{"id":52391,"date":"2026-05-12T06:59:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/la-lakers-110-115-oklahoma-city-thunder-lebron-james-future-unclear-after-play-off-defeat\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T06:59:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:59:29","slug":"la-lakers-110-115-oklahoma-city-thunder-lebron-james-future-unclear-after-play-off-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/la-lakers-110-115-oklahoma-city-thunder-lebron-james-future-unclear-after-play-off-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Lakers 110-115 Oklahoma City Thunder: LeBron James future unclear after play-off defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"


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James scored 24 points at Crypto.com Arena in LA, while Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the current MVP, scored 35 points and contributed eight assists for the Thunder.<\/p>\n

The Thunder, who beat the Phoenix Suns 4-0 in the first round of the play-offs, will play the Minnesota Timberwolves or the San Antonio Spurs – their semi is level at 2-2 – in the Western Conference final.<\/p>\n

In the Eastern Conference semi-finals, the Cleveland Cavaliers earned a 112-103 home win against the Detroit Pistons to level their series at 2-2.<\/p>\n

Donovan Mitchell scored 43 points at Rocket Arena for the Cavs, who lost the first two games in the series.<\/p>\n

Mitchell scored 39 in the second half, equalling the record – set by Eric Floyd of the Golden State Warriors in 1987 – for the most points in one half of a post-season game.<\/p>\n

The Cavs or the Pistons will play the New York Knicks in the Eastern Conference final.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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James scored 24 points at Crypto.com Arena in LA, while Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the current MVP, scored 35 points and contributed eight assists for the Thunder. The Thunder, who beat the Phoenix Suns 4-0 in the first round of the play-offs, will play the Minnesota Timberwolves or the San Antonio Spurs – their semi is level […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[297,1621,87,2112,14897,1650,296,5566,7252,8743],"class_list":["post-52391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-city","tag-defeat","tag-future","tag-james","tag-lakers","tag-lebron","tag-oklahoma","tag-playoff","tag-thunder","tag-unclear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52393,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52391\/revisions\/52393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}