Lakers win over the Grizzlies 116 - 110 on LeBron's return

NBA - The 10th seed Los Angeles Lakers host the 2nd seed and the hottest team in the Western Conference, the visiting Memphis Grizzlies for their 3rd meetings of the 2024-2025 NBA Regular Season at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California.

The Lakers loss their 1st meeting with the Grizzlies on November 6, 2024, 114-131 at FedExForum in Memphis, Tennessee. While in their 2nd meeting the Lakers tied their season match on November 13, 2024, 128-123 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California.




Both teams are looking to break the tie in their season match up while the Lakers are getting back their star player LeBron James in this game after missing the last 2 games where the Lakers are 1 win and 1 loss at James absent with the team.

In the game, the 1st quarter is completely controlled by the Lakers with AD and LeBron dominance in the offence the Lakers ended the early quarter with double digit lead 30-20 Lakers up by 10 points.

In the 2nd quarter, Lakers controlled the entire quarter and further their lead up to 20 points plus, the Lakers outscored the Grizzlies 34-26 and end the half up by 18 points 64-46.

In the 3rd quarter, the Grizzlies rallies back in the game outscoring the Lakers 31-22 in the quarter and cut the Lakers lead in single digit 77-86 entering the final quarter.

In the 4th quarter, the Lakers able to up their lead back to double digit not until in the final 5 minutes of the game where the visiting team cut the home team's lead into single digit until the final minutes of the game.

Lakers able to hang on to their lead with a 116-110 win over the Grizzlies ending the Grizz 4 - game winning streak while the Lakers are back in the winning column and remain 10th in the West Standings.

Anthony Davis leads the Lakers in scoring with a monster game of  40 points, 16 rebounds and 2 assists while LeBron James added 18 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists in his return with the Lakers. Jaren Jackson and Ja Morant scored 25 points and 20 points respectively in Grizzlies losing efforts.