{"id":546363,"date":"2026-01-27T07:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/546363\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T07:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:55:09","slug":"luka-doncic-scores-46-points-as-the-lakers-beat-the-bulls-129-118-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/546363\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic scores 46 points as the Lakers beat the Bulls 129-118 \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luka Doncic had 46 points, 11 assists and seven rebounds, and the Los Angeles Lakers cooled off the Chicago Bulls with a 129-118 victory on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>LeBron James scored 20 of his 24 points in the first half as Los Angeles improved to 3-1 on an eight-game trip. Rui Hachimura added 23 points on 9-for-11 shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers were swept by Chicago in their two-game series last season, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/bulls-lakers-giddy-buzzer-beater-bc98fa9d419d390b6b99308a2061ea2d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a wild 119-117 loss<\/a>\u00a0at the United Center on Josh Giddey&#8217;s half-court shot at the buzzer.<\/p>\n<p>Coby White scored 23 points for Chicago on Monday night, and Ayo Dosunmu had 20. The Bulls had won four in a row and five of six overall.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago went 18 for 49 from 3-point range. It has made at least 17 3s in its last five games.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles led by as many as 20 points, but Chicago closed to 81-80 on Nikola Vucevic&#8217;s two foul shots with 6:42 left in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>But Marcus Smart responded with a three-point play for the Lakers. Doncic then made two free throws and Hachimura connected from deep to make it 89-80 with 4:38 left.<\/p>\n<p>Doncic made a 3 and another foul shot to lift Los Angeles to a 104-89 lead going into the fourth. Doncic scored 20 points in the third on 6-for-9 shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers shot 56% (46 for 82) from the field, including a 16-for-33 performance from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls had six players score in double figures. Vucevic had 18 points and 11 rebounds, and Giddey finished with 19 points.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles moved in front with a 25-6 run that started late in the first quarter and carried over to the second. James&#8217; fast-break jam made it 51-37 with 7:19 left.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls closed the first half with a 7-0 spurt, trimming the Lakers&#8217; lead to 69-56. Doncic had 17 points and eight assists in the first half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic had 46 points, 11 assists and seven rebounds, and the Los Angeles Lakers cooled off the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":546364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,8604,224,3141,5337,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-546363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-lakers","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","14":"tag-losangeles","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115965993358183571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}