{"id":479309,"date":"2024-03-01T03:02:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T07:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=479309"},"modified":"2024-03-01T03:02:42","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T07:02:42","slug":"anthony-davis-40-points-hand-wizards-their-13th-straight-loss","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/anthony-davis-40-points-hand-wizards-their-13th-straight-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Davis&#8217; 40 points hand Wizards their 13th straight loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Davis delivered a stellar performance with 40 points, securing the Lakers&#8217; 134-131 overtime victory against the struggling Washington Wizards on Thursday night. LeBron James contributed 31 points and a crucial 3-poInter in overtime for the Lakers, as they claimed their ninth win in the last 12 games.<\/p>\n<p>James now stands just nine points away from a historic milestone, aiming to become the first player in NBA history to score 40,000 points.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a commendable effort by Jordan Poole, who scored a season-high 34 points, and Marvin Bagley III, who added a season-high 23, the Wizards extended their losing streak to 13 games. The game remained closely contested, and Washington displayed resilience against the Lakers. However, a series of missed shots and turnovers in overtime proved costly for the Wizards, as they went scoreless in the final 3:50.<\/p>\n<p>Former Lakers forward Kyle Kuzma contributed 20 points for the Wizards, but his missed 3-point attempt in the closing moments of overtime prevented them from forcing a tie. Corey Kispert also had a notable performance with 20 points for Washington.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lzJxZwTLq58?si=IYYBjeoxoLd-dBZ8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Davis delivered a stellar performance with 40 points, securing the Lakers&#8217; 134-131 overtime victory against the struggling Washington Wizards on Thursday night. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":479310,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17077,16970,17235],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[19253,17645,17978],"acf":{"announce":"Los Angeles beat Washington 131-131 in OT","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\/479309"}],"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\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479312,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479309\/revisions\/479312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479309"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=479309"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=479309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}