Los Angeles Lakers

Your Los Angeles Lakers lost a heartbreaker at home to Damian Lillard and his Portland Trail Blazers. L.A. coughed up a seven-point advantage in the game's.

Given how few scorers the Lakers have, James will probably need to surpass that record on Wednesday when L.A. will face off against a tanking Utah Jazz team on Friday, November 4th, though as of this writing Utah started out its season 2-0, much to the presumptive chagrin of Danny Ainge. James forced up a buzzer-beating midrange turnaround jumper attempt with Lillard switched onto him at the end of regulation. In the third quarter, Los Angeles finally got its act together from beyond the arc (somewhat). Though the Lakers passed well and remained aggressive defensively, the team's 1-of-16 mark from three-point land hurt it tremendously through the game's first two quarters. coughed up a seven-point advantage in the game's closing two minutes to drop a very winnable game to the visiting Trail Blazers, falling 106-104 after a weak fadeaway attempt to tie by LeBron James missed at the buzzer.

LeBron James misses a three-pointer at the buzzer as the Lakers give up an eight-point lead and lose 106-104 to Damian Lillard and Portland.

It’s the Lakers third-straight loss to begin the season. But with the game on the line, the Lakers failed to get a stop, Grant driving past James to score around Anthony Davis in the paint. James was unable to force overtime, missing a jumper at the buzzer.

'Not who I am': LeBron 'set up' after horror Westbrook moment as Lakers go from bad to worse.

The Blazers opted to repeatedly guard Westbrook down the stretch with the 7-foot Jusuf Nurkic in a surprise tactic. I don’t like to lose, I hate to lose... According to StatMuse, the Lakers are 30th in offensive rating, 30th in field goal percentage, and 30th in three-point percentage. that’s not who I am.” ‘James added: “You guys can write about Russ, and all the things you guys want to talk about Russ. especially the way we had this game.

After falling to an 0-3 2022-23 regular season record today thanks to a stunning 106-104 last-second loss to the Portland Trail Blazers today, ...

Team vice president of basketball operations Rob Pelinka has come under fire in recent days for his questionable roster construction, as critics have (rightfully) pointed out that All-Star forward LeBron James thrives offensively when surrounded by shooters, which frees up the paint for James to drive to the rack for easier buckets. Spears of ESPN](https://twitter.com/MarcJSpears/status/1584329378116251648) reports that Lakers point guard Russell Westbrook, who has had a miserable two games following a decent regular season debut, has actually tied the single-lowest field goal percentage (with at least 25 field goal looks) across any two-game run by a Laker during the last 50 years. Spears writes that Westbrook's 4-for-26 field goal run between the Lakers' 103-97 Thursday loss to the Los Angeles Clippers and today's 106-104 defeat to the Portland Trail Blazers number ties him with the other worst-ever Lakers shooting run: a prior two-game shooting nadir from Westbrook himself, this past January.

Portland trailed 102-95 with 1:56 to play, but ended the game on an 11-2 run and won it when LeBron James missed a 17-footer at the buzzer. Lillard carried ...

James has scored at least 10 points in 1,099 consecutive games since January 2007, and he remains on track to surpass Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the top scorer in league history this winter. ''We were getting some of the same shots (down the stretch) we were getting (earlier),'' James said. Lonnie Walker scored 15 points and Westbrook had 10 for Los Angeles. Grant, who finished with 16 points, drove and scored the tiebreaking bucket. Patrick Beverley, James and Russell Westbrook all missed shots for LA down the stretch. Lillard carried the Blazers for long stretches, scoring 12 points in the final 5:06 before Grant finished it.

The Lakers shot 18.2% from outside on Sunday as they watched a lead dwindle late against the Blazers to fall to 0-3.

"If you're around a group of guys that are excited after a loss, then that's the worst business that you can be in. "There's no way we're supposed to lose this game," Davis said. "That's the big difference." "For one person to be in their feelings about when and where and how they should be in the game, I don't have any time for that." And with his ability to explode and get to the basket still being at a high level, I wish he would've did that. I don't care what happens throughout the course of my season or throughout the course of my career, I hate to lose. That's not who I am." "I'm not out there just running around, that's for sure." One of those misses came from Westbrook with 27.3 seconds remaining in the game and 18 seconds left on the shot clock. "That's the one shot that teams want you to take and want to give up -- long 2s, contested 2s, what have you. "I just wish we would've attacked the rim directly," Ham said. "We don't have time for feelings or people being in their feelings.