Basketball
Great LeBron led the Lakers to victory by toppling the Jazz
With LeBron James stopping at 33 points, the Lakers clinched a hearts victory over the Jazz 106-101, returning from -14. Davis was injured.
Anthony Davis left early in the second period with a serious sprain. The Lakers were -14 (61-75) in the third period. And yet, in the end, they managed to stop the match and beat the Jazz 106-101, with Austin Rivers scoring the biggest shot of the match to make the score 103-99 with 44 seconds left.
LeBron James was the winners’ leader with 33 points, with Davis scoring 17 before elimination and Russell Westbrook adding another 17 points – and 3/4 shots in the end.
For the Jazz, Donovan Mitchell had 37 points and Bojan Bogdanovic had 15 points.
THE TWELVE MINUTES: 27-27, 46-53, 71-79, 106-101
LAKERS: Davis 17 (1), Johnson 4, James 33 (3/8 3-pointers, 8 rebounds, 6 assists), Westbrook 17 (1 3-pointers, 7 rebounds, 6 assists, 5 errors), Monk 13 (2 3 -Pointers, 5 rebounds), Ariza 3 (1), Basemore 3 (1), Howard 4 (5 rebounds), Ellington, Reeves 9 (1), Horton-Tucker 3 (1/6 shot, 5 rebounds)
JAZZ: O’Neill 10 (2 threes, 7 rebounds), Bogdanovic 15 (5/14 shots, 3 threes), Gomber 5 (11 rebounds), Conley 6 (2/9 shots, 5 assists), Mitchell 37 (5 threes, 5 assists), Pascal 2, House, Whiteside 7 (8 rebounds), Clarkson 13 (6/14 shots, 1/6 3-pointers), Forrest 6
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