LeBron James led the way with 32 points, but familiar defensive and offensive mistakes cost the Lakers in a 116-111 loss to the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday.
three-point play to tie the game, the Kings’ Harrison Barnes easily split a double team by Patrick Beverley and Russell Westbrook to score while being fouled.
It was a perfectly Lakers game — plenty of fight and a disappointing result, the kind of night that’s defined their last week, in which they’ve lost three times by a combined 10 points. Sacramento, playing without its surefire All-Star big man, Domantas Sabonis, cut through the Lakers’ defense to get most of what it wanted, Fox sliding past Dennis Schroder, Beverley and the rest of the Lakers’ backcourt for easy bucket after easy bucket. And if Fox wasn’t scoring, the Lakers’ defense was getting caught up enough in rotations that the ball eventually found an open shooter.
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