LeBron, Monk Lead Lakers’ Late Rally Past Kings, 122-114

LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James scored 14 of his 31 points successful the 4th quarter, Malik Monk added 11 of his 24 successful the last 7 minutes, and the Los Angeles Lakers held disconnected the Sacramento Kings 122-114 connected Tuesday nighttime for their 4th triumph successful 5 games.

Talen Horton-Tucker scored 19 points for the Lakers, who rallied from a precocious seven-point shortage with 1 large handbasket aft different from Monk and James. Monk deed six 3-pointers successful yet different awesome violative game, and Russell Westbrook added 19 points and drew a cardinal precocious complaint arsenic the Lakers climbed backmost supra .500.

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Westbrook played 34 minutes successful his archetypal turnover-free crippled since March 14, 2016.

De’Aaron Fox scored 30 points and Buddy Hield added 26 with 7 3-pointers for the Kings, who scored 11 consecutive points aboriginal successful the 4th fourth earlier wilting down the stretch. Harrison Barnes had 14 points for Sacramento, which had won 3 consecutive implicit the Lakers successful Los Angeles.

Tyrese Haliburton’s jumper enactment the Kings up with 3 minutes to play, but Monk’s 3-pointer and James’ layup enactment the Lakers backmost up 114-110. Westbrook and James added layups successful the waning minutes arsenic LA held on.

Dwight Howard had a season-high 14 points and 14 rebounds for the Lakers, who bushed a Pacific Division hostile astatine location for the archetypal clip successful six tries this season.

Looking visibly bushed aboriginal on, James cooled disconnected aft an awesome multi-game shooting agelong that began earlier the holidays and included 7 consecutive 30-point games earlier helium lone produced 26 Sunday against Minnesota.

James finished 12 for 26, warming up successful plentifulness of clip to transportation the Kings to different triumph portion they proceed to hunt for continuity and teamwork adjacent the midway constituent of a tumultuous regular season.

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TIP-INS

Kings: USC merchandise Chimezie Metu went into the NBA’s wellness and information protocols earlier successful the day, joining Richaun Holmes. Metu was 1 of the fewer Kings who didn’t participate the protocols erstwhile Sacramento was astatine its astir short-handed past month, and helium deed the last-second 3-pointer to bushed Dallas past week. … G Terence Davis missed his 4th consecutive crippled with an ankle injury. … Holmes missed his 2nd consecutive game.

Lakers: Kendrick Nunn has yet to marque his debut for Los Angeles owed to a preseason bony bruise, but manager Frank Vogel said the mid-level objection signing is moving retired with Lakers coaches and getting person to a return. Although Nunn volition miss astatine slightest fractional of the regular play unless helium returns this week, Vogel said the third-year NBA pro volition play “a batch of minutes” erstwhile he’s healthy.

A.B. DECISION

Avery Bradley scored 7 points successful his last crippled for the Lakers earlier they indispensable determine whether to let the guard’s declaration to go guaranteed for the remainder of the season. The Lakers claimed Bradley disconnected waivers portion they were short-handed successful October, and helium amazingly has been a rotation regular with 26 starts.

UP NEXT

Kings: Host Atlanta connected Wednesday.

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Lakers: Host Atlanta connected Friday.