OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) In a new reversal of roles, Kobe Bryant as well as the Los Angeles Lakers know there're the actual predators endeavoring to hunt down Kevin Durant's Oklahoma City Thunder.
They have got a number of work in order to do.
Durant had 36 points, Russell Westbrook obtained 27 of his thirty-three from the earliest 1 / 2 to share Oklahoma City to somewhat of a powerful head as well as the Thunder beat the short-handed Lakers 114-108 Friday night.
"They're a team that anyone likes. As a youthful company coming up, everyone often would like to beat that best," Westbrook said. "I feel that may be one of the points in which drives us."
Bryant experienced 35 factors regarding Los Angeles, that trailed by simply as much as nineteen just before rallying to acquire inside of four while in the ultimate minute.
Dwight Howard added 23 tips and 18 rebounds for your Lakers, who seem to had been taken out from the Thunder throughout several games around past season's Western Conference semifinals. Howard plus Steve Nash were section of an offseason modernize to use and also pick up as long as the actual Thunder.
Instead, the actual Lakers are 9-11 and also emphasizing small gets that customers the belief they could at some point change it around.
"It's 82 games. This group possesses just picked up together," Howard said. "It's unlike we're gonna receive mutually and start off succeeding right away. . We're mastering the way to try out together. We're becoming better. This is not really on anybody's time dining room table but ours."
Westbrook's massive initial fifty percent squeeze Thunder with control, although L.A. priced again which includes a late 27-12 cost cause it to interesting.
The game mature tense whenever Metta World Peace already a open enemy in Oklahoma City after your dog clocked James Harden previous months and Serge Ibaka each acquired techie fouls to get a confrontation in the final minutes.
World Peace grabbed Ibaka's back as well as the a couple of barked with each one different face to face and torso to be able to chest, with Ibaka next grasping the back regarding World Peace's jersey. Ibaka rared to come back with his proper fist clenched, but the two were segregated before this dizzying heights almost any further.
"It's always that adheres to that with us, in particular Metta World Peace and also Serge," Durant said. "Those people are just using hard. I never think it had been almost nothing harmful or harmful plays, just simply people trying to play hard."
The Lakers in no way insured down. After trailing simply by 12 with 1:32 remaining, Jodie Meeks driven for any couple of layups as well as Chris Duhon followed having a 3-pointer to be able to reduce the actual debts to 110-105. Bryant used Durant's two free brings with a 3-pointer on the part for getting the deficit down to four with fifteen moments left.
Durant hit a pair of strong images as well as Meeks airballed a 3-pointer because the rally fizzled.
"They're a challenging team," Durant said. "They argued back hard all night time and also made it tough on us."
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