Instant Replay: Warriors end struggles at Staples, win streak hits 10

If the playoffs were to happen right now, The Lakers would be the 8th seed going in with an 8-8 record. He did not finish the last game against the Lakers on Wednesday after sustaining a left corneal abrasion. Walton said he didn’t review tape of Wednesday’s loss: “I told our film guy I would throw him out of our room if he put that game on my laptop”.

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Four players scored in double figures, led by forward Kevin Durant, who flipped in 29 points. Jose Calderon started in his place against the Thunder and performed admirably with 12 points, six rebounds, four assists and four 3-pointers.

“He was playing through it for a while and playing well”, Walton said. “They had 47 assists and that’s obviously what you strive to be”.

They weren’t flawless Wednesday night, but they were close enough to glimpse perfection and perhaps even reach out and touch it.

Lakers: Clarkson moved back into LA’s starting lineup with Young sidelined.

The afternoon started off pleasantly as Lakers coach Luke Walton caught up with Warriors coach Steve Kerr about their personal lives and their basketball teams. The bench for the Lakers helped them to regain some momentum. Walton looked up around the arena and smiled, with the camera fixed on him and the cheers morphed into a hearty, “LUUUUUUUKE”.

The Golden State Warriors extended the league’s longest winning streak to 10 games with a 109-85 win over the injury-plagued Los Angeles Lakers on Friday at Staples Center.

It came against a tired Lakers team that was on the back-end of a back-to-back and, yes, LA was playing without D’Angelo Russell and Julius Randle. “He’s not learning and building the trust you get when you try to get with players that are together for a long time”. He said if the games weren’t on consecutive nights, it’s likely he would not have missed one.

Russell sat out the tail end of last Thursday’s practice while wearing an ice bag around his left knee. Russell will begin rehabbing at some point this week, centering on low-impact cardio and pool work along with knee stabilization and strengthening exercises and therapy. After skipping the fourth quarter and putting ice on his leg, he hopes to play Saturday back home in Oakland.

Short-handed and worn, the Lakers were outmatched from wire to wire. Averaging 16 points per game and 4.8 assists, the Lakers will certain need Russell when they take on Walton’s former team the Warriors. Their big three – Love, LeBron James and Kyrie Irving – were in fantastic rhythm to score 40, 31 and 20 points respectively.