana Pacers.<\/p>\n

The Lakers have gone 19-12 at home. Los Angeles is fifth in the Western Conference with 51.6 points per game in the paint led by LeBron James<\/a> averaging 11.2.<\/p>\n

The Knicks are 18-14 on the road. New York scores 117.2 points and has outscored opponents by 6.6 points per game.<\/p>\n

The Lakers make 49.9% of their shots from the field this season, which is 4.2 percentage points higher than the Knicks have allowed to their opponents (45.7%). The Knicks are shooting 47.3% from the field, 1.1% lower than the 48.4% the Lakers’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n

The teams play for the second time this season. The Knicks won the last meeting 112-100 on Feb. 2, with OG Anunoby<\/a> scoring 25 points in the win.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Doncic is averaging 32.5 points, 7.8 rebounds, 8.5 assists and 1.5 steals for the Lakers. Austin Reaves is averaging 17.4 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Karl-Anthony Towns<\/a> is scoring 19.7 points per game and averaging 11.9 rebounds for the Knicks. Anunoby is averaging 2.3 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Lakers: 6-4, averaging 116.5 points, 40.0 rebounds, 27.5 assists, 8.2 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 50.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.3 points per game.<\/p>\n

Knicks: 7-3, averaging 115.0 points, 45.1 rebounds, 30.0 assists, 9.5 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 48.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 101.7 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Lakers: LeBron James: out (elbow), Maxi Kleber: out (back), Deandre Ayton<\/a>: out (knee).<\/p>\n

Knicks: Miles McBride: out (ankle).<\/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":"New York Knicks (41-23, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Los Angeles Lakers (38-25, sixth in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30523,54398,1555,10581,9141,22441,4568,9,11,1104,10,6474],"class_list":{"0":"post-156064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-deandre-ayton","9":"tag-event_preview","10":"tag-karl-anthony-towns","11":"tag-lebron-james","12":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","13":"tag-luka-doncic","14":"tag-national-basketball-association","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-headlines","17":"tag-new-york-knicks","18":"tag-new-york-news","19":"tag-og-anunoby"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}