Lakers, Doncic win fifth straight, defeat Spurs without Reaves, James

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LA Lakers, playing without injured Austin Reaves and LeBron James, determination to 7-2 connected the play aft San Antonio victory.

Published On 6 Nov 2025

Luka Doncic had 35 points, 13 assists, 9 rebounds and 5 steals, and the Los Angeles Lakers rallied successful the 4th fourth earlier surviving a frantic last 2nd for their 5th consecutive victory, 118-116 implicit the San Antonio Spurs.

The Lakers finished the crippled connected Wednesday nighttime connected a 21-10 run, but the Spurs got 1 past accidental erstwhile Marcus Smart committed an inbound usurpation aft Kelly Olynyk’s putback layup with 1.2 seconds left.

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Justin Champagnie past drew a foul from Jake LaRavia portion trying to extremity successful the Spurs’ inbound pass, but Champagnie missed his archetypal escaped throw, and cipher could extremity successful the 2nd miss astatine the buzzer.

Deandre Ayton had 22 points and 10 rebounds for the Lakers, who extended their awesome commencement to the play with a furious rally from a nine-point shortage midway done the 4th quarter. Doncic scored 8 points successful the fourth, including a clutch go-ahead three-pointer with 2:31 to play.

Victor Wembanyama had 19 points and 8 rebounds earlier fouling retired with 1:39 to play for the Spurs, who person mislaid 2 consecutive aft a 5-0 start. Stephon Castle and Jeremy Sochan had 16 points apiece.

Doncic overcame a 9-for-27 shooting nighttime with different fistful of stellar plays arsenic the Lakers won a foul-plagued crippled betwixt 2 undermanned teams. Harrison Barnes and Sochan besides fouled retired successful the 4th quarter.

Los Angeles trailed 106-97 with conscionable implicit 7 minutes to play but got backmost successful it by holding San Antonio without a tract extremity for astir 4 and a fractional minutes.

Doncic’s 4th three-pointer enactment the Lakers up 113-112, and Wembanyama fouled retired connected a complaint drawn by Rui Hachimura 2 possessions later.

Austin Reaves missed his 2nd consecutive crippled with a hamstring injury, but Doncic returned aft his lack from the Lakers’ surprising triumph astatine Portland connected Monday. LeBron James, the NBA’s all-time starring scorer, is yet to play for the Lakers this play owed to ongoing sciatica rehabilitation.

Knicks, Nuggets stay cleanable astatine home; Rockets widen triumph streak

Jalen Brunson and Karl-Anthony Towns each posted double-doubles connected Wednesday nighttime for the New York Knicks, who remained cleanable astatine location this play by pulling distant from the Minnesota Timberwolves for a 137-114 victory.

Brunson (23 points, 10 assists, 7 rebounds) flirted with his archetypal vocation triple-double. He had 12 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists successful the 3rd 4th erstwhile the Knicks outscored the Timberwolves 40-28 to crook a four-point half-time shortage into a 94-86 lead.

Towns finished with 15 points and 10 rebounds successful his seventh double-double successful 8 games this play for the Knicks, who person won the archetypal 3 games of a seven-game homestand and are 5-0 wide astatine Madison Square Garden.

In Tennessee, Amen Thompson scored a season-high 28 points with 10 rebounds, and Alperen Sengun added 20 points and 16 boards to pb Houston to its 5th consecutive win, a 124-109 triumph implicit the big Memphis Grizzlies.

Thompson knocked down 13 of 26 changeable attempts portion distributing 7 assists to travel up connected his 27-point, five-rebound, four-assist effort successful Houston’s triumph implicit the Dallas Mavericks connected Monday.

The Rockets person defeated their past 5 opponents by an mean of 19.2 points.

In Denver, Nikola Jokic produced 33 points, 16 assists and 15 rebounds, and Aaron Gordon scored 24 points arsenic the big Denver Nuggets remained unbeaten astatine location with a 122-112 triumph implicit the Miami Heat.

Tim Hardaway Jr scored 18 points disconnected the bench. Jamal Murray contributed 14 points. Christian Braun finished with 11 points, and Peyton Watson grabbed a career-high 10 rebounds for Denver. The Nuggets person won 11 consecutive regular play games against Miami.