After a decade of preventing their arch rivals from winning the season series, the Lakers were finally unable to hold off the Boston Celtics.
The purple and gold had either won or split each series with Boston since 2007, but this time the Celtics followed up on their February win by rolling past the Lakers at Staples Center, 115-95.
The loss reached its low point in the third quarter, as head coach Luke Walton pulled his starters after Boston’s Isaiah Thomas served up an off-the-backboard alley-oop to Jaylen Brown.
“(The starters) stopped passing and getting back on defense,” Walton said.