Led by Anthony Davis’ 22 points, 12 rebounds, and 7 blocks, the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Memphis Grizzlies in Game 1, 128-112. Rui Hachimura (29 points, 5 3PM) and LeBron James (21 points, 11 rebounds, 5 assists) added a combined 50 points for the Lakers in the victory, while Jaren Jackson Jr. tallied 31 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists for the Grizzlies. The Lakers lead this best-of-seven series, 1-0, with Game 2 taking place on Wednesday, April 19 (7:30 p.m. ET, TNT).
Austin Reaves (14 points, 5-5 FG in 4th quarter) became the 3rd Laker over the last 25 seasons to finish 100% FG (min. 5 attempts) in the 4th quarter of a playoff game, joining:
Kobe Bryant (5/10/2002 vs Spurs)
Shaquille O’Neal (6/19/2000 vs Pacers)
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31 Comments
爆発！！やったぜ！
Skip Bayless is going to be crazy over how Rui and Austin saved LeBron's legacy
We Japanese love the Lakers.
We Japanese love the Lakers, and we are very happy that Hachimura is a member of the Lakers.
We are cheering for the Lakers from Japan, so please take good care of Hachimura, Lakers fans.
日本の誇り🇯🇵
🇯🇵🐐🇯🇵
Lakers to the championship
Rui's poster slam on JJJ was🔥🔥🔥
Japanese gonna crazy watching Rui performing like this in the best American basketball game
Love how rui actually care about the travel rules
He's shooting for change and is lest flat than in the regular season
Hell of a player
29！🍖！29！
I just noticed. He changed the arc of his shot. Its much higher now.
In order for the Lakers to make a deep playoff run, all of the other guys has to step up, like Rui and Reaves did, Dlo, Beasley, Schroder, and Vanderbilt has
to step up as well.
Bro I said and let me repeat it , he has been a good player off the bench and he has the ability to score the ball from anywhere and kind of remind me of kawaii when he started to play for the spurs , some times I see in him young Kawaii but anyways he played really good and made history for the lakers..amazing..
Rui smacking the grizzlies. Love to see it. 🔥🔥🔥💪
Jeff: I’m okay with Rui being the shooter…
Rui: 😏👌🏽
Van Gundy : I’m still good if Rui is the shooter ?
Rui : You sure ?!!!!!
He is the pride of Haiti!
Pelinka really made some crazy moves. This team is deep.
That boy was cooking them boys in the hot pot😂😂😂😂😂
ここのコメントが、日本語で溢れる日が来たか！
Great player and humble guy
rui like veteran move…
hachimura and reeves exchanging assists was cool
Bro activated his zone after training with kuroko
Put some respect on my man’s name. Rui Hachinura! Can’t believe this is the same team that started 2-10 and was struggling few weeks back. Pelinka made some great moves. Let’s go!!!
I use to like Memphis before they started acting like a bunch of dickheads ! Congrats to Rui and the Lakers on beating the Memphis Glizzies !
Lakers got a guy who has done 20 and 10 consistently before on two separate teams for nothing. An eighth overall draft pick.
Hachimura in playoff mode. Keep it up
he did awesome!!! cant wait for him to progress throughout his career with the lakers, and as a person in general, he'll be a awesome player in a few years time hopefully