The Los Angeles Lakers , on the second night of a back-to-back, got punched in the mouth by the Phoenix Suns even though the Suns lost Devin Booker to a groin injury . Filled with execution lethargy on both ends of the floor, the Lakers got demolished to the tune of a 125-108 defeat. In fact, all the Lakers were playing for towards the end was LeBron James ' 10-point streak, which came so dangerously close to coming to an end.

James only had six points on 2-7 shooting from the field through the first three quarters as the Lakers struggled to stop a blistering Suns team that could not miss courtesy of heaters from Dillon Brooks and Collin Gillespie. The Lakers star was conspicuously absent, and with the game getting away from the Purple and Gold , it looked like head coach JJ Redic

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