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Lakers vs Grizzlies starters: pic.twitter.com/r2qp6WL2w8— Daniel Starkand (@DStarkand) March 29, 2025
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(@BrettSiegelNBA)LeBron James will likely help the Lakers this off season with a pay cut to add talent around Dončić. #LakeShow “LeBron will likely opt out of his $50.6 million player option, but he is not expected to leave Los Angeles, league sources told ClutchPoints. This… pic.twitter.com/szLMjLYYoA— 🎗NBA•Fan🎗 (@Klutch_23) March 28, 2025
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The Lakers had two game-winning shots hit against them before last night's heartbreaker.After one, they spiraled, losing 6 of their next 9 games. After the other one, they rallied, winning 8 of their next 11.On the importance of how they respond this late in the season:…— Jovan Buha (@jovanbuha) March 28, 2025
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The Grizzlies have beaten just one team with a winning record since February 3—and that was the Mavericks on March 7, who were missing eight players 😬(Via @JohnMartin929 ) pic.twitter.com/4Z8mwDIQ7I— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) March 28, 2025
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The Lakers’ most likely first-round matchup in the playoffs is the Grizzlies, who just randomly fired Taylor Jenkins.Imagine being promoted as an interim head coach THIS late in the season and having to game-plan for LeBron and Luka in a playoff series 😭 pic.twitter.com/1kuvngz5ZS— Lakers All Day Everyday (@LADEig) March 28, 2025
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Everything about Memphis is odd to me, how they enabled and handled Ja, this, everything.
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When a team is knocking down 3 after 3, perhaps you might make them go to the hoop?? Come on JJ!
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What an unforgettable pair of games, DJ! The fourth quarter was like a fireworks show of three-pointers—I don’t remember seeing that many 3s rain down like that in the fourth quarter. Way too many 3s. How could the Lakers allow that?
It was truly a rollercoaster of emotions. One night, we were riding high with the thrill of a buzzer-beater victory, celebrating like champions. The very next night, though, our hearts sank as we watched the script flip with a buzzer-beater loss. The drama, the passion, the unpredictability—it’s the kind of basketball that keeps fans hooked. But losing at the buzzer really hurts.
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Final pic.twitter.com/RCqzJ37PH3— Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) March 28, 2025
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LAKERS MUST FLUSH LOSS & MOVE ON…Too many games in too few days. These are the games that could end up costing you the right matchup or home court advantage. They're also the games that teams that haven't played a lot together tend to lose. Finally, they're the games when the… https://t.co/LfaqjVZDdO— LakerTom (@LakerTom) March 28, 2025
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what was lebron thinking ffs pic.twitter.com/sAmgqE1dKS— m⁷⁷ (@miss77ela) March 28, 2025
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One of the craziest finishes to an NBA game you’ll ever see. pic.twitter.com/AnEdq02ROh— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) March 28, 2025
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How bout guarding the zillion 3pt shots Bulls were taking to crawl back??
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That play right there is what cost us the game. I couldn’t believe seeing that.
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This game was over! The Lakers give up 6 points in 6 seconds. What an awful play from LeBron, would have been better off calling a timeout to advance the ball. pic.twitter.com/bIm4aE0TaE— Mo Dakhil (@MoDakhil_NBA) March 28, 2025
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Aloha,
That was the worst play that LeBron has made as a Laker. Throwing a lazy little bounce pass into double coverage is unacceptable. You can run the baseline after a basket. Just get the ball in. I don’t even mind them letting the Bulls back in down the stretch. 2nd of a back to back and they were tired. They also should have harassed Giddy. They only had 3 seconds. Don’t give him a straight line. This game can really bite us in the butt. Pathetic.
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I am still trying to figure out how this could happen.
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Obviously LBJ and Luka were outta gas & played really poorly!
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Lakers vs Bulls starters pic.twitter.com/F8f7ly4gB9— Trevor Lane (@Trevor_Lane) March 27, 2025
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It's so easy for these posters to create a false reality by just parroting something that appears to be connected. There is a reason why the Lakers defense fell off after March 6th after an impressive run at #1 since January 6. That reason was LeBron James.The big difference in… https://t.co/04xoJbMlUD pic.twitter.com/QA6ZnQCHUQ— LakerTom (@LakerTom) March 27, 2025
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72/82📸 ref @HagyPhoto pic.twitter.com/t3nT1tZu4d— Jack Perkins (@purehoop) March 27, 2025
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“It sucks,” Reaves said. “We probably had a high-percentage chance of winning after my layup went in. There’s not many half-court buzzer-beaters to lose a game. And it’s just, it’s frustrating.”
Chicago shot 11 of 14 from 3 and 15 of 19 overall in the final quarter. Redick noted there were several instances the Bulls pulled up in 3-on-1 and 3-on-2 situations and made 3s.
“I mean, 11 of 14 in an empty gym is really good,” Redick said. “So that’s unreal shooting.”
The loss dropped the Lakers to 44-29 — a squandered opportunity to make up ground in the Western Conference standings, considering the Memphis Grizzlies (44-29) had lost to the Oklahoma City Thunder earlier in the evening.
The Lakers have lost eight of 12 games and are just 1-3 since James and Rui Hachimura returned from their respective injuries last week (Hachimura did not play Thursday). Los Angeles is trending in the wrong direction, with the worst record over the past 10 games of the top eight teams in the West.
The Lakers close their four-game road trip in Memphis on Saturday, a potential preview of a first-round playoff series, before returning to Los Angeles for a three-game homestand and the final two weeks of the regular season.
This isn’t the first time this season the Lakers lost on a game-winning shot. Redick, who is big on reference points from earlier in the season, noted that the Lakers lost to the Orlando Magic on Nov. 21 and to the Atlanta Hawks on Dec. 6. After the Magic loss, the Lakers briefly spiraled, losing six of their next eight games, with four of those coming by 25-plus points. However, following the Atlanta loss, Los Angeles won eight of the next 11.
Only nine games remain for the Lakers, and the tight West playoff race will likely come down to the final day of the regular season. They are running out of time to reconnect and reestablish their level of defense from several weeks ago.
They have 48 hours to regroup, assess where things went wrong against the Bulls and make sure it doesn’t happen again against the Grizzlies.
“There’s another game in two days, less than two days, that’s how you do it,” James said. “That’s the NBA. You can’t go into a game on Saturday thinking about what happened on Thursday.”