{"id":72601,"date":"2026-04-25T02:13:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/lebron-james-rescues-lakers-in-overtime-thriller-and-pushes-rockets-to-brink\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T02:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:13:40","slug":"lebron-james-rescues-lakers-in-overtime-thriller-and-pushes-rockets-to-brink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/lebron-james-rescues-lakers-in-overtime-thriller-and-pushes-rockets-to-brink\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James rescues Lakers in overtime thriller and pushes Rockets to brink"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>James\u2019 late three-pointer forces overtime in win<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Lakers can complete sweep in Houston on Sunday<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>LeBron James scored 29 points, including a tying three-pointer with 13 seconds left in regulation, Marcus Smart had eight points in overtime and the Los Angeles Lakers took advantage of a Houston Rockets team missing Kevin Durant for a 112-108 win Friday night to take a 3-0 lead in the Western Conference first-round series.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers rallied from a six-point deficit with under 30 seconds remaining and can sweep the series Sunday night in Houston.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/25\/lebron-james-lakers-rockets-game-3-nba-playoffs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James\u2019 late three-pointer forces overtime in win Lakers can complete sweep in Houston on Sunday LeBron James scored 29 points, including a tying three-pointer with 13 seconds left in regulation, Marcus Smart had eight points in overtime and the Los Angeles Lakers took advantage of a Houston Rockets team missing Kevin Durant for a 112-108 &#8230; <a title=\"LeBron James rescues Lakers in overtime thriller and pushes Rockets to brink\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/lebron-james-rescues-lakers-in-overtime-thriller-and-pushes-rockets-to-brink\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about LeBron James rescues Lakers in overtime thriller and pushes Rockets to brink\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}