{"id":442576,"date":"2026-02-01T09:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T09:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/442576\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T09:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T09:55:07","slug":"south-bay-lakers-recap-g-league-lakers-have-their-way-with-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/442576\/","title":{"rendered":"South Bay Lakers recap: G League Lakers have their way with the Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, the South Bay Lakers hosted the Salt Lake City Stars at UCLA Health Training Center and logged a 125-118 victory<\/a>. On Saturday, both teams faced off again in El Segundo, Calif., as the Lakers looked to win their fourth game in a row.<\/p>\n

From the beginning, this game was no contest. South Bay scored the first nine points of the game and went ahead 42-24 at the end of the first quarter. At the end of the third quarter, it led by 40 points, and its lead grew as large as a whopping 50 points in the fourth period. From there, the team glided to a 146-104 victory thanks to some sizzling offensive play.<\/p>\n

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The Lakers shot 62.6% from the field and went 17-of-33 from 3-point range while dishing off 39 assists and putting up 27 fast-break points. Meanwhile, they held Salt Lake City to just 38.9% field-goal shooting and 22.6% from downtown.<\/p>\n

R.J. Davis had a fantastic outing with 45 points on 15-of-22 overall shooting and 6-of-9 from 3-point land, to go along with eight assists. Kobe Bufkin turned in 23 points on 9-of-12 shooting while also contributing eight assists, and Augustas Mar\u010diulionis had 14 points on 6-of-8 shooting off the bench.<\/p>\n

This victory put the Lakers in fourth place in the Western Conference with a 9-6 record.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on LeBron Wire: South Bay Lakers recap: G League Lakers have their way with the Stars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday, the South Bay Lakers hosted the Salt Lake City Stars at UCLA Health Training Center and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[98728,6306,355,45570,10843,99,43589,208369],"class_list":["post-442576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-kobe-bufkin","tag-lakers","tag-nba","tag-salt-lake-city","tag-south-bay","tag-sports","tag-the-lakers","tag-ucla-health-training-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442576","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=442576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}