{"id":491557,"date":"2025-03-27T03:40:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T07:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=491557"},"modified":"2025-03-27T03:40:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T07:40:56","slug":"lebron-james-buzzer-beater-lifts-lakers-over-pacers-120-119","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lebron-james-buzzer-beater-lifts-lakers-over-pacers-120-119\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James&#8217; buzzer-beater lifts Lakers over Pacers, 120-119"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James sealed a dramatic win for the Los Angeles Lakers with a buzzer-beating tip-in, capping off a 10-point fourth quarter to edge the Indiana Pacers 120-119 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>James, who struggled through the first three quarters with just three points on 0-for-6 shooting, came alive late and extended his NBA-record streak of scoring 10 or more points to 1,283 games. He finished with 13 points, 13 rebounds, and seven assists.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">LEBRON JAMES WINS IT AT THE BUZZER \ud83d\udea8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AZ2xR9zQYA\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/AZ2xR9zQYA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1905079199380955250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Luka Don\u010di\u0107 led the way for the Lakers, posting 34 points, seven rebounds, and seven assists, including six three-pointers. Austin Reaves added 24 points as Los Angeles snapped a three-game losing streak and moved into a tie with Memphis for the fourth seed in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>On the Pacers\u2019 side, Bennedict Mathurin scored 23 points, while Tyrese Haliburton orchestrated the offense brilliantly with a season-high 18 assists and 16 points. Haliburton\u2019s clutch three-point play gave Indiana a 119-118 lead with 42.2 seconds left, capping a 7-0 run.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">LeBron James is now tied for 2nd most game-winning buzzer-beaters all-time, including reg. season and playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>He only trails MJ \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VNWbBX2pu1\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/VNWbBX2pu1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNNBA\/status\/1905097702989234241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Lakers led the entire second and third quarters and were still up 118-112 with 1:44 to go before Indiana\u2019s late rally. After Don\u010di\u0107 missed a floater in the final seconds, James crashed the glass and tipped in the game-winner at the buzzer, securing a thrilling road victory for the Lakers.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_tOvlnKaZNA?si=QitEobFrgTGlKp6Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James sealed a dramatic win for the Los Angeles Lakers with a buzzer-beating tip-in, capping off a 10-point fourth quarter to edge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":491558,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16971,16972,16970],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18386,17644,17645],"acf":{"announce":"Los Angeles star continued his amazing streak of games with at least 10 points to 1283 consecutive matches ","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\/491557"}],"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=491557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/491557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491559,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/491557\/revisions\/491559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491557"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=491557"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=491557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}