The Los Angeles Lakers did not want LeBron James to win a double-overtime thriller.
Anthony Davis and Austin Reaves led the group to a 128-124 win over the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday, erasing a 19-point, fourth-quarter lead simply to pressure the primary additional time. To achieve the second additional time, Davis needed to snuff out a would-be game-winner from Damian Lillard.
The win improves the Lakers’ report to 6-4 this season with out James.
Davis posted 34 factors, 23 rebounds, 4 blocks, two steals and two assists in a career-high 52 minutes, whereas Reaves had a triple-double with 29 factors, 14 rebounds and 10 assists. D’Angelo Russell had 29 factors and 12 assists.
That trio mixed to attain all however two of the Lakers’ factors within the fourth quarter, during which the Bucks led 94-75 at one level. There was lots to remorse for Milwaukee, however Giannis Antetokounmpo’s 1-for-6 night time on the free-throw line stood out because the Lakers took management within the second additional time.
It was a worse day on the workplace for Lillard, who shot 9 of 29 from the sphere (3 of 14 from 3-point vary) for 27 factors. His lone factors of the second additional time got here on a breakaway dunk off a steal.
This is not even the primary time the Lakers have shocked the Bucks sans James this month, as there was additionally a 123-122 win at Crypto.com Enviornment on March 8. That was the sport during which Russell posted 44 factors.
The win, the Lakers’ fourth straight, improves the group’s report to 40-32, holding them in ninth place within the Western Convention and two video games again from the Phoenix Suns for eighth place.