Los Angeles Lakers @ Houston Rockets

11-24, 5-12 Away

142

11-24, 5-12 Away

Final/2OT

	1	2	3	4	OT	T
Lakers LAL	37	35	29	21	20	142
Rockets HOU	44	21	25	32	26	148

Houston RocketsRocketsHOU

26-9, 14-5 Home

148

26-9, 14-5 Home

Los Angeles Lakers

starters
Julius RandleJ. Randle#30
Kyle KuzmaK. Kuzma#0
Brandon IngramB. Ingram#14
Tyler EnnisT. Ennis#10
Josh HartJ. Hart#5
bench
Corey BrewerC. Brewer#3
Larry Nance Jr.L. Nance Jr.#7
Andrew BogutA. Bogut#66
Jordan ClarksonJ. Clarkson#6
Alex CarusoA. Caruso#4
Ivica ZubacI. Zubac#40
Vander BlueV. Blue#17
Kentavious Caldwell-PopeK. Caldwell-Pope#1
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
33	29	13-19	0-0	3-6	15	6	4	0	1	4	11	6	+8
43	23	7-20	5-10	4-4	5	3	1	0	2	1	4	4	-7
45	12	3-6	0-0	6-6	6	4	4	1	0	1	5	1	-6
45	20	8-18	0-3	4-5	4	11	3	2	0	1	3	6	-3
37	26	9-13	4-7	4-8	6	1	0	1	0	1	5	6	+6
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
31	9	4-8	1-3	0-0	6	4	1	0	1	1	5	4	-10
18	7	2-6	0-0	3-5	5	1	0	0	0	2	3	1	-10
8	6	3-3	0-0	0-0	5	0	0	0	0	3	2	1	+1
21	6	2-7	0-2	2-2	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	-11
9	4	2-5	0-0	0-1	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	3	+2
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-PERSONAL
	142	53-105	10-25	26-37	54	4	2	14	32	15	39	0
		70%	40%	40%

Houston Rockets

starters
Ryan AndersonR. Anderson#33
Trevor ArizaT. Ariza#1
Clint CapelaC. Capela#15
Chris PaulC. Paul#3
James HardenJ. Harden#13
bench
P.J. TuckerP.J. Tucker#4
Tarik BlackT. Black#28
Nene N. Hilario#42
Gerald GreenG. Green#14
Eric GordonE. Gordon#10
Zhou QiZ. Qi#9
Bobby BrownB. Brown#6
Briante WeberB. Weber#0
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
21	7	2-6	2-6	1-2	4	0	1	1	0	2	2	3	-18
45	26	9-15	6-10	2-2	4	3	0	2	0	1	3	2	+3
32	7	3-8	0-0	1-2	7	2	2	0	3	5	2	6	-9
42	28	8-20	3-10	9-9	5	10	2	0	0	0	5	5	+4
41	40	10-20	3-8	17-21	2	11	1	2	2	0	2	2	+4
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
22	2	1-4	0-3	0-0	6	1	0	0	1	3	3	4	+6
16	8	4-8	0-0	0-0	9	0	0	0	2	4	5	3	+13
6	6	3-3	0-0	0-1	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	+7
22	10	4-7	2-4	0-0	3	0	1	2	0	0	3	5	+6
43	14	5-15	2-11	2-2	1	1	4	0	1	0	1	2	+14
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	148	49-106	18-52	32-39	43	9	1	11	33	15	28	0
		82%	35%	35%

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Matchups

LAL

HOU leads season

2-1

HOU

Game 1@ LAL

Final

118

122

Game 2@ HOU

Final

116

142

Game 3@ HOU

Final/2OT

148

Game 4@ LAL

Final

105

Game Information

Houston, TX

Referee:John Goble

Referee:Leon Wood

Referee:Tyler Ford

Western Conference

Pacific	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
LA Lakers	53	29	.646	-	W3
Phoenix	45	37	.549	8	W1
LA Clippers	42	40	.512	11	W1
Golden State	37	45	.451	16	L3
Sacramento	22	60	.268	31	L1

Southwest	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
San Antonio	62	20	.756	-	L1
Houston	52	30	.634	10	W1
New Orleans	26	56	.317	36	L2
Dallas	26	56	.317	36	W1
Memphis	25	57	.305	37	L8

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