{"id":8273,"date":"2024-12-17T23:55:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T23:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/lebron-james-returns-as-la-lakers-coast-to-win-against-memphis-grizzlies\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T23:55:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T23:55:59","slug":"lebron-james-returns-as-la-lakers-coast-to-win-against-memphis-grizzlies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/lebron-james-returns-as-la-lakers-coast-to-win-against-memphis-grizzlies\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James returns as LA Lakers coast to win against Memphis Grizzlies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James&#8217; performance helped the Lakers to a comfortable victory, with Anthony Davis scoring 40 points of his own.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked what the side hoped to gain from James&#8217; absence, Redick said: &#8220;Just hoping that he was getting a good mind and body reset. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I played 15 [seasons] and was emotionally, mentally, physically drained, fried. I put everything I had into this game. I had nothing left. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For guys like him and the Tom Bradys of the world, the Roger Federers of the world, it&#8217;s hard to comprehend having that level of sustained excellence for so long, because of the toll that it takes on all of you, not just your body.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Elsewhere, the Dallas Mavericks beat the Golden State Warriors 143-133 thanks to the 80th triple-double of Luka Doncic&#8217;s career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Slovenian put up a season-high 45 points with 13 assists and 11 rebounds. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/cgj6gz2j69xo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James&#8217; performance helped the Lakers to a comfortable victory, with Anthony Davis scoring 40 points of his own. Asked what the side hoped to gain from James&#8217; absence, Redick said: &#8220;Just hoping that he was getting a good mind and body reset. &#8220;I played 15 [seasons] and was emotionally, mentally, physically drained, fried. I put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8275,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8273\/revisions\/8275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}