Houston Rockets @ Los Angeles Lakers

10-34, 4-20 Away

132

10-34, 4-20 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Rockets HOU	35	26	37	34	132
Lakers LAL	37	36	29	38	140

Los Angeles LakersLakersLAL

20-24, 11-10 Home

140

20-24, 11-10 Home

Houston Rockets

starters
KJ MartinMartin Jr.#6
Jabari Smith Jr.J. Smith Jr.#1
Alperen SengunA. Sengun#28
Eric GordonE. Gordon#10
Jalen GreenJ. Green#4
bench
Usman GarubaU. Garuba#16
Jae'Sean TateJ. Tate#8
Tari EasonT. Eason#17
Josh ChristopherJ. Christopher#9
Garrison MathewsG. Mathews#25
Bruno FernandoB. Fernando#20
Boban MarjanovicB. Marjanovic#51
Daishen NixD. Nix#15
TyTy Washington Jr.T. Washington Jr.#0
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
30	17	7-15	2-5	1-2	7	0	2	0	2	2	5	4	-13
28	14	5-11	1-4	3-4	4	4	1	0	0	1	3	5	-15
37	33	14-17	2-2	3-5	15	6	2	0	4	4	11	5	-6
32	19	5-11	0-2	9-11	2	8	0	0	0	0	2	1	-9
39	23	7-20	3-10	6-8	5	3	1	0	0	1	4	3	-16
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
11	4	2-3	0-0	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	-2
18	7	3-8	0-1	1-1	1	4	0	0	0	1	0	3	+5
20	9	4-6	1-1	0-0	7	0	1	0	1	5	2	2	+7
10	0	0-4	0-2	0-0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	+4
14	6	2-5	2-3	0-0	4	1	1	0	0	1	3	1	+5
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	132	49-100	11-30	23-31	48	28	8	0	7	17	31	25
		49%	37%	74%

Los Angeles Lakers

starters
LeBron JamesL. James#6
Troy Brown Jr.T. Brown Jr.#7
Thomas BryantT. Bryant#31
Patrick BeverleyP. Beverley#21
Dennis SchroderD. Schroder#17
bench
Wenyen GabrielW. Gabriel#35
Juan Toscano-AndersonJ. Toscano-Anderson#95
Russell WestbrookR. Westbrook#0
Kendrick NunnK. Nunn#12
Max ChristieM. Christie#10
Cole SwiderC. Swider#20
Damian JonesD. Jones#30
Scotty Pippen Jr.S. Pippen Jr.#14
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
36	48	16-26	5-10	11-12	8	9	0	0	0	1	7	1	+19
30	6	2-4	2-4	0-0	3	1	1	1	1	0	3	0	-3
18	6	1-6	0-1	4-4	6	0	0	0	2	0	6	3	-10
22	11	3-6	3-6	2-2	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	2	+1
33	9	3-9	0-1	3-5	2	3	0	0	0	0	2	3	+10
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF	+/-
24	14	5-8	0-1	4-4	9	1	0	1	2	5	4	6	+15
16	7	3-4	1-2	0-0	2	3	1	1	0	1	1	2	-6
32	24	9-16	0-3	6-8	5	4	0	1	0	2	3	2	+17
24	15	7-12	1-5	0-0	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	-6
5	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	+3
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	140	49-91	12-33	30-35	39	23	2	4	5	9	30	19
		54%	36%	86%

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

Matchups

HOU

LAL lead season

1-0

LAL

132

Game 1@ LAL

Final

140

114

Game 2@ HOU

Final

110

109

Game 3@ HOU

Final

134

Game Information

Los Angeles, CA

Referee:Mark Lindsay

Referee:Scott Wall

Referee:Sean Corbin

Western Conference

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

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

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