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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Sport
Dan Woike

Old mistakes hurt Lakers down the stretch in tight loss to Kings

The swings were wild, 14 points in the Lakers’ favor after a red hot first quarter and 14 points back towards the Kings in the second half.

But with a little over four minutes left, the score was totally even – the Kings and the Lakers about to enter crunch time with the game totally undecided.

The Kings have been one of the NBA’s better teams in this situation — Wednesday being their 24th game within five in the final four minutes. They’d won 13 of them with De’Aaron Fox quietly becoming one of the league’s top clutch players.

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