{"id":491174,"date":"2025-03-20T03:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T07:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=491174"},"modified":"2025-03-20T03:07:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T07:07:00","slug":"doncic-shines-again-with-31-points-as-lakers-beat-nuggets-120-108","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/doncic-shines-again-with-31-points-as-lakers-beat-nuggets-120-108\/","title":{"rendered":"Doncic shines again with 31 points as Lakers beat Nuggets 120-108"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luka Don\u010di\u0107 delivered a dominant performance with 31 points, nine rebounds, and seven assists in just three quarters, leading the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/los-angeles-lakers\/\"><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><\/a> to a 120-108 victory over 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\/\"><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><\/a><\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams were missing key players, with Nikola Joki\u0107 (elbow) and Jamal Murray (ankle) sidelined for Denver, while LeBron James (hamstring) and Rui Hachimura (knee) remained out for Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Big-time games from <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/luka-doncic\/\">Luka Doncic<\/a><\/a><\/a> and Austin Reaves to lead the Lakers over the Nuggets for their third straight dub \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lR9WH92Fwl\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/lR9WH92Fwl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsCenter\/status\/1902578170567782656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Austin Reaves contributed 22 points and eight assists, helping the Lakers secure their ninth consecutive home win and third straight overall since their 0-4 road trip ended last Friday in Denver.<\/p>\n<p>Denver\u2019s Aaron Gordon led his team with 26 points, but the Lakers took control early, scoring a season-high 46 points in the first quarter. Don\u010di\u0107 was on fire, dropping 21 points in the opening period, his highest-scoring quarter this season.<\/p>\n<p>With Los Angeles up by 28 after three quarters, Don\u010di\u0107 got extra rest ahead of a busy stretch of five home games in seven days. Bronny James saw action in the final 3:58 of the game.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/05s9qrlEyUQ?si=HBGJPEboGbJpZe5T\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luka Don\u010di\u0107 delivered a dominant performance with 31 points, nine rebounds, and seven assists in just three quarters, leading the Los Angeles Lakers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":491175,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16736,16970,16747],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17859,17645,18115],"acf":{"announce":"Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray absence proved costly for Denver on Wednesday night","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\/491174"}],"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=491174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/491174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491176,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/491174\/revisions\/491176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491174"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=491174"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=491174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}