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LeBron James, who finished with 24 points in Game 4, is out of contract with the Los Angeles Lakers and might have played his final game with the franchise [Adam Pantozzi\/Getty Images via AFP]Cavs level series with Pistons<\/p>\nReigning champions Oklahoma City Thunder remain undefeated in playoffs and move on to Western Conference finals.<\/p>\n
Published On 12 May 202612 May 2026<\/p>\n
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 35 points as \u200cthe visiting Oklahoma City Thunder advanced to the NBA Western Conference finals with a \u2060115-110 victory over \u2060the Lakers on Monday, completing a four-game sweep in what potentially was LeBron James\u2019 final game for Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Ajay Mitchell logged 28 points, Chet \u2060Holmgren produced 16 points and nine rebounds and Jared McCain added 13 points as the Thunder improved to 8-0 in the playoffs. Oklahoma City is set to face the \u2060Minnesota Timberwolves or the San Antonio Spurs in the next round.<\/p>\n
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The defending NBA champions shot 51.9% from the floor while the Lakers shot 50.7%. Oklahoma City won all eight games against Los Angeles in 2025-26, including the regular season.<\/p>\n
Austin Reaves put up 27 points while \u200cRui Hachimura added 25 points and eight rebounds for the Lakers, who head into the offseason with major changes possibly in store.<\/p>\n
James, 41, amassed 24 points and 12 rebounds. He is now set to become an unrestricted free agent after a record 23 seasons in the league.<\/p>\n
Jaxson Hayes added 18 points for Los Angeles, which played without Luka Doncic (hamstring) throughout its playoff run. Doncic was injured during \u2060a game at Oklahoma City on April 2.<\/p>\n
Gilgeous-Alexander made two free \u2060throws with 12.2 seconds remaining for a 113-110 lead, and Reaves missed what would have been a game-tying 3-point attempt with eight seconds left. Mitchell put the game away by sinking two free throws with 6.4 \u2060seconds to go.<\/p>\n
The Lakers trailed by as many as 12 points in the third quarter before going on a 22-9 run \u2060to take a 76-75 lead with 2:03 left \u2060in the period after getting seven consecutive points from Reaves. Los Angeles extended its advantage to 84-80 heading into the fourth.<\/p>\n
The Lakers led 92-87 before Mitchell capped an 8-0 run with a three-point play to give Oklahoma \u200cCity a 95-92 lead with 6:14 remaining.<\/p>\n
A four-point play from Hachimura, followed by a three-point play from Marcus Smart, put the Lakers up 110-109 with 40.9 seconds remaining. \u200cA \u200cdunk from Holmgren gave the Thunder a 111-100 lead with 32.8 seconds left.<\/p>\n
James missed a floater over Isaiah Hartenstein with 20 seconds left before Reaves and Smart missed late 3-point attempts.<\/p>\n
LeBron James, who finished with 24 points in Game 4, is out of contract with the Los Angeles Lakers and might have played his final game with the franchise [Adam Pantozzi\/Getty Images via AFP]Cavs level series with Pistons<\/p>\n
Earlier on Monday, Donovan Mitchell scored an NBA-playoff-record-tying 39 points in \u200cthe second half and finished with 43, powering the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 112-103 victory over the visiting \u2060Detroit Pistons in Game \u20604 of their Eastern Conference semifinals.<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers, who tied the best-of-seven series 2-2, put together a 24-0 run spanning halftime to stun the top-seeded Pistons. It was the most consecutive points \u2060in a playoff game in franchise history.<\/p>\n
Mitchell matched the mark for points in a half by Eric \u201cSleepy\u201d Floyd of the Golden State Warriors against the Los Angeles Lakers on May 10, 1987, in the West semifinals.<\/p>\n
Mitchell had just \u2060four points at halftime due to 1-of-8 field-goal shooting. After the break, he made 12 of 18 field-goal attempts, 3 of 7 3-point tries and 12 of 13 free throws in 17 minutes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI apologised to the group (at halftime),\u201d Mitchell said postgame on NBC. \u201c\u2026 Trying to set the tone early in the offence, and I didn\u2019t do that in the first half. I \u200ccame in and told my guys, \u2018It\u2019s on me,\u2019 But I tried to make a statement in the second half.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson added, \u201cIncredible performance, really, by Donovan. A big-time second half for Don. When Donovan starts to get in the open court, that\u2019s when he\u2019s at his best.\u201d<\/p>\n
The seven-time All-Star logged 21 points in the third quarter for the fourth-seeded Cavaliers. Game 5 of the series is on Wednesday in Detroit.<\/p>\n
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Donovan Mitchell, right, scored a series-high 43 points for the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 4 against the Detroit Pistons [Jason Miller\/Getty Images via AFP]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reigning champions Oklahoma City Thunder remain undefeated in playoffs and move on to Western Conference finals. Published On…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":791013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1339,1260,50,1926,62,67,132,68,72],"class_list":{"0":"post-791012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-sport","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-us-canada"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116561516269536566","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791012","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=791012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}