(Basketball news) The Los Angeles Lakers lost yet another match to the in form Sacramento Kings 116-111. For the Kings, Harrison Barnes added 20 points and Kevin Huerter had 18 points as De’Aaron Fox scored 32 points while Richaun Harris, who started in place of Sabonis and had a season-high 16 points and 11 rebounds. For the Lakers, LeBron James led the scoring with 32 points and Russell Westbrook added 19 as Nunn had 14 points off the bench, including four 3-pointers. The Lakers have dropped four of five with their last three losses coming by a total of 10 points. While the Kings won their 5th straight game to help them move into third place in the Western Conference with a record of 25-18.
”It was a good win by our guys. We’ve been saying all year we feel like we are a deep team,” Brown said. ”Having that next man up mentality has been huge for us.
”Domantas isn’t a guy you can replace as one person,” Harris said. ”We wanted to step up as committee and I wanted to control the glass as much as I could.”
”We’re definitely a ballclub that has zero room for error. We have to continue to play how we played the last couple of games and trying to play mistake-free basketball,” James said.
”Late in the game our fouling, not being disciplined, showing our hands all the way throughout the possession was pretty tough as well,” Lakers coach Darvin Ham said. ”We got up against the clock, a too much indecisiveness in terms of shooting it, passing it or driving.”
The Denver Nuggets continued their hot streak of form as they beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 122-118. For the Nuggets, Jokic finished with 31 points, 13 assists and 11 rebounds as the two-time reigning NBA MVP passed Alex English for the most assists in team history. Jokic has 3,686 career assists in 568 games as the Englishman recorded 3,679 over 837 games in a Denver uniform. For the Wolves, Kyle Anderson finished with 13 points and 11 rebounds while C Naz Reid had 17 points as he started instead of Rudy Gobert who is sidelined with an injury, Anthony Edwards scored 16 points. With this result the Nuggets maintained their lead at the top of the Western Conference table with a record of 32-13.
”We clapped a little bit,” said Murray, who finished with 28 points. ”That’s a lot of passes. That’s pretty impressive.”
”I knew that eventually my all time assist record would be broken. I’m honored to see that it’s 2 time, I mean 3 time MVP of the NBA do it. Congrats big fella,” English posted on his Twitter account.
”When you have a lot of assists, it just shows that you’re a good team player,” said Jokic, whose teammates plan to sign the ball for him. ”That’s something I want to be. I want everybody to remember me as a guy who was a really good team player.”
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