{"id":482460,"date":"2024-04-27T23:37:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T03:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=482460"},"modified":"2024-04-27T23:37:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T03:37:00","slug":"lebron-notches-30-as-lakers-beat-nuggets-to-avoid-sweep","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lebron-notches-30-as-lakers-beat-nuggets-to-avoid-sweep\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron notches 30 as Lakers beat Nuggets to avoid sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James finished with 30 points, Anthony Davis had 25 points and 23 boards, and the LA Lakers avoided postseason elimination with a 119-108 win against the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\">Denver Nuggets<\/a><\/a><\/a> in Game 4 at crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, CA.<\/p>\n<p>D&#8217;Angelo Russell and Austin Reaves notched 21 points each for the 7<sup>th<\/sup>-seeded LA, who ended their 11-match losing streak vs. the defending league champs with their 1<sup>st<\/sup> victory against Denver since December 2022.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dig deep and fight back. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LakersWin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#LakersWin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Jsuj2mjQLP\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Jsuj2mjQLP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/los-angeles-lakers\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/los-angeles-lakers\/\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a><\/a> (@Lakers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lakers\/status\/1784418641397907477?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Nuggets swept Lakers out of the West Conference finals in the past campaign, but the current Lakers answered to this 0-3 trail with a performance like the ones that secured their place in the playoffs with 12 victories in 15 matches. LeBron notched 14 points in the 4<sup>th<\/sup> quarter on 6-of-8 shooting, again carrying Los Angeles in his 21<sup>st<\/sup> campaign in the league.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anthony Davis and LeBron James come up HUGE for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lakers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Lakers<\/a> to force a Game 5!<\/p>\n<p>AD: 25 PTS | 23 REB | 6 AST | 64.7 FG%<br \/>LBJ: 30 PTS | 5 REB | 4 AST | 60.9 FG% <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6yMjhswkI7\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/6yMjhswkI7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1784424770194268390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\">Nikola Jokic<\/a><\/a><\/a> finished with a triple-double \u2013 33 points, 14 boards, and 14 assists as that was his 2<sup>nd<\/sup> triple-double in the matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Game 5 is at the beginning of the week in Denver, as the Nuggets can close the series at home.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Porter Jr. notched 27 points and grabbed 11 boards for the Nuggets, and Jamal Murray finished with 22 points but failed to score from the 3-point line from 4 attempts.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tX_rthGa9hk?si=R_WBrtmzGefNngwU\" 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>LeBron James finished with 30 points, Anthony Davis had 25 points and 23 boards, and the LA Lakers avoided postseason elimination with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":482461,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16736,16970,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17859,17645,1067],"acf":{"announce":"Los Angeles defeated Denver 119-108 at crypto.com Arena.","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\/482460"}],"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=482460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482462,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/482460\/revisions\/482462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482460"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=482460"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=482460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}