By Field Level Media
Nov 02 (Field Level Media) – Luka Doncic scored 45 points and grabbed 15 rebounds, Austin Reaves added 19 points, and the Los Angeles Lakers finished off a 131-125 victory over the visiting Toronto Raptors on Sunday.
Walker Kessler scored 16 points with 15 rebounds and three blocked shots, while Collin Sexton added 14 points as the Lakers bounced back from blowing a 25-point lead in a road loss to the Golden State Warriors on Friday. Los Angeles led by as many as 26 points Sunday before surviving a late Toronto rally.
The Lakers shot 53.8% from the floor and 48.6% from 3-point range but committed 24 turnovers while improving to 3-1 at home. Doncic went 8-for-12 from long range to match his season high for 3-pointers made.
Scottie Barnes scored 29 points, and RJ Barrett added 22 points and 10 rebounds as the Raptors fell to 1-3 since Kawhi Leonard sustained a knee injury. Jamison Battle scored 20 points, and Immanuel Quickley added 12 as Toronto lost in the opener of a four-game road trip.
Celtics 108, Magic 97
Jayson Tatum scored a game-high 32 points to help visiting Boston defeat Orlando and extend its winning streak to five games.
Tatum was 8 of 19 from the field and made 15 of 17 free-throw attempts. The Magic made 15 free throws total on 19 attempts. Paul George had 17 points, six rebounds and eight assists for the Celtics.
Orlando got 23 points and 10 rebounds from Tristan da Silva and 23 points and eight rebounds from Anthony Black. Desmond Bane added 19 points.
Warriors 124, Clippers 112
Rookie Yaxel Lendeborg drained six 3-pointers on his way to a career-high 37 points, and Golden State, despite resting Stephen Curry and Draymond Green, recorded their fourth consecutive win, 124-112 over Los Angeles in San Francisco.
Playing on the same court where the Golden State Valkyries captured the WNBA championship 24 hours earlier, the Warriors got 21 points from De’Anthony Melton and 17 apiece from Brandon Williams and Brandin Podziemski on the front end of a back-to-back. Curry and Green are expected to return when Golden State hosts the Phoenix Suns on Monday night.
Rui Hachimura hit four 3-pointers and scored a team-high 24 points for the Clippers, who dropped their fifth consecutive game. Darius Garland recorded a team-high seven assists to go with 15 points. Reserves Kobe Sanders and Nick Martinelli added 16 and 10 points, respectively.
Nets 98, Pacers 90
Michael Porter Jr. scored 23 points to help Brooklyn notch its first win by beating Indiana in Indianapolis.
Julius Randle added 20 points and Nolan Traore scored 16 for the Nets, who opened the season 0-5. Day’Ron Sharpe collected 15 points and 13 rebounds and Moritz Wagner chipped in 14 points off the bench.
Andrew Nembhard led the Pacers with 23 points, followed by Pascal Siakam’s 17 and Quenton Jackson’s 12. Aaron Nesmith and Kelly Oubre Jr. had 11 apiece for Indiana, which dropped its fourth straight game.
(–Field Level Media)
