The Washington Wizards ran their winning streak to five with a 127-124 overtime victory against LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers. The string of victories is currently the NBA’s second longest (the Brooklyn Nets have won six in a row).
This was the gritty kind of win the Wizards franchise has long struggled to achieve. No one had a particularly outstanding game for Washington, but Bradley Beal scored, Russell Westbrook did some of everything, and they got timely contributions from Deni Avdija, Rui Hachimura, Raul Neto, Garrison Mathews, Robin Lopez, and Davis Bertans.