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The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Dallas Mavericks, 107-104, in a thrilling overtime battle at American Airlines Center on Wednesday — capped by a last-second three-pointer. Not from LeBron James, Anthony Davis, or Russell Westbrook: but, rather, from undrafted rookie Austin Reaves. Just as they drew it up. https://twitter.com/ClutchPointsApp/status/1471320178088558592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1471320178088558592%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fclutchpoints.com%2Flakers-news-lebron-james-la-saved-by-austin-reaves-epic-game-winner-vs-mavs%2F Reaves has been the biggest surprise […]

The COVID-19 outbreak that has spread across the NBA has affected the Los Angeles Lakers traveling party, as multiple staff members — including coaches, players, and broadcasters — are now in the league’s health and safety protocols. Let’s get you caught up on the latest news before the Lakers face the Dallas Mavericks at the […]

Amidst a COVID-19 outbreak that has affected multiple members of the Los Angeles Lakers team, staff, and traveling party, the Lakers did get some good news on Anthony Davis ahead of their road matchup with the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday night. Davis, who has missed the past two games, with left knee soreness, will start […]

The Los Angeles Lakers have limited resources to make a move before the Feb. 10 trade deadline. This was a point of skepticism for those who questioned their bold roster reconstruction. The Lakers have three stars on massive contracts — LeBron James ($41 million), Anthony Davis ($36 million), and Russell Westbrook ($44 million). LeBron and […]

The Brooklyn Nets are short on bodies. Kyrie Irving remains unavailable due to vaccination status. Joe Harris is still recovering from ankle surgery. Both of those players’ names have popped up in trade rumors recently as well. And that was before a COVID-19 surge hit the fully vaccinated members of the team. Just about one […]

Trade season is just about underway in the NBA, as most teams have had a proper amount of time to gauge themselves. No surprise at all, one of the hottest names on the market right now is Philadelphia 76ers All-Star Ben Simmons. The 25-year-old has yet to suit up in a game this season, seemingly […]

The Portland Trail Blazers fell to the Phoenix Suns 111-107 in overtime on Tuesday night, extending their losing streak to six games. Even that depressing string of defeats, unfortunately, isn’t an accurate indication of the Blazers’ current depths. Portland is now 1-9 in its last 10 games and has lost five straight at Moda Center […]

The chase is over. Stephen Curry passed Ray Allen for the most 3-pointers made in NBA history. It came against the New York Knicks inside Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night. The Golden State Warriors won 105-96, but the evening was all about Curry. “This is something I’ve been dreaming about, and I don’t know […]

The Chicago Bulls are currently dealing with a massive COVID-19 outbreak that has postponed two of their games. The Bulls reached a whopping 10 players in the NBA’s health and safety protocols before the league finally stepped in to give the team a break. One of those players not in protocols is Nikola Vucevic (he […]

It has been a wild week for the Brooklyn Nets and we’re not even halfway through. On Monday, fans got some updates that there may be “renewed optimism” on a Kyrie Irving return. Shams Charania of The Athletic suggested that Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant have spoken recently and that may be where the newfound […]

Dwight Howard and Malik Monk joined Talen Horton-Tucker in the NBA’s health and safety protocols and will miss the Los Angeles Lakers’ game against the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday, the team announced on Tuesday night. Horton-Tucker was placed in health and safety protocols earlier on Tuesday after reportedly testing positive for COVID-19. The Lakers players […]

The Brooklyn Nets came into Tuesday already shorthanded, but they had no idea how things would look by the end of the day. Without Kyrie Irving who is unvaccinated and unavailable, without Joe Harris (ankle) who is injured, the team experienced a slew of positive COVID-19 tests over the last 24 hours. LaMarcus Aldridge, DeAndre’ […]

The Mecca of basketball is New York City’s Madison Square Garden. It’s the oldest arena in the NBA and the home of the New York Knicks. On Tuesday, MSG will be the home of Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry for one night. “It’s the Mecca. This is the place you ask every player in […]

Nearly 30 games into the NBA season and the 19-8 Brooklyn Nets are now dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak–this despite all of their active players being fully vaccinated. The lone member of the Nets who is not vaccinated, and not around the team is of course, seven-time All-Star Kyrie Irving. His absence has been the […]

Los Angeles Lakers wing Talen Horton-Tucker has tested positive for COVID-19 and will enter the NBA’s health and safety protocols. The Athletic’s Shams Charania reported THT’s status, which was soon confirmed by multiple outlets, then the Lakers. Per Shams, THT is expected to miss multiple games. Lakers guard Talen Horton-Tucker has entered health and safety […]

Wednesday is Dec. 15, and by now you’ve probably heard why that date is key. Newly signed free agents from last summer will become trade eligible, adding a major crop of names who can be included in deals between Wednesday and the Feb. 10 trade deadline. The Brooklyn Nets are 19-8 and in first place […]

Over their seven-game winning streak, the Houston Rockets seemed to adopt a quality that they haven’t yet shaken, which was seen in an incredible comeback victory over the Atlanta Hawks on Monday night. They’ve successfully been able to be competitive in all of their games since both Kevin Porter Jr. and Jalen Green went down. […]

The Los Angeles Clippers got a much-needed boost when they got Serge Ibaka back from injury in mid-November. The big man fought through his rehab following back surgery, asked to go down to the G League to work his way back into game shape, and did everything necessary to return to the lineup. The Clippers […]

Nowadays, it seems like every game between Chris Paul’s Phoenix Suns and the Los Angeles Clippers brings out some kind of drama. The first meeting between the two teams since the 2021 Western Conference Finals came on Monday night, and it did not disappoint. Without Paul George and Nicolas Batum, the Clippers defeated the Suns, […]

It was uncertain if Stephen Curry would play against the Indiana Pacers. Once he and the Golden State Warriors decided he would suit up, fans prepared to witness history. The moment Curry would pass Ray Allen on the 3-pointers made list had finally come. Not only did that not happen, but an unexpected Warriors teammate […]

Trade season is heating up, which means the Los Angeles Lakers — the only franchise, maybe outside the Miami Heat, that seemingly every player in the NBA would happily play for — are starting to be name-dropped into rumors, however unfeasible. The NBA trade deadline is Thursday, Feb. 10. On Dec. 15, a slew of […]

The LaMelo Ball-less Charlotte Hornets got off to a bad start in their road trip, with the Dallas Mavericks blowing them out in their Monday night showdown. Dallas’ size stifled everything the Hornets attempted to run offensively. The Hornets couldn’t find a lot of easy lanes to the basket and their shots just weren’t falling […]

The Los Angeles Lakers expect Trevor Ariza and Kendrick Nunn to be major contributors to their pursuit of an 18th NBA championship. Ariza was Russell Westbrook’s first call after Russ was traded to Los Angeles and was pegged as an opening day starter. Nunn, who averaged 15.0 points per game over his first two seasons, […]

Brooklyn Nets superstar Kyrie Irving hasn’t suited up yet this season due to local New York City vaccination mandates. The rules ban players from appearing in home games, although Nets brass huddled together months ago and decided they don’t want any part-time players. So, in essence, they decided that a seven-time All-Star and three-time All-NBA […]

Damian Lillard’s long-awaited return to the floor didn’t end the Portland Trail Blazers’ losing streak. Despite another defeat pushing them further down the Western Conference standings, though, the Blazers still received much-needed reasons for optimism on Sunday night — the biggest one just happened to come after their loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves. Portland fell […]

There are legitimate reasons why the Houston Rockets should trade Christian Wood by the upcoming trade deadline. But based off prior experience of trying to broach this subject with Rockets fans, it was known this would be a polarizing stance. Even with that knowledge in mind, it’s hard to anticipate the volume of reactions this piece […]

Don’t look now, but LeBron James, soon to be 37 years old, has been playing MVP-caliber basketball for the Los Angeles Lakers as of late. LeBron has dropped 30 points or more in six of his past eight games. He has averaged 29.8 points (52% shooting), 7.3 rebounds and 8.0 assists during that span. The […]

Kevin Durant entered Sunday’s game against the Detroit Pistons as an MVP candidate and as the NBA’s scoring leader, dropping 28.4 points per game. But in a road game without the resting James Harden, KD erupted for the most points any player has scored this season with 51 markers. The Brooklyn Nets superstar was locked […]

The Brooklyn Nets, 10-3 away from the comfy confines of Barclays Center, are road warriors, with an identity centered around the defensive end of the court. You’d be forgiven for not having predicted that before 2021-22 tipped off,  but here we are 26 games into the regular season. When you think of James Harden, Kevin […]

The Los Angeles Lakers, at long last, have defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder. In each of the first two meetings between a preseason championship favorite and a preseason favorite to land the no. 1 overall pick, the Thunder improbably erased deficits of 19+ points to upset Los Angeles. Not so on Friday in OKC. The […]

It may have been the best game of his young NBA career with the Toronto Raptors. No, Scottie Barnes didn’t explode for 25 points like he did earlier in the season against the Boston Celtics, but the completeness of his performance on both ends of the floor Friday night was a sight to behold. “He’s […]

The Charlotte Hornets edged past the Sacramento Kings, 124-123. They were able to snap their two-game losing streak, and it was all thanks to their lottery pick in this past years draft: James Bouknight. Bouknight finished with a career-high 24 points and six rebounds, all while shooting 6-of-8 from deep. With that, he joined LaMelo […]

Anthony Davis was a late scratch from the Los Angeles Lakers win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Friday after waking up with soreness in his left knee. Davis was initially listed as questionable. He got treatment on the knee before the game and was ruled out about an hour before tip-off. (Dwight Howard started […]

Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry is on the verge of breaking Hall of Famer Ray Allen’s NBA record for three-pointers made. His greatest rival, Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James — who won two titles with Allen — can’t wait to see it. Curry drilled six threes against the Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday, […]

The Los Angeles Lakers, once again, followed up a potential momentum-building victory with a discouraging dud. Two nights after their most complete performance of the season — a dialed-in and breezy win over the Boston Celtics — they put forth an uninspired performance against a short-handed Memphis Grizzlies bunch, falling 108-95. They’re back to .500 […]

After a discouraging defeat to the short-handed Memphis Grizzlies on Thursday, the Los Angeles Lakers — the preseason favorites to win the Western Conference — dropped back to .500 (13-13) 26 games into the 2021-22 season. More alarmingly, as The Athletic’s Bill Oram noted, they’ve only won two games against teams currently in the top-1o […]

Russell Westbrook, LeBron James, and the Los Angeles Lakers were not in good spirits following their deflating 108-95 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies, who were playing without Ja Morant, Brandon Clarke, and Dillon Brooks. After a promising and energized first quarter, the Lakers got careless—as in, they didn’t seem to care about protecting the basketball, […]

LeBron James was not happy after the Los Angeles Lakers lost to the Memphis Grizzlies in a sloppy, turnover-laden outing. He was somber and frustrated in his postgame press conference. However, he still found a way to flex his renowned photographic memory. James turned the ball over five times in the first half. The Lakers […]

The Portland Trail Blazers held a news conference on Thursday morning introducing longtime front-office executive Joe Cronin as the team’s interim general manager. Sitting next to Chauncey Billups and newly-minuted team president Dewayne Hankins, Cronin answered questions about the Blazers’ uncertain present and future with thoughtfulness, candor and humility that’s long been missing from the […]