![]() ![]() The Lakers have taken eight free throws, making six, compared to the Warriors’ one, which came on a technical foul by Dennis Schroder. Hoping to control the free-throw line again, the Lakers forced the Warriors into the penalty at the 6:28 mark of the first quarter. ![]() He was knocked to the court on a Warriors possession and stayed down for several seconds while his teammates ran up the court, but once he gathered himself, he casually jogged up the court and hit an open three-pointer from the top of the key. LeBron James has nine points, including a dramatic three-pointer after slowly making his way up the court. There’s 4:40 remaining in the first quarter.Ī corner three from Austin Reaves forced the Warriors to take another timeout. The Lakers are attacking from all angles as all five of their starters have scored with a 27-10 lead. Reaves knocked down a half-court buzzer-beater to increase the lead to 10 at halftime, bringing the packed crowd at Arena to its feet. The Lakers jumped out to a 17-point lead early, but the Warriors cut it to four. Anthony Davis didn’t show any signs of the apparent head injury that knocked him out of Game 5 and delivered 17 points and 20 rebounds.Īustin Reaves had 23 points, including 10 in the second quarter that helped the Lakers stave off an early Warriors comeback attempt. LeBron James led the Lakers with 30 points, nine rebounds and nine assists. It wasn’t quite the 40-point thrashing that the Lakers used to knock out the Memphis Grizzlies in the first round, but Friday’s victory was comprehensive with five Lakers scoring in double digits. Closing out the series on Friday afforded the Lakers extra rest before the conference finals begin Tuesday. 1-seeded Denver Nuggets in the Western Conference finals. Game 5 is set for Wednesday in San Francisco.The Lakers eliminated the defending champion Golden State Warriors with a 122-101 Game 6 victory at Arena on Friday, advancing to face the No. My guess is the Warriors win at home in Game 5 and the Lakers close it out in six. The margin in this series is so small, it's hard to imagine either team winning three straight games. Perhaps the Warriors have a little payback in them. The Warriors, of course, have been on the wrong side of one of those 13 times, losing a 3-1 lead to LeBron's Cavs in the 2016 Finals. It's only been done 13 times in history, which is actually more than you probably figured. It was not a good ending for Curry or the Warriors as they'll now have to find a way to pull off what is as close to an impossible task as exists in the NBA: come back from a 3-1 deficit to win a playoff series. Then, with the Warriors down three, after retaining a jump ball, Curry panicked and threw a pass out of bounds rather than using Golden State's final timeout. Curry had two jumpers with a chance to take the lead with under 30 seconds left, and missed them both. ![]() Stephen Curry led the Warriors with a 31-point triple-double, adding 14 assists and 10 rebounds, but he did not have a good shooting night, finishing just 12 of 30 from the field, including 3 of 14 from deep. "We don't win this game without Lonnie Walker, that's for sure," James said of Walker in his postgame interview on TNT. scored the first three buckets of the final period to erase a seven-point Warriors lead in the flash. LeBron James and Anthony Davis combined for 50 points, but the hero of the night was Lonnie Walker, who scored all 15 of his points in the fourth quarter. The Los Angeles Lakers pulled out a thriller in Game 4 on Monday, defeating the Golden State Warriors, 104-101, to take a commanding 3-1 series lead.
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