The Los Angeles Lakers hosted the Brooklyn Nets on Friday night, looking to build off their comeback win against the Miami Heat.
These two teams made a trade a few weeks ago, swapping D’Angelo Russell for Dorian Finney-Smith. The latter was out of this game for personal reasons while the former was surely looking to go at his former team. Anthony Davis was also a late scratch for the Lakers due to plantar fasciitis.
In the end though, it was the Lakers that came out on top in a close one, beating the Nets 102-101.
Jaxson Hayes started in Davis’ place and got the scoring started on a dunk on a feed from Austin Reaves.