NBA 2K26 Summer League<\/a> battle at Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas on Monday night.<\/p>\nThe Clippers appeared well on their way to a comfortable win early, as they held a 22-13 advantage through one despite the Lakers opening the game on a quick 5-2 run. However, James and company thrived on both ends during the second period, enjoying an 18-10 edge that led to a razor-thin one-point lead for the Clippers at intermission. The Lakers subsequently opened the fourth quarter on an 8-0 run that helped keep the final period close until Miller\u2019s 3-pointer with 3:18 remaining erased a two-point deficit and ignited the Clippers\u2019 game-ending 11-0 sprint.<\/p>\n
Miller paced the Clippers with 19 points, adding seven rebounds, two assists and two steals. Zavier Simpson furnished 12 points, six assists, four rebounds and two blocks. Patrick Baldwin Jr. and rookie first-round pick Yanic Konan Niederhauser delivered 10 points apiece. Baldwin added seven rebounds and two blocks and Niederhauser tallied two rebounds and two steals among their other contributions.<\/p>\n
James shot an efficient 6-for-10 from the field on his way to leading the Lakers with 17 points, a figure he complemented with five rebounds and five assists. Cole Swider registered 16 points, five boards and three steals. Dalton Knecht supplied eight points, seven rebounds and two assists, while Christian Koloko matched Knecht\u2019s scoring and added three boards and three steals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Clippers defeat the Lakers in the NBA 2K26 Summer League. \u2022\u00a0Download the NBA App\u2022\u00a0Summer League: Complete Coverage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[11560,355,99],"class_list":["post-11634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-clippers-lakers-recap","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}