2/24 | G58: Los Angeles Lakers at Oklahoma City Thunder | 7PM CST

[Thabo Sefolosha]

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LOS ANGELES LAKERS   at   OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER
7PM CST |
Location: Chesapeake Energy Arena
Lakers: 14-39 | #14 in West
Thunder: 32-25 | #7 in West

Next Game: Sun, Feb 26th vs New Orleans Pelicans
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PLAYER OF THE GAME
4 | Russell Westbrook
1 | Andre Roberson
1 | Cameron Payne
1 | Joffrey Lauvergne
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[oken]

OKC Frontcourt Bullies vs. Los Angeles Perimeter Softies

If Kanter is cleared to play, this should be an easy win.

[bondom34]

Looks like Kanter is back and McD and Taj are playing.

[Thabo Sefolosha]

Looks like Kanter is back and McD and Taj are playing.

Any word on the starting lineup? Taj and McD starting?

[Pillendreher]

Read on Twitter

[Pillendreher]

Ugh.

Read on Twitter

[Fabio19]

Well... at least we have the best bench big-duo in the league.

[InTheSabonus]

Not surprised by that. Donovan can be very flexible in some ways (see: Grant at center), but very stubborn in other ways. Particularly with starting certain guys. Just like Brooks was.

I wouldn't mind if Taj was just coming off the bench for one or two games to help him get acclimated, and then start him. But I doubt that's going to happen.

[ducler]

[NaturalThunder]

When was it announced Oladipo was out?

That sucks. First game back from the break, got two new players to acclimate on top of Kanter's return while playing with a cast on his shooting arm and our third best player and our only non-Westbrook player who can create his own shot is out? Awesome. I was hoping we'd start the post-ASB portion of our season with a home win against a team we should beat. Don't see it happening, now.

[thedoppelganger]

The way Royce has been reporting the aftermath of the trade, it sounds like Gibson will step into the starting lineup after a couple games.

Will be interested to see what this rotation looks like with Dipo out tonight. Bet we see a bit of Robes at the 2 and McBuckets at 3 which could be a nice combo.

[Bergmaniac]

Westbrook is really trying to pad his assists count tonight.

[Fabio19]

Westbrook is really trying to pad his assists count tonight.

I hope this is a joke.

Anyway, Abrines just got unleashed.

[NaturalThunder]

Turnovers and offensive rebounds are allowing the Lakers to hang around.

[spearsy23]

So all we really needed was to start Alex?

[NaturalThunder]

Every time we push the lead out to 8-10 points, we turn it over a few times, the Lakers hit a three or two, and it's right back to being a 3-4 point game.

[NaturalThunder]

We can't score. Russ can't make anything.

[NaturalThunder]

Can't get over that 8-10 point lead hump. We had possession up with a little less than a minute to go in the 2nd quarter and Abrines missed a wide-open three. The Lakers come down and hit a three in transition, we miss another three and the Lakers go down and score and it's a four point game again just like that. So frustrating.

[NaturalThunder]

Westbrook notches a triple-double in 20 minutes.

[NaturalThunder]

ABRIN3S!!!