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Charlotte snaps three-game losing streak against Lakers

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Charlotte's basketball players defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 100:97 (21:28, 16:20, 32:18, 31:31) on the road, thus ending a streak of three consecutive losses in the American Professional Basketball League (NBA).

This game continued the NBA competition after a five-day break due to the All-Star weekend.

Charlotte's most efficient player was Miles Bridges with 29 points, six rebounds and five steals. Lamelo Ball added 27 points, six assists and five rebounds, Nick Smith Jr. scored 12 points, while Bosnian center Jusuf Nurkić recorded eight rebounds, seven assists, two blocks and a steal in 18 minutes of play. Nurkić came to Charlotte from Phoenix, in a trade that also included Serbian international Vasilije Micić.

LeBron James led the Lakers with 26 points, 11 assists and seven rebounds. Rui Hachimura added 17 points and eight rebounds, Luka Dončić had 14 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists, while Dorian Finney-Smith scored 12 points. Austin Reeves was ejected from the game in the third quarter after receiving two quick technical fouls for violently criticizing the referee.

The Lakers had their last drive of the game with six seconds left. James missed his first three-pointer to tie the game after a Dončić layup, Gabe Vincent grabbed the offensive rebound, and James, after his pass, missed another three-pointer to tie the game with one second left.

This was the first game between the two teams since the Lakers called off a trade that would have sent Charlotte center Mark Williams and sent Dalton Necht and Cam Reddish to the North Carolina club. Williams had 10 points and nine rebounds for Charlotte, while Necht had three points and five rebounds for the Lakers. Reddish did not play for the Los Angeles team.

Charlotte achieved its second triumph in the last 11 games and occupies the penultimate, 14th place in the Eastern Conference standings with a score of 14/39, while the Lakers recorded their second consecutive defeat after six wins in a row and are now fifth in the West with 32 wins and 21 losses.

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