{"id":412328,"date":"2023-02-12T02:09:52","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T07:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412328"},"modified":"2023-02-12T05:22:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T10:22:58","slug":"lakers-topple-mediocre-warriors-despite-lebron-james-absence","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lakers-topple-mediocre-warriors-despite-lebron-james-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers topple mediocre Warriors despite LeBron James absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers ended a run of three defeats with a narrow 109-103 win over the Golden State Warriors despite missing injured LeBron James.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">W. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FVV6ttgkVW\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/FVV6ttgkVW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lakers\/status\/1624622146654990336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>James, the NBA&#8217;s all-time leading points scorer, missed the match with an ankle problem.<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Schroder top-scored for the Lakers with 26 points, while Jordan Poole netted 29 for the Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams delivered an ugly first quarter of basketball, making less than 40% of their shots from the field in spite of lackluster defensive efforts on both sides of the ball. The Warriors led 22-21 at the end of the quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The quality of play marginally improved as the game went on, but two of the biggest brands in the NBA did not live up to their reputations.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yessir. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sLxUS1OY6j\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/sLxUS1OY6j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lakers\/status\/1624627063704662016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With the match tied in the final quarter, Lakers&#8217; Rui Hachimura scored to beat the NBA champions.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Davis secured 13 rebounds and made two important defensive blocks in the final two minutes for the Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>The Warriors are back in action on Monday, when they are set to host the Washington Wizards.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\">\n<div  id=\"_ytid_19725\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" data-facadesrc=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RYhkrMs8zgA?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;controls=1&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-facade epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" data-epautoplay=\"1\" ><img decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"YouTube player\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/RYhkrMs8zgA\/maxresdefault.jpg\" title=\"\"><button class=\"epyt-facade-play\" aria-label=\"Play\"><svg data-no-lazy=\"1\" height=\"100%\" version=\"1.1\" viewBox=\"0 0 68 48\" width=\"100%\"><path class=\"ytp-large-play-button-bg\" d=\"M66.52,7.74c-0.78-2.93-2.49-5.41-5.42-6.19C55.79,.13,34,0,34,0S12.21,.13,6.9,1.55 C3.97,2.33,2.27,4.81,1.48,7.74C0.06,13.05,0,24,0,24s0.06,10.95,1.48,16.26c0.78,2.93,2.49,5.41,5.42,6.19 C12.21,47.87,34,48,34,48s21.79-0.13,27.1-1.55c2.93-0.78,4.64-3.26,5.42-6.19C67.94,34.95,68,24,68,24S67.94,13.05,66.52,7.74z\" fill=\"#f00\"><\/path><path d=\"M 45,24 27,14 27,34\" fill=\"#fff\"><\/path><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Lakers ended a run of three defeats with a narrow 109-103 win over the Golden State Warriors despite missing injured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412329,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16989,16972,16970,17235],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"NBA's all-time leading points scorer, missed the match with an ankle problem","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412328"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412328"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}