Los Angeles Lakers onward LeBron James, right, drives around Orlando Magic onward Franz Wagner (22) throughout the initial fifty percent of an NBA basketball video game, Monday, March 24, 2025, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
For the 2nd time in 2 video games, the Los Angeles Lakers played Monday with celebrities Luka Dončić and LeBron James adhering to a seven-game lack by James.
For the 2nd time in those 2 video games, the Lakers shed.
The Orlando Magic opened up a 100-83 fourth-quarter lead over the Lakers on Monday, after that hung on for a 118-106 win. The success broke a six-game losing touch in your home for the Magic, that had not formerly won at the Kia Facility because Feb. 23.
Dončić and James each racked up 24-plus factors. Yet it had not been sufficient to quit a depression that’s currently seen the Lakers shed 6 of their last 9 video games. The loss goes down the Lakers to 43-28, which at the verdict of Monday’s video game dropped them right into a fourth-place incorporate the West with the Memphis Grizzlies, a half-game behind the third-place Denver Nuggets.
The race for the No. 2 seed in the West continues to be limited with the Nuggets, Lakers and Grizzlies all within 2.5 video games of the second-place Houston Firecrackers. The Oklahoma City Rumbling are in control of the No. 1 seed with a 13.5-game lead over Houston.
Monday’s loss to Orlando adheres to a 146-115 loss to the currently 31-40 Chicago Bulls in James’ initial video game back from a groin injury.
