Lakers head coach Darvin Ham took key timeouts whenever the Wizards got going, and the Lakers were able to permanently close the door thanks to AD continuing to dominate the paint. He had 16 points in the quarter and with the Lakers up by 24 after three, the game appeared to be in the refrigerator.īut Washington still had some fight in them and got the deficit as low as 11, but the advantage the Lakers had built earlier was ultimately too much to overcome. AD continued to terrorize the Wizards with putback dunks and offensive rebounds, all while scoring a key basket anytime the Wizards made anything that resembled a run. Walker was hot from three, going 4-4 from downtown and having two highlight dunks in the quarter. Los Angeles started the third on a 13-4 run as Washington had no answer for the Lakers’ offensive firepower. With both playing this well, victory felt inevitable.Īnd it was, although not before a bit of a late scare. LeBron and AD were sensational, with a combined 39 points, 12 rebounds and each had a plus/minus of +16. Daniel Gafford attacked the paint during the non-AD minutes and scored the first 8 points of the quarter for Washington, but that was the only bright spot the Wizards had in the first half. They extended their lead to 21 at one point and ended the half ahead, 68-50. Up by six entering the second, the Lakers never took their foot off the gas. The Lakers are still sub-.500, but if he continues this trajectory, he will be in MVP talks and could make 2002-23 a career year. Los Angeles was able to secure a comfortable six-point lead after one, partly because Davis also came out strong again, scoring 10 points in the first. He went to the locker room and never returned. For Washington, the game changed early when Bradley Beal injured his hamstring. In the first ten games of the season, they averaged 22.3% from deep and in the last ten, they’ve improved to 37.2%. started the game off right with three-pointers from LeBron and Walker. All three helped the Lakers move to 10-12 overall, and undefeated to start this road trip. LeBron James added a “quiet” 29 points, 8 rebounds in his 34 minutes of play, and Lonnie Walker IV continues to make the case as the third-best player on this team with 20 points on 70% shooting. Anthony Davis continued his recent dominant run, setting a new season-high in scoring for the second consecutive game and establishing a new Laker-high with 55 points (his career-high is 59) to go with 17 rebounds on the night. The other year, they took the title in the bubble as West's top seed in 2020.The Los Angeles Lakers took care of the Washington Wizards early on Sunday night, blowing them out 130-119. That is not to say LeBron and his teams have not had a few clunkers along the way, but we have to look back a bit, as in the four seasons prior to this one in LA, the Lakers have missed the playoffs twice and fallen as the 7th seed to the 2nd seeded Suns in 2020-21. Here are LeBron's stats in the playoffs vs. the regular season.įor his career, LeBron has pretty much maintained his same level of production in the playoffs despite facing better teams and lower-tempo games. Given these exits above, some may ask the question about LeBron's production in the playoffs vs. Questions arose whether the whole of the Heat would ever match the sum of their superstar parts. He had a particularly miserable 3-11 shooting performance for 8 points in Game 4, the first time he had ever failed to hit double digits in a playoff game. LeBron scored 24 in Game 1, which became his series high. The Mavs dropped Game 1 then throttled the Heat, winning the series in six. They lost only three games total getting to the Finals, but faced an upstart Mavericks team in the Finals, led by HOF great Dirk Nowitzki in his absolute prime. LeBron took his talents to South Beach, hooking up with fellow superstars Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, and it looked like the Heat would cakewalk to a title. In Game 5, he had a particularly bad 15-point performance on 3-of-14 shooting. He shot 50% or less from the field in all but a 38-point explosion in Game 3, went just 7-26 from beyond the arc, and only hit double figures in rebounds and assists once in the series. Unlike the prior season, LeBron just flat out had a poor series, albeit against a terrific team. Cleveland beat the Bulls in the first round but then fell in six games to the Celtics. There were just no other stars in Cleveland at the time, and unless the Cavs won a title, it looked like LeBron would have to move on to get a shot at a ring. The Cavs slipped a shade to 61 wins but still went into the playoffs as the top overall seed with Kobe and the Lakers again leading the West. 2009-10 Cavaliers - LeBron Struggles vs Bulls LeBron did his part overall, averaging 38.7 PPG, 8.3 RPG, and 8 APG, though he had a relatively poor deciding Game 6, scoring "only" 25 points on 8-12 shooting.Ģ.
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