NBA: Lakers rally past Grizzlies as Phoenix steal Oklahoma’s thunder

Luka Doncic scored 36 points with 9 rebounds and 8 assists, and LeBron James added 26 points with 10 assists arsenic the Los Angeles Lakers rallied for a 120-114 triumph implicit the Memphis Grizzlies successful the National Basketball Association (NBA) league.

Jake LaRavia besides scored 26 points, and Deandre Ayton added 15 arsenic ⁠the Lakers followed a 128-121 triumph implicit the Grizzlies connected Friday with different 1 connected Sunday.

The consecutive victories came aft Los Angeles mislaid 4 of their erstwhile 5 contests.

Jaylen Wells scored 23 points for Memphis, and rookie Cedric Coward scored 16 points with 9 rebounds, each successful the archetypal half, but did not play aft half-time due to the fact that of an ankle injury.

Jaren Jackson Jr scored 14 points, and Jock Landale had 13 points with 10 rebounds for the Grizzlies, who mislaid their 4th consecutive game.

Memphis defender Ja Morant was retired with a calf wounded for the 15th clip implicit the past 21 games.

Devin Booker drilled the game-winning three-pointer successful the last 2nd arsenic the Phoenix Suns rallied to soundlessness the NBA champions, the Oklahoma City Thunder, 108-105 connected Sunday.

Luka Doncic led the scoring for the LA Lakers implicit the Memphis Grizzlies successful Los Angeles [Ethan Swope/AP Photo]

Meanwhile, the Phoenix Suns erased an aboriginal 18-point shortage to bushed the Thunder.

Devin Booker drilled the game-winning three-pointer successful the last 2nd arsenic the Suns rallied to soundlessness the league-leaders with a 108-105 scoreline.

For Phoenix, Booker scored 24 points and handed retired 9 assists, and Dillon Brooks added 22, including a three-pointer implicit his Canadian teammate and Oklahoma City’s reigning NBA Most Valuable Player, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, with 36 seconds remaining.

That gave Phoenix a 105-101 lead, but Oklahoma City tied it astatine 105-105 with 8.2 seconds near earlier Booker connected.

Gilgeous-Alexander led the Thunder with 25 points, and Jalen Williams added 23, but the Suns snapped Oklahoma City’s four-game winning streak.

The Thunder’s 30-6 grounds remains the champion successful the league, portion Detroit boosted their Eastern Conference pb with a 114-110 triumph implicit the Cleveland Cavaliers that moved the Pistons to 26-9.

Cade Cunningham scored 27 points, and reserve Daniss Jenkins added 25, including 21 successful a dazzling 2nd 4th for Detroit.

Star defender Cunningham added six rebounds, 7 assists, 2 steals and a blocked changeable arsenic the Pistons shrugged disconnected the wounded absences of cardinal contributors Tobias Harris, Jalen Duren and Caris LeVert.

But Jenkins stole the amusement with his monster 2nd 4th successful which helium made each 7 of his shots, including six three-pointers.

Phoenix Suns defender Devin Booker, left, celebrates with guardant Dillon Brooks aft hitting the winning changeable against the Oklahoma City Thunder successful Phoenix [Rick Scuteri/AP Photo]

Over successful the Eastern Conference, the Cavs, led by 30 points from Donovan Mitchell, whittled a 13-point shortage to 2 with 1:16 remaining and were wrong 2 again with 3.8 seconds left, but Jenkins made 2 escaped throws to seal it.

The Cavaliers, touted astatine the commencement of the play arsenic contenders successful the East, finished the time eighth successful the standings aft being overtaken by the Miami Heat, who bushed the New Orleans Pelicans 125-106.

The Indiana Pacers matched a franchise grounds for futility with their 12th consecutive defeat, falling 135-127 to the Magic successful Orlando.

The Pacers person been a shadiness of the squad that fell successful past season’s NBA Finals, with a drawstring of players deed by injuries since prima Tyrese Haliburton suffered a torn Achilles tendon successful the title series.

Pacers guardant Pascal Siakam led each scorers with 34 points, but the Magic – led by 31 points from Desmond Bane – seized power with a 17-0 tally successful the 2nd 4th and held connected successful the look of a precocious Pacers surge.

The Brooklyn Nets took vantage of Denver prima Nikola Jokic’s lack to bushed the Nuggets 127-115.

In their 3rd crippled since Jokic’s injury, the Nuggets fell contempt the instrumentality of Christian Braun and Aaron Gordon from agelong wounded absences.

Jamal Murray led Denver with 27 points and acceptable a vocation precocious with 16 assists. Braun finished with 3 points successful 24 minutes portion Gordon had 20 points successful 21 minutes.

But without three-time Most Valuable Player Jokic, it was not enough, acknowledgment mostly to the efforts of erstwhile Nugget Michael Porter Jr, who scored 27 points and grabbed 11 rebounds successful his archetypal gathering with the Nuggets since helium was traded successful July.