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| Team | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | OT | Final/OT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Wizards | 23 | 26 | 31 | 35 | 12 | 127 |
 Lakers | 33 | 30 | 23 | 29 | 9 | 124 |
WASTeam statsLAL| Team | FG | 3PT | FT | REB | AST | TO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WAS | 47-9649.0% | 9-2536.0% | 24-3372.7% | 49 | 25 | 16 |
| LAL | 49-10447.1% | 15-4434.1% | 11-1764.7% | 45 | 29 | 20 |
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Washington Wizards127| 44 | 32 | 13-25 | 0-1 | 6-12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +3.8 | ||||||
| 44 | 33 | 12-24 | 2-5 | 7-9 | 0 | 0 | +7 | +3.4 | ||||||
| 37 | 15 | 6-8 | 1-2 | 0 | 2-3 | 0 | 0 | +2 | −1.0 | |||||
| 17 | 8 | 2-4 | 2-4 | 0 | 0 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +9 | −0.2 | |||
| 15 | 6 | 2-5 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 0 | −5 | −0.4 | |||||||
| Bench | ||||||||||||||
| 30 | 13 | 5-8 | 0-0 | 0 | 3-3 | +16 | −2.3 | |||||||
| 28 | 8 | 2-9 | 2-7 | 2-2 | 0 | 0 | −9 | −6.1 | ||||||
| 23 | 8 | 3-5 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | +2.1 | ||||||
| 22 | 4 | 2-8 | 0-2 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | +5 | −0.5 | |||||
| 4 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | −6 | −3.0 | ||||
| Team | 127 | 47-9649.0% | 9-2536.0% | 49 | 25 | 16 | 25 | 24-3372.7% | 5 | 9 | 4 | |||
Bench 33 points on 12 for 30 shooting
Did not play: Jerome Robinson, Isaac Bonga, Troy Brown Jr. and Anthony Gill (coach’s decision).
Los Angeles Lakers124| 43 | 31 | 14-29 | 2-10 | 1-3 | 0 | 0 | +3 | −1.7 | ||||||
| 40 | 21 | 8-15 | 4-8 | 1-1 | 0 | −6 | +1.3 | |||||||
| 37 | 14 | 5-16 | 4-11 | 0-0 | 0 | −10 | −5.9 | |||||||
| 27 | 7 | 2-5 | 2-5 | 1-3 | 0 | 0 | +0.3 | |||||||
| 26 | 0 | 0-3 | 0-3 | 0-0 | 0 | −11 | −8.0 | |||||||
| Bench | ||||||||||||||
| 31 | 11 | 4-10 | 1-4 | 2-2 | +2 | −0.2 | ||||||||
| 23 | 26, Season high (his best before, 22) | 10-17 | 0-0 | 6-7 | 0 | −5 | +8.4 | |||||||
| 22 | 7 | 3-5 | 1-2 | 0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | +9 | +0.4 | |||||
| 16 | 7 | 3-4 | 1-1 | 0 | 0 | 0-1 | 0 | +3 | −1.8 | |||||
| Team | 124 | 49-10447.1% | 15-4434.1% | 45 | 29 | 20 | 29 | 11-1764.7% | 12 | 9 | 11 | |||
Bench 51 points on 20 for 36 shooting
Did not play: Kostas Antetokounmpo, Quinn Cook, Jared Dudley, Alfonzo McKinnie and Devontae Cacok (coach’s decision).
Wizards127Lakers124ClickTap a team’s number to see the plays behind it.
PS, Performance Score: points above what an average player adds in the same minutes. The game’s highs are in blue, hot shooting in gold, cold in gray. ClickTap a column’s heading to sort by it.
Russell Westbrook had 32 points (22 in the paint) and 14 rebounds, and the Washington Wizards rallied from 17 points down in the third quarter to beat the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers 127-124 in overtime for their fifth straight win.
The Wizards trailed 63-49 at halftime and 70-53 with 9:25 left in the third quarter. They outscored the Lakers 74-54 the rest of the way.
Bradley Beal’s floater with 42.4 seconds left in overtime made it 125-121. The Lakers had the ball down 3, but Kyle Kuzma missed a fadeaway 3-pointer with 2.6 seconds left that would have tied it.
During clutch time, the Wizards outscored the Lakers 27-25. Beal (No. 2 in clutch points, 2020-21) scored 10 of the Wizards’ 27 on 3 for 5 shooting and 4 for 4 at the line. In the fourth quarter, Westbrook had 5 of his 9 assists, 2 of them on baskets by Deni Avdija that put the Wizards ahead. In that stretch, Raul Neto had 2 steals in 23 seconds, 1 of them during a 10-0 Wizards run, and the Wizards scored 2 points off them.
Beal had 33 points, 6 assists and 3 steals. The Wizards had 2 30-point scorers.
For the Lakers, LeBron James had 31 points (16 in the paint), 9 rebounds and a season-high 13 assists, and Montrezl Harrell added a season-high 26 points and 9 rebounds off the bench. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope scored 21 points. The Lakers had 3 20-point scorers.
The Wizards went 24 for 33 at the line to the Lakers’ 11 for 17. Marc Gasol fouled out.
Washington WizardsLos Angeles LakersPS, Performance Score: points above what an average player adds in the same minutes.
The five plays that moved the chance to win most, in order.
Each play from the side of the team that made it: its chance to win before and after, and the change in percentage points. On the court, each shot is the shooter’s face (gray when he missed), bigger the more it moved the chance. The Wizards’ chance bottomed out at 5.5% (3rd quarter, 9:12 left). Chances from the site’s game model (the per-play numbers the Clutch and Performances tabs use aren’t built for this game).
103 points from the field on 96 shots: 4.5 fewer than the league scores from the same zones.
Point at a shooter to see his shots light up; click for his shots alone.
| Zone | FG | % | League |
|---|---|---|---|
| At the rim | 28-46 | 60.9% | 64% |
| In the paint | 5-12 | 41.7% | 43% |
| Mid-range | 5-13 | 38.5% | 42% |
| Corner 3 | 2-5 | 40.0% | 39% |
| Above-the-break 3 | 7-20 | 35.0% | 36% |
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kentavious Caldwell-Pope | 53 | 11 | 5-10 | −12 |
| Marc Gasol | 10 | 14 | 6-11 | +10 |
| Alex Caruso | 9 | 7 | 2-2 | +3 |
| Wesley Matthews | 6 | 0 | 0-1 | −3 |
| Everyone else | 17 | 2 | 1-4 | −5 |
The tracking credits him with 34 points on 94 possessions. He usually scores about 41 on that many.
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wesley Matthews | 28 | 7 | 3-5 | −1 |
| Alex Caruso | 25 | 5 | 2-4 | −2 |
| Talen Horton-Tucker | 10 | 5 | 2-4 | +2 |
| LeBron James | 8 | 4 | 2-2 | +2 |
| Everyone else | 21 | 14 | 6-13 | +8 |
The tracking credits him with 35 points on 92 possessions. He usually scores about 26 on that many.
| Guarded by | Poss | Pts | FG | vs usual |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LeBron James | 27 | 0 | 0-1 | −6 |
| Kyle Kuzma | 25 | 3 | 1-2 | −3 |
| Markieff Morris | 10 | 2 | 1-1 | 0 |
| Marc Gasol | 5 | 5 | 2-2 | +4 |
| Everyone else | 14 | 7 | 3-3 | +4 |
The tracking credits him with 17 points on 81 possessions. He usually scores about 19 on that many.
What the players each one guarded scored, against what they usually score on as many possessions.
Possessions, and parts of possessions when defenders switched, from the NBA’s matchup tracking. The line under a defender’s name: his share of the scorer’s possessions. Usual: what the scorer averaged a possession against every defender in the regular season, eased toward the league’s rate when he has few possessions.
LAL win probability — AI model powered by play-by-play data
WAS
50/50
LAL
Highest Leverage Moments
Avdija 25' 3PT Jump Shot (8 PTS) (Westbrook 9 AST)
Q4 0:52
42.0%
56→14
James 4' Fadeaway Jumper (27 PTS)
Q4 0:10
39.0%
14→53
Caldwell-Pope 25' 3PT Jump Shot (21 PTS) (James 13 AST)
OT 0:36
37.8%
5→43
Caldwell-Pope 28' 3PT Jump Shot (18 PTS) (Kuzma 2 AST)
Q4 1:08
35.9%
21→56
Beal 5' Driving Floating Jump Shot (33 PTS)
OT 0:42
31.9%
37→6
