{"id":454071,"date":"2026-02-07T07:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/454071\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T07:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T07:35:09","slug":"south-bay-lakers-recap-g-league-lakers-lose-close-game-to-go-gos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/454071\/","title":{"rendered":"South Bay Lakers recap: G League Lakers lose close game to Go-Gos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two days after defeating the Capital City Go-Go, <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/south-bay-lakers-recap-g-052254510.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:124-111;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">124-111<\/a>, the South Bay Lakers took the court at CareFirst Arena in the nation&#8217;s capital again to face the Go-Go on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>They were looking for their sixth win in seven games, but this game was more competitive than Wednesday&#8217;s contest. On Wednesday, the Lakers were able to open up a big lead in the second quarter, but on Friday, neither team led by more than 10 points.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>South Bay went ahead 72-62 in the third quarter after being down by six points in the second quarter. But that 10-point lead quickly evaporated, and a couple of offensive miscues in crunch time resulted in a 115-114 loss for South Bay. The team allowed Capital City to shoot 45.5% from 3-point range, which offset the advantages it had in free throws and fast-break points.<\/p>\n<p>While Kobe Bufkin shot 5-of-13 from the field, he once again had a big scoring outing with 29 points. R.J. Davis scored 20 points and added seven rebounds and seven assists, and Arthur Kaluma contributed 25 points and nine rebounds off the bench.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on LeBron Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/lebronwire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2026\/02\/06\/south-bay-lakers-recap-g-league-lakers-lose-close-game-to-go-gos\/88562169007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:South Bay Lakers recap: G League Lakers lose close game to Go-Gos;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">South Bay Lakers recap: G League Lakers lose close game to Go-Gos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two days after defeating the Capital City Go-Go, 124-111, the South Bay Lakers took the court at CareFirst&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[32536,33494,98728,355,10843,55498,99,43589],"class_list":["post-454071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-arthur-kaluma","tag-capital-city","tag-kobe-bufkin","tag-nba","tag-south-bay","tag-south-bay-lakers","tag-sports","tag-the-lakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454071","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=454071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454071\/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=454071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}