{"id":492406,"date":"2025-04-12T02:19:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T06:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=492406"},"modified":"2025-04-12T02:19:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T06:19:35","slug":"lakers-dominate-rockets-clinch-no-3-seed-and-division-title","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lakers-dominate-rockets-clinch-no-3-seed-and-division-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers dominate Rockets, clinch No. 3 seed and division title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-start=\"67\" data-end=\"500\">Luka Don\u010di\u0107 dropped 39 points along with eight rebounds and seven assists to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a dominant 140-109 win over the short-handed Houston Rockets on Friday night. With the victory, the Lakers secured the No. 3 seed in the Western Conference playoffs and won the Pacific Division \u2014 only the second time they\u2019ve done so in the last 13 seasons. It also marked just their second 50-win season in the last 14 years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mood \ud83d\ude03 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EdVi3XSukq\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/EdVi3XSukq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lakers\/status\/1910921958134325710?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"502\" data-end=\"765\">Austin Reaves added 23 points for Los Angeles, while LeBron James scored 14 before sitting out the final 19 minutes of the game. Don\u010di\u0107, too, only played through the third quarter before resting, as the Lakers cruised to their sixth win in their last eight games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"767\" data-end=\"869\">The comfortable win means James and Don\u010di\u0107 will get at least a week of rest before the playoffs begin.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Luka Doncic is the fastest player in Lakers history to reach 100 3PM. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vSWo83HCcu\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/vSWo83HCcu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Real Sports (@realapp_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realapp_\/status\/1910897969714376741?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"871\" data-end=\"1171\">The Rockets were missing most of their core players, with Alperen \u015eeng\u00fcn, Dillon Brooks, Fred VanVleet, Amen Thompson, Jabari Smith Jr., Tari Eason, and Jae\u2019Sean Tate all out. That left Houston without six of their top seven scorers. Still, rookie Cam Whitmore stood out with a career-high 34 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1173\" data-end=\"1242\">Bronny James, LeBron\u2019s son, checked into the game for the final 4:23.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1173\" data-end=\"1242\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ixtba7lS3Bs?si=9RnNQnHP2-UZGAVl\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luka Don\u010di\u0107 dropped 39 points along with eight rebounds and seven assists to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a dominant 140-109 win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":492407,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17044,16970,16747],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18346,17645,18115],"acf":{"announce":"Luka Doncic led Los Angeles with 39 points for the 140-109 win on Friday 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\/492406"}],"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=492406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492408,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492406\/revisions\/492408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492406"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=492406"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=492406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}