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OKLAHOMA CITY -- With the Lakers' once 26-point lead cut to 10 in the waning minutes Saturday, LeBron James scored 11 straight points for L.A. The spurt boosted his total to a season-best 40 points and assured the Lakers one of their best wins of the season, 129-120 against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Coming into the night on a four-game losing streak and tweaking the starting lineup before tipoff -- looking like a shell of the team that went 7-0 en route to the in-season tournament championship in the past couple of weeks -- the Lakers made good on the "must win" directive Anthony Davis labeled the game earlier in the week.