{"id":509857,"date":"2026-03-15T04:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=509857"},"modified":"2026-03-15T04:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T08:51:15","slug":"lakers-secure-dramatic-overtime-127-125-win-vs-the-nuggets","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lakers-secure-dramatic-overtime-127-125-win-vs-the-nuggets\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers secure dramatic overtime 127-125 win vs. the Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a game in which every basketballer on the Los Angeles Lakers made a big play to lift them to a 127-125 OT triumph against the Denver Nuggets, perhaps none was as crucial as Austin Reaves&#8217; missed shot.<\/p>\n<p>He intentionally missed a shot from the throw line with less than 6 seconds left of the regular time.<\/p>\n<p>Austin grabbed the rebound after his missed shot and scored to even the result 118-118 with less than 2 seconds on the clock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI missed on purpose,\u201d Austin revealed, who led Los Angeles with 32 points, scoring at least 30 for a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> consecutive match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReaves did phenomenally to allow us to force overtime,\u201d Luka shared. \u201cThat was phenomenal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Doncic did his part for the victory as the Slovenian was crucial during overtime when the result was even, he notched an 18-foot step-back, fadeaway jump shot with 0.5 remaining for the triumph. Then, on the Nuggets\u2019 possession, Doncic blocked ex-teammate Tim Hardaway Jr.&#8217;s 3-pointer.<\/p>\n<p>Luka finished the game with 30 points, 13 assists, and 11 boards for his 8<sup>th<\/sup> triple-double in the current campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JJ Redick on LeBron diving for the ball:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told him I\u2019ve never seen him do that in his 23 year career. Game winning play.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zJQ8oLKZOJ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zJQ8oLKZOJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LakersMuse (@LALMuse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LALMuse\/status\/2033030124027642056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 15, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a game in which every basketballer on the Los Angeles Lakers made a big play to lift them to a 127-125 OT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":509858,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16736,16970],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[17859,17645],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Los Angeles with important victory against Denver.","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\/509857"}],"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=509857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509859,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509857\/revisions\/509859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509857"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=509857"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=509857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}