{"id":1583,"date":"2023-11-18T12:20:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T12:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nba-lebron-james-stars-to-help-la-lakers-beat-portland-trail-blazers\/"},"modified":"2023-11-18T12:20:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T12:20:35","slug":"nba-lebron-james-stars-to-help-la-lakers-beat-portland-trail-blazers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nba-lebron-james-stars-to-help-la-lakers-beat-portland-trail-blazers\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA: LeBron James stars to help LA Lakers beat Portland Trail Blazers"},"content":{"rendered":"


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LeBron James is playing in his 21st NBA campaign<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LeBron James equalled his season-high score of 35 points as the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Portland Trail Blazers 107-95 in the NBA in-season tournament.<\/span><\/p>\n

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James also registered nine assists for the Lakers, who lead their group with three wins from three games.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Victor Wembanyama’s San Antonio Spurs lost 129-120 to the Sacramento Kings and, having lost all three group games so far, cannot make the knockout stage.<\/span><\/p>\n

De’Aaron Fox scored a season-high 43 points for the Kings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Each team play four games in their group, and games in the in-season tournament count towards a team’s 82-game regular-season schedule. <\/span><\/p>\n

Spurs’ defeat was their seventh in a row overall – but 19-year-old French sensation Wembanyama, who scored 27 points against the Kings, believes they will recover.<\/span><\/p>\n

“All of us, we know we’re on a good path,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Of course it’s hard to be patient sometimes, but it’s an everyday fight. I know that the end of the season will not look like the beginning of the season.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Charlotte Hornets’ Miles Bridges played his first NBA game since April 2022 as they were defeated 130-99 by the Milwaukee Bucks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bridges missed the whole of the 2022-23 season, having not signed an NBA contract <\/span>after being arrested and charged<\/span>external-link<\/title><\/svg><\/span><\/a> over a domestic violence incident, to which he subsequently entered a ‘no contest’ plea – where a defendant does not admit guilt, but accepts punishment as if they had.<\/span><\/p>\n

The NBA suspended him for 30 games without pay as a result of the incident, but it was deemed that he had served 20 games of the ban by sitting out last season. That left him with a 10-game ban to serve at the start of this season.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bridges came off the bench to score 17 points in 33 minutes for the Hornets in defeat.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Kevin Durant scored 38 points, including a three-pointer with 18.8 seconds left, to help the Phoenix Suns beat the Utah Jazz 131-128.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Boston Celtics were 108-105 winners against the Toronto Raptors, while Orlando Magic beat the Chicago Bulls 103-97.<\/span><\/p>\n

Joel Embiid registered 32 points, eight assists and seven rebounds to help Philadelphia 76ers to a 126-116 win against the Atlanta Hawks.<\/span><\/p>\n

The new in-season tournament involves a group stage in which 30 teams have been randomly split into six groups of five.<\/span><\/p>\n

Teams in each group will play each other once before a knockout stage of eight sides.<\/span><\/p>\n

The quarter-finals will be made up of the six group winners and two teams from each conference who have the best group records in second place.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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