LeBron James scored 30 points, Russell Westbrook He added 24 points and 11 assists and the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Boston Celtics 117-102 on Tuesday in a new episode of the NBA’s most notorious rivalry.
Anthony Davis contributed 17 points and 16 rebounds for the Lakers, who had one of their best recent nights and posted their fourth win in six games. James and Westbrook dominated the court and Los Angeles made 56.5% of their shots in the first three quarters, while suffocating Jayson Tatum’s assistants.
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Tatum had 14 of his 34 points on an incredible Celtics offense in the first quarter. The visitors fell to 1-2 on their four-game West Coast road trip. Jaylen Brown was out for the third night in a row with a hamstring strain in his right leg and no one else topped Robert Williams III’s 13 points for Boston.
The Lakers clinched a badly needed victory in the 296th edition of the duel between two venerable franchises, which accumulate 17 championships each and a record 12 clashes in the NBA Finals. Boston and Los Angeles split their season series 1-1 for the fifth year in a row following the Celtics’ victory last month, who prevailed with 37 points from Tatum.
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