Los Angeles got the job done rather well with a 125-109 win over the Spurs, who are without Victor Wembanyama and De'Aaron Fox for the rest of the season. The win pushed the team into fourth place in the Western Conference and kept it within one game of the second-place Houston Rockets.

Lakers Top Performers Austin Reaves – 30 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists Luka Dončić – 21 points, 9 rebounds, 14 assists Spurs Top Performers Stephon Castle – 23 points, 8 rebounds Devin Vassell – 17 points,

I had tickets to both of the back-to-back Spurs games in Los Angeles scheduled for early January. The wildfires led to the cancellation of the first of those games, as I recounted here. That post ended with this: In an effort to clear my mind a bit,