On the night of January 12-13, the Sacramento Kings defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 124:112 in the NBA regular season.

In this game LeBron James It was played for the first time with a special jersey patch previously introduced by the NBA and Topps in honor of LeBron’s record-breaking 23rd season in the league.

The first game with the new patch did not go well for the Lakers. While Los Angeles struggled defensively, the Kings scored nearly everything they wanted. The team completely controlled the match, making an impressive 58.4% of the shots and an impressive 65.4% of the three-point shots.

After the victory, Sacramento decided to joke on social networks.

“Bad day for jersey patch release,” the Kings wrote on the official X account.

Despite his poor performance, James played a quality game and finished the match with 22 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists.

Bad day for a jersey patch debut 🙂‍↔️

— Sacramento Kings (@SacramentoKings) January 13, 2026

Six regular season games were played in the NBA on the night of January 12-13.

Cleveland hosted Utah and suffered an unexpected defeat.

Jazz started the game with a 21:4 attack and controlled the game until the middle of the second quarter. Cleveland gradually closed the gap and made a 17:2 move before the big break to take a 62:54 lead. Utah recovered and took the lead again in the third quarter, widening the gap in the last 12 minutes and bringing the score to double digits again. As a result, Jazz won with a score of 123:112.

Svyatoslav Mikhayyuk He was in Utah’s starting 5 and played 26 minutes, during which he scored 11 points (1/1 two-point, 3/6 three-point), 1 rebound and 3 assists.

The most productive player of the match was George with 32 points, while Markkanen (28 points + 12 rebounds) and Nurkic (11 points + 17 rebounds) made double-doubles.

Indiana defeated Boston at home in sensational fashion.

The match was quite even. No team managed to get more than 13 points away from the opponent, and most of the time the difference was two accurate shots. At the same time, Indiana was heavily ahead, which never allowed Boston to take the lead in the second half. But with 30 seconds left in the match, White equalized the score – 96:96 and could have sent the game to overtime, but the Pacers attacked this time and grabbed the victory. Siakam scored the winning two-point basket 7 seconds before the siren. As a result, the score became 98:96 in favor of Indiana, and this was already the third victory in a row.

Siakam scored 21 points and Huff scored 20 points for Indiana.

NBA. Regular season, January 13

Cleveland – Utah – 112:123 (22:34, 40:20, 24:36, 26:33)

cleveland: Garland (23 + 8 assists), Mitchell (21), E. Mobley (15 + 9 rebounds + 8 assists), Merrill (14), Allen (8) – start; Tomlin (13), Tyson (11), Porter (5), Hunter (2).

Utah: George (32 + 9 assists), Markkanen (28 + 12 rebounds), Mikhailyuk (11), Nurkic (11 + 17 rebounds), Williams (8) – start; Love (11), Collier (7+8 assists), Sensabaugh (7), Filipovski (4), Bailey (4).

Indiana – Boston – 98:96 (19:24, 34:32, 26:21, 19:19)

indiana: Siakam (21 + 8 rebounds + 6 assists), Huff (20), Nembhard (13 + 9 assists), Nesmith (6), Furphy (4) – start; Walker (11 + 7 rebounds), Jackson (8), Sheppard (5), Potter (5), McConnell (5), Bradley (0).

Boston: Pritchard (23 + 8 assists), White (18), Keta (15 + 8 rebounds), Houser (8 + 8 rebounds), Scheuermann (2) – start; Simons (16), Walsh (6+9 rebounds), Garza (6), Gonzalez (2).

Toronto – Philadelphia – 102:115 (28:45, 23:35, 26:19, 25:16)

toronto: Quickley (18), Ingram (17 + 10 rebounds + 7 assists), Barnes (15), Murray-Boyles (12 + 7 rebounds + 6 assists), Shead (3 + 6 assists) – start; Lawson (14), Mamukelashvili (8), Martin (6), Dick (4), Bettle (3), Mobo (2), Temple (0), Agbaji (0).

Philadelphia: Maxey (33), Embiid (27 + 8 rebounds + 7 turnovers), Edgecombe (15 + 8 assists), George (15 + 6 assists), Barlow (4) – starts; Oubre (7), Walker (6), Grimes (6), McCain (2), Bona (0), Edwards (0), Lowry (0), Watford (0).

Dallas – Brooklyn – 113:105 (32:23, 24:22, 28:32, 29:28)

dallas: Flegg (27), Marshall (22 + 9 assists), Hardy (14), Christie (10), Powell (5 + 10 rebounds) – start; Thompson (18), Nembhard (9+8 assists), Kelly (5), Cisse (2), Caleb Martin (1).

Brooklyn: Porter (28 + 9 rebounds + 6 turnovers), Clowney (13), Clexton (13), Powell (10), Menn (5 + 6 assists) – start; Sharpe (14+12 rebounds), Martin (7), Wilson (6), Traore (6+6 assists), Wolf (3).

Sacramento-Lakers-124:112 (32:28, 29:26, 34:29, 29:29)

sacramento: DeRozan (32 + 6 assists), Westbrook (22 + 7 assists + 5 turnovers), LaVine (19), Reynaud (11), Achiuwa (9 + 7 rebounds) – start; Monk (26 + 8 assists), Ellis (3), Cardwell (2 + 7 rebounds), Clifford (0).

Lakers: Doncic (42 + 7 rebounds + 8 assists), James (22), Ayton (13 + 13 rebounds), Larevia (2), Smart (1) – start; Hayes (12), Vincent (9), James Jr. (6), Knecht (5), Vanderbilt (0), Kleber (0), Smith (0).

Clippers – Charlotte – 117:109 (24:26, 21:17, 41:41, 31:25)

cutting machines: Leonard (35), Harden (32 + 10 assists), Zubac (9 + 11 rebounds), Collins (3), Dunn (0) – start; Miller (14), B. Lopez (9), Senders (8), Batum (7), Brown (0), Christie (0), Niederhäuser (0).

Charlotte: Ball (25 + 9 rebounds), Knippel (18), Diabate (13 + 15 rebounds + 4 blocks), Miller (13), Bridges (11) – start; Menn (9), James (8).

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The Italian Basketball Federation (FIP) and the Serie A Basketball League (LBA) announced the club’s expulsion from the Italian championship. “Trapani Shark”.

According to the National Sports Judge, the team was expelled from the Italian league, also fined 600 thousand euros and its president Valerio Antonini was suspended from basketball for the next three months.

This decision was taken after two technical defeats against Virtus Bologna and Aquila Trento.

Trapani has experienced financial difficulties in recent months, resulting in most of the players leaving the club and the team suffering from a shortage of players to fill the full squad.

At the time of their elimination, the Sharks were 13th in Serie A with a 5-10 record and had reached the qualifying round of the Champions League.