Highlights: Lakers 120-101 Thunder in NBA

Lakers 120x101 Thunder

Georgios Kalaitzakis has 25 points and Jaylen Hoard, 27. However, it will not be suficient for the OKC win.

Lakers 15 ahead with little more than 3 minutes left

Thunder player is the only one of the ten starters of the game that hasn't reached double digits yet. He has six.

This is the last game of the Lakers at home this season

Lakers ahead by eight

2min51s remaining in the third quarter

Austin Reaves misses for three from far right side corner, without defense on him

Lakers 7 x 12 Thunder

Center receives good pass in the lane and dunks with strenght

Lakers with early timeout in the quarter

Second half begins

Lakers 56x52 Thunder

Hoard grabs rebound from 3PT try with a tip directly to the basket

PF reaches 17 points and ninve rebounds, close to a double-double

Thunder cuts down the difference to four

Stanley Johnson carries the ball since defense, dribbles past two defenders, converts on the layup and picks up the foul. FT is also good.

Lakers get ahead and lead by seven

OKC forward is the leading scorer right now, with 11 points

Tight game, with Thunder ahead by 1

Lakers player hits for three from the left against good defense

3min35s left in the first quarter

Lakers 40% x 66.7% Thunder

Austin Reaves steals on defense and then passes high to Monk on offense, that dunks

OKC player twists his ankle and starting limping when walking

Game begins

As NBA standard, the cerimony begins at the official time, but the game, a few minutes later

Up first in LA ⚡️

Presented by @EnergyTransfer pic.twitter.com/96TwDTfLPr — OKC THUNDER (@okcthunder) April 9, 2022

First five on the floor. #SuitingUpTogether | @ToyotaSoCal pic.twitter.com/GHSGtmdGqI — Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) April 9, 2022

We are moments away from the game, the last one of this night of NBA. Stay tuned.

The ball goes up at 10:30pm (ET) in Los Angeles. Do not miss a detail of the match Lakers - Thunder live updates and commentaries of VAVEL.

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This is the start time of the game Lakers vs Thunder on April 8th, 2022, in several countries:

Argentina: 11:30 PM in NBA League Pass

Bolivia: 10:30 PM in NBA League Pass
Brazil: 11:30 PM in NBA League Pass

Canada: 10:30 PM in NBA League Pass
Chile: 10:30 PM in NBA League Pass
Colombia: 9:30 PM in NBA League Pass
Ecuador: 9:30 PM in NBA League Pass
USA (ET): 10:30 PM in NBA League Pass

Mexico: 9:30 PM in NBA League Pass
Spain: 4:30 AM (Fri. to Sat.) in NBA League Pass
Paraguay: 10:30 PM in NBA League Pass
Peru: 9:30 PM in NBA League Pass
Uruguay: 11:30 PM in NBA League Pass
Venezuela: 10:30 PM in NBA League Pass

The two teams played against each other three times this season up to now, all in 2021. Thunder won the first two games, on October 27th in Oklahoma and then on the road, on November 4th.

Lakers won the latest matchup, on December 10th, in Oklahoma.

Lakers: Talen Horton-Tucker, Malik Monk, Austin Reaves, Stanley Johnson and Dwight Howard

Thunder: Zavier Simpson, Vit Krejci, Georgios Kalaitzakis, Jaylen Hoard and Isaiah Roby

Big list of unavailable players for Thunder: Luguentz Dort, Ty Jerome, Mike Muscala, Josh Giddey, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Darius Bazley, Derrick Favors, Kenrich Williams and Tre Mann

The big three is probably not playing tonight: LeBron James, Russell Westbrook and Anthony Davis, all with injuries. Kendrick Nunn has the same situation.

Carmelo Anthony is also doubtful with illness not-related to Covid-19.

The Lakers vs Thunder match will be played at the stadium Crypto.com Arena, in Los Angeles, with a capacity of 20,000 people.

The home team has a 20-20 record there in the season, while OKC is 12-27 on the road.

My name is Gustavo Cipriano and I’ll be your host for this game. We will provide you with pre-game analysis, score updates, and news as it happens live here on VAVEL…

Tonight for the NBA, the 11th in the West Los Angeles Lakers (31-49) host the Oklahoma City Thunder (24-56), currently in 14th in the same conference.

Both teams are already out of the playoffs. They can no longer reach not even the play-in zone.