Los Angeles Lakers @ Phoenix Suns

West 1st Round - Game 5 • PHX leads series 3-2

42-30, 21-15 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Lakers LAL	26	10	27	22	85
Suns PHX	34	32	26	23	115

Phoenix SunsSunsPHX

51-21, 27-9 Home

115

51-21, 27-9 Home

Los Angeles Lakers

starters
Markieff MorrisM. Morris#88
LeBron JamesL. James#23
Andre DrummondA. Drummond#2
Kentavious Caldwell-PopeK. Caldwell-Pope#1
Dennis SchroderD. Schroder#17
bench
Alfonzo McKinnieA. McKinnie#28
Kyle KuzmaK. Kuzma#0
Jared DudleyJ. Dudley#10
Talen Horton-TuckerT. Horton-Tucker#5
Marc GasolM. Gasol#14
Montrezl HarrellM. Harrell#15
Wesley MatthewsW. Matthews#9
Ben McLemoreB. McLemore#7
Alex CarusoA. Caruso#4
Anthony DavisA. Davis#3
team

MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF	+/-
10	4	1	0	1	1	0	1	1	1-2	50.0	1-1	100.0	1-2	50.0	1	-13
32	24	1	4	5	7	0	0	3	9-19	47.4	6-10	60.0	0-0	0.0	1	-24
22	7	4	9	13	0	0	0	4	2-5	40.0	0-0	0.0	3-3	100.0	3	-8
15	0	0	1	1	2	1	0	1	0-1	0.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	1	-19
26	0	0	4	4	1	0	0	0	0-9	0.0	0-4	0.0	0-0	0.0	2	-17
MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF	+/-
11	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0-2	0.0	0-1	0.0	0-0	0.0	1	0
23	15	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	6-13	46.2	1-5	20.0	2-5	40.0	2	-6
4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0	-2
16	11	1	10	11	1	0	0	2	4-9	44.4	1-2	50.0	2-3	66.7	2	-8
10	5	0	3	3	1	0	0	1	1-1	100.0	1-1	100.0	2-2	100.0	5	-14
12	9	1	2	3	0	0	0	0	3-5	60.0	0-0	0.0	3-4	75.0	0	-1
22	5	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1-5	20.0	1-5	20.0	2-2	100.0	3	-10
16	0	1	5	6	1	1	0	1	0-5	0.0	0-2	0.0	0-0	0.0	2	-8
21	5	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	2-8	25.0	1-4	25.0	0-0	0.0	2	-20
DNP-STRAINED LEFT GROIN
	85	10	41	51	14	3	1	16	29-84	34.5	12-35	34.3	15-21	71.4	25

Phoenix Suns

starters
Jae CrowderJ. Crowder#99
Deandre AytonD. Ayton#22
Chris PaulC. Paul#3
Devin BookerD. Booker#1
Mikal BridgesM. Bridges#25
bench
Frank KaminskyF. Kaminsky#8
Dario SaricD. Saric#20
Cameron JohnsonC. Johnson#23
Jalen SmithJ. Smith#10
Torrey CraigT. Craig#12
Cameron PayneC. Payne#15
Langston GallowayL. Galloway#2
E'Twaun MooreE. Moore#55
Jevon CarterJ. Carter#4
Ty-Shon AlexanderT. Alexander#0
team

MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF	+/-
29	9	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	3-9	33.3	3-9	33.3	0-0	0.0	2	+23
27	8	2	5	7	2	0	0	0	2-3	66.7	0-0	0.0	4-6	66.7	2	+25
23	9	0	4	4	6	1	0	2	3-9	33.3	1-3	33.3	2-2	100.0	0	+34
33	30	0	7	7	5	1	0	1	13-23	56.5	2-6	33.3	2-2	100.0	3	+22
30	13	1	5	6	3	3	2	0	5-10	50.0	3-7	42.9	0-0	0.0	3	+23
MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF	+/-
10	3	0	3	3	4	0	0	0	1-3	33.3	0-0	0.0	1-1	100.0	2	+1
7	5	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	2-3	66.7	1-2	50.0	0-0	0.0	1	0
13	11	0	3	3	0	1	0	1	2-4	50.0	1-2	50.0	6-7	85.7	0	+11
4	3	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	1-1	100.0	1-1	100.0	0-0	0.0	0	+2
18	2	0	7	7	2	0	2	0	1-7	14.3	0-4	0.0	0-0	0.0	4	+9
19	16	0	4	4	1	1	0	0	7-11	63.6	2-4	50.0	0-0	0.0	3	+2
9	2	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	1-5	20.0	0-2	0.0	0-1	0.0	0	+1
9	4	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	2-3	66.7	0-1	0.0	0-0	0.0	2	+1
8	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0-3	0.0	0-1	0.0	0-2	0.0	0	-4
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
	115	3	44	47	29	7	4	4	43-94	45.7	14-42	33.3	15-21	71.4	22

+/- denotes team's net points while the player is on the court

Lakers
90
Suns
99

Game 1

5/23

Lakers
109
Suns
102

Game 2

5/25

Suns
95
Lakers
109

Game 3

5/27

Suns
100
Lakers
92

Game 4

5/30

Lakers
85
Suns
115

Game 5

6/1

Suns
113
Lakers
100

Game 6

6/3

Mortgage Matchup Center

10:00 PM, June 1, 2021Coverage: TNT

Phoenix, AZ

Attendance: 16,163

Referees:
James Capers
Curtis Blair
Ken Mauer
Karl Lane

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
LA Lakers	8	3	.727	-	W1
Golden State	6	5	.545	2	W1
Phoenix	6	5	.545	2	W3
Sacramento	3	7	.300	4.5	L2
LA Clippers	3	7	.300	4.5	L5

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