Houston Rockets @ Los Angeles Lakers

1-5, 0-3 Away

Final

	1	2	3	4	T
Rockets HOU	15	20	19	31	85
Lakers LAL	27	27	21	20	95

Los Angeles LakersLakersLAL

4-3, 3-2 Home

Houston Rockets

starters
Christian WoodC. Wood#35
Jae'Sean TateJ. Tate#8
Daniel TheisD. Theis#27
Kevin Porter Jr.K. Porter Jr.#3
Jalen GreenJ. Green#0
bench
Usman GarubaU. Garuba#16
KJ MartinMartin Jr.#6
David NwabaD. Nwaba#2
Alperen SengunA. Sengun#28
Josh ChristopherJ. Christopher#9
D.J. AugustinD.J. Augustin#14
Eric GordonE. Gordon#10
Armoni BrooksA. Brooks#7
team

MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF	+/-
35	16	1	12	13	2	0	0	3	7-15	46.7	1-6	16.7	1-7	14.3	2	-15
18	6	1	5	6	1	0	2	3	3-7	42.9	0-2	0.0	0-0	0.0	2	-11
21	3	1	3	4	0	0	0	0	1-5	20.0	0-2	0.0	1-2	50.0	2	-12
36	13	4	5	9	4	2	0	6	6-13	46.2	1-5	20.0	0-1	0.0	3	-5
32	7	0	5	5	5	1	0	4	2-8	25.0	0-4	0.0	3-6	50.0	2	-7
MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF	+/-
1	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0	+4
16	12	0	4	4	1	1	0	1	6-8	75.0	0-1	0.0	0-0	0.0	2	+8
16	0	0	4	4	0	0	0	1	0-2	0.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	1	-9
20	11	2	5	7	2	3	0	4	3-7	42.9	0-1	0.0	5-6	83.3	3	-3
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0	+4
11	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0-1	0.0	0-1	0.0	0-0	0.0	0	-9
30	17	0	2	2	2	1	1	3	4-10	40.0	4-6	66.7	5-7	71.4	1	+1
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	0	+4
	85	10	45	55	18	8	3	25	32-76	42.1	6-28	21.4	15-29	51.7	18

Los Angeles Lakers

starters
LeBron JamesL. James#6
Anthony DavisA. Davis#3
Kent BazemoreK. Bazemore#9
Avery BradleyA. Bradley#20
Russell WestbrookR. Westbrook#0
bench
Carmelo AnthonyC. Anthony#7
DeAndre JordanD. Jordan#10
Malik MonkM. Monk#11
Austin ReavesA. Reaves#15
Dwight HowardD. Howard#39
Rajon RondoR. Rondo#4
Wayne EllingtonW. Ellington#2
team

MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF	+/-
35	15	1	6	7	8	4	1	2	6-19	31.6	0-6	0.0	3-4	75.0	0	+7
33	16	6	7	13	2	1	1	3	7-17	41.2	0-1	0.0	2-2	100.0	3	+6
27	9	0	2	2	1	3	0	1	3-7	42.9	2-3	66.7	1-2	50.0	3	+4
30	2	0	3	3	0	3	1	1	1-5	20.0	0-4	0.0	0-0	0.0	2	-5
35	20	1	7	8	9	1	0	2	9-22	40.9	2-4	50.0	0-1	0.0	4	+25
MIN	PTS	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	FG	FG%	3PT	3PT%	FT	FT%	PF	+/-
25	23	0	3	3	0	2	4	0	8-14	57.1	5-8	62.5	2-4	50.0	2	+7
17	8	1	2	3	2	1	2	0	4-4	100.0	0-0	0.0	0-0	0.0	4	+3
19	0	1	1	2	0	0	0	0	0-6	0.0	0-4	0.0	0-0	0.0	0	-2
20	2	0	2	2	0	0	0	3	1-2	50.0	0-1	0.0	0-0	0.0	2	+5
DNP-STIFF NECK
DNP-COACH'S DECISION
DNP-STRAINED LEFT HAMSTRING
	95	10	33	43	22	15	9	12	39-96	40.6	9-31	29.0	8-13	61.5	20

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

Regular Season Series

LAL lead 1-0

Rockets
85
Lakers
95

Game 1

10/31

Rockets
117
Lakers
119

Game 2

11/2

Lakers
132
Rockets
123

Game 3

12/28

Lakers
130
Rockets
139

Game 4

3/9

crypto.com Arena

10:30 PM, October 31, 2021

Los Angeles, CA

Attendance: 16,448

Referees:
Courtney Kirkland
Eric Dalen
Nate Green

Team	W	L	PCT	GB	STRK
San Antonio	8	2	.800	-	W3
Houston	6	3	.667	1.5	W1
Memphis	4	7	.364	4.5	L1
Dallas	3	8	.273	5.5	L1
New Orleans	2	8	.200	6	L2

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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