Fil-Am Jordan Clarkson scores 19 as Lakers down 76ers

Los Angeles took a 25-10 lead after the first quarter and then a 43-22 lead into the half. “And, God-willing, he’s going to want to play every game and he’s going to want to play a lot of minutes in every game, because that’s just the way he is”.

Kobe Bryant is questionable with a sore shoulder, while rookie D’Angelo Russell is fighting through a sore throat. Kobe Bryant sat out the game with a shoulder injury and while he said that he is feeling better, he remains in doubt for tonight’s game against the Suns. Nance came off the bench against the Suns the first time he faced them, playing 23 scoreless minutes with three rebounds.

“Guys were tentative, and we basically laid an egg early”, Suns coach Jeff Hornacek said. He won three championships with the Lakers. “Now, they’re playing with confidence”.

Last month, The Post’s Fancy Stats guru Neil Greenberg delivered some sobering news to the floundering Los Angeles Lakers: Namely, that they’ll continue to be bad until they drastically cut Kobe Bryant’s minutes.

With their eighth win of the season, have the Lakers reignited their hopes of making the playoffs? Randle didn’t stick around to face the media after the game either, apparently preferring not to talk about his 0-for-4 shooting night or the complaints he directed toward teammate Marcelo Huertas, who he felt didn’t get him the ball often enough in the fourth quarter.

“We’re so much in a better spot today than we were a year ago”, Kupchak said. Stephen Curry scored 30 points after being listed as questionable against Charlotte and forward Harrison Barnes returned after missing 16 games. It wasn’t a case of the Lakers defense overwhelming the Suns. They also held Phoenix to a pathetic 19.6 shooting performance before intermission. “There was a time, believe it or not, when the East was better than the West”. “We couldn’t throw it in from anywhere”. The team overall shot 45 percent from the field including 36 percent from three which are both above their normal averages. They also limited Phoenix to the lowest scoring output by an opponent this season.

Philadelphia 76ers’ Jerami Grant, left, fouls Los Angeles Lakers’ Jordan Clarkson, right, during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Friday, Jan. 1, 2016, in Los Angeles. “Larry Sr., in all the years I played against him, we never saw him get rattled”. Morris has clashed with Hornacek and Suns’ management since the club traded his twin brother Marcus to the Detroit Pistons last summer….

According to the Boston Globe’s Adam Himmelsbach, Thomas reached out to someone close to Bryant to request a meeting with the legend Wednesday night when the Boston Celtics hosted the Los Angeles Lakers.