The Los Angeles one-two punch of Anthony Davis and LeBron James held off a furious fourth quarter Golden State Warriors rally Tuesday night, lifting the Lakers to a 117-112 victory in Game 1 of the NBA Western Conference semifinals.
The teams will square off again at Chase for Game 2 on Thursday night as Golden State let their homecourt advantage in the best of seven series slip away.
With the Lakers leading 112-98 after a basket from James with 5:58 left, the Warriors went on a furious 14-0 run to tie the game at 112-112 on a Curry 3 with 1:37 left in the contest. The numbers told the story of the hotly contested first half. Los Angeles went 16-of-17 from the free throw line and took a 65-64 halftime lead on a James jumper with one second left on the clock. Meanwhile, Golden State took advantage of the Lakers sagging defense to bomb away from the 3-point line, hitting on 13-of-30 from deep, but only got to the free throw line three times.
Schroder gave the Lakers their first lead of the game with 11:08 remaining in the second quarter. He scored seven points off the bench as the Los Angeles lead 39-38 with 7:50 left in the second. From there, the teams settled down with Golden State scoring with its fast pace transition offense while Los Angeles pounded the ball inside to Davis, who scored 14 points in the quarter. It was James' playmaking that led to Davis going 7-of-8 from the field.
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