{"id":167305,"date":"2021-01-31T11:06:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T08:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/anthony-davis-returns-in-style-as-lakers-nip-celtics\/"},"modified":"2021-01-31T11:06:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T08:06:15","slug":"anthony-davis-returns-in-style-as-lakers-nip-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/anthony-davis-returns-in-style-as-lakers-nip-celtics\/","title":{"rendered":"#Anthony Davis returns in style as Lakers nip Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Anthony Davis returns in style as Lakers nip Celtics<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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BOSTON \u2014 The Lakers started off their season-high, seven-game<\/a> road trip<\/a> by winning three of four before Anthony Davis was sidelined with an injury.<\/p>\n

He returned just in time to help his team avoid a third straight defeat.<\/p>\n

Davis had 27 points and 14 rebounds in his return to the lineup and Los Angeles hung on to beat the Boston Celtics 96-95 on Saturday night when Daniel Theis missed a follow shot at the buzzer.<\/p>\n

LeBron James finished with 21 points, seven rebounds and seven assists in the first meeting of the season between the longtime rivals. Montrezl Harrell added 16 points for the Lakers, who lost in Detroit on Thursday when Davis rested a bruised right quadriceps.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, personally, it\u2019s getting back in attack mode,\u201d Davis said. \u201cBeing aggressive. Crashing the offensive glass. Being in the paint. All those types of things. Everything that I did tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lakers coach Frank Vogel said the energy was completely different with Davis back on the floor.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s built up. He\u2019s getting into that mode right now. He\u2019s starting to pick it up. The injury set him back a little bit. \u2026 But we want him to be assertive. And when he\u2019s assertive on both sides of the ball, we\u2019re very difficult to beat.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Anthony Davis looks to make a move on Daniel Theis during the Lakers\u2019 96-95 loss to the Celtics. <\/figcaption>
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Jayson Tatum finished with 30 points and nine rebounds for the Celtics. Jaylen Brown added 28 points. Boston has lost five out of its last seven.<\/p>\n

The Celtics played the final 10:28 of the game without Marcus Smart, who was helped off the court with what the team said was a left calf strain following a collision with Harrell underneath the basket. Harrell tipped in a missed layup and stepped on Smart\u2019s foot as he came down.<\/p>\n

Smart crumpled to the court. He was helped to his feet but couldn\u2019t put any pressure on his leg as trainers carried him to the locker room. An MRI is planned for Sunday to get an extent of the injury.<\/p>\n

The Lakers surged following the injury. James broke an 85-all tie with a 3-pointer with 5:25 to play.<\/p>\n

The lead grew as high as 96-89. But a pair of free throws by Kemba Walker, a jumper by Tatum and turnover by James gave the Celtics life with 39 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n

Boston got the ball out of a timeout to Tatum, who got a floater to go in to cut the deficit to 96-95 and set up the final exchange. Walker knocked away Davis\u2019 jumper and then missed a jumper on the other end. Theis swooped in but couldn\u2019t get the follow to fall.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like the shot that we got,\u201d Brown said of Walker\u2019s jumper. \u201cWe\u2019ll take that 10 out of 10 times.\u201d<\/p>\n

Smart\u2019s injury was the latest blow to a Boston lineup that was playing with its projected starting lineup of Smart, Walker, Tatum, Brown and Theis for just the second time this season. Walker missed the first 12 games of the season recovering from a procedure on his left knee and Tatum missed multiple games earlier this month with COVID-19.<\/p>\n

The Celtics recovered from an uneven start and outscored the Lakers 29-19 in the third quarter to take a 78-71 lead into the final period.<\/p>\n

Boston gave the Lakers plenty of different looks on defense, including sending multiple double-teams at Davis and using a double-big man lineup that featured Theis and Robert Williams III.<\/p>\n

Theis played some of his best minutes of the season, contributing on both ends of the floor. It included a put back dunk over Davis in the third quarter.<\/p>\n

But the Lakers\u2019 reserves outscored their counterparts 35-15. They did it with a shortened group that featured only Harrell, Kyle Kuzma, Talen Horton-Tucker and Alex Caruso.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like the energy that they had,\u201d Vogel said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of depth, so we\u2019ll continue to use it.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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