{"id":481615,"date":"2024-04-06T18:25:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T22:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=481615"},"modified":"2024-04-06T18:25:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T22:25:51","slug":"lakers-win-4th-consecutive-match-as-they-defeat-cavs-116-97","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lakers-win-4th-consecutive-match-as-they-defeat-cavs-116-97\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers win 4th consecutive match as they defeat Cavs 116-97"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>D\u2019Angelo Russell notched 28 points, superstar LeBron James had 24 points, and the LA Lakers extended their triumphing streak to 4 with a 116-97 win against the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/cleveland-cavaliers\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/cleveland-cavaliers\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/cleveland-cavaliers\/\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a><\/a><\/a> at crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, CA, moving into 8<sup>th<\/sup> place in the West.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Davis finished the match with 22 points and 13 boards in his team\u2019s 9<sup>th<\/sup> victory in 10 games.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Lakers have won nine of their last ten games. <\/p>\n<p>With its 116-97 win over the Cavaliers, Los Angeles (45-33) will temporarily jump the Sacramento Kings (44-33) for No. 8 in the West.<\/p>\n<p>That is the highest the Lakers have been in the standings since Dec. 29, 2023. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MPhLCsSRxi\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/MPhLCsSRxi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Athletic (@TheAthletic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthletic\/status\/1776735494950257006?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Darius Garland notched 26 points for Cavs and Caris LeVert scored 21 off the bench. Cleveland remained 3<sup>rd<\/sup> in the Eastern Conference but were defeated in 2 consecutive games and in 3 of their last 4.<\/p>\n<p>Russell scored 6 times beyond the arc, including five 3-pointers in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half, when his 23 points helped Los Angeles to take a 9-point advantage.<\/p>\n<p>LeBron improved to 18-4 vs. his ex-organization, where he spent 11 years in 2 different stints.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony notched 11 points in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> quarter, including 9 during the Lakers 19-0 run in that period. Cavs led 71-67 before Los Angeles series began and they secured the control of the match.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland remains in California to play against the Clippers tomorrow, while Los Angeles welcomes Minnesota also tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U4Xi-fqvYmo?si=6hetP3uH1sz4cFaM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D\u2019Angelo Russell notched 28 points, superstar LeBron James had 24 points, and the LA Lakers extended their triumphing streak to 4 with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":481616,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17531,16970,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18066,17645,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Russell and James helped Los Angeles to beat Cleveland.","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\/481615"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481619,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481615\/revisions\/481619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481615"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481615"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}