Anthony Davis, Austin Reaves Driver Lakers to 117-96 Victory Over Celtics

Los Angeles – – Anthony Davis scored 24 points, Austin Reaves added 23 and Los Angeles Lakers triumphed to a 117-96 win over Boston Celtics on Thursday night.

LeBron James had 20 points and 14 rebounds after being selected for All-Star games for 21st season in a row earlier in the day.

James also passed Hakeem Olajuwon into a seventh place in defensive rebounds in NBA history early in the third quarter. James, who has 9,720, needed six to go into the game to pass the Hall of Fame Center.

Kristaps Porzingis led Boston with 22 points and Jaylen Brown added 17.

Los Angeles, who has won two just after a stretch of four of six, was up with 28 in the fourth quarter.

Takeaways
Celtics: Jayson Tatum, also voted for All-Star Game, ended with 16 points. Boston played three matches in four days and came after an overtime victory of 117-113 against Clippers on Wednesday.

Lakers: Gabe Vincent ended with 12 points this season with four 3-points. Los Angeles hit 11 3-points in the first half, which brought the season high in the first two quarters. It was 15 of 35 from beyond the arch of the game.

Key moment
James drove past Luke Kornet and Sam Hauser in the field and ended with a thump with 8.9 seconds left in the first quarter to give Lakers a 34-23 lead and finish a 17-5 race to close the period.

Key State
Bronny James entered his second match in a row and was 0 of 1 from the field in four minutes.

Next
Both teams return to match Saturday. Celtics is in Dallas and Lakers begins a six-match road trip towards the Golden State.

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