A pair of teams jockeying for position at the top of the West standings play their second of three games against each other this regular season on Monday, March 31 when the Houston Rockets visit the Los Angeles Lakers at crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
The game is scheduled to start at 10 p.m. EDT and will be broadcast on TNT and truTV. Fans looking to watch this NBA game can do so for free by using DirecTV Stream, which offers a free trial or with SlingTV, which doesn’t offer a free trial but has promotional offers available. Max has plans starting at just $9.99/month, and includes movies, original series and more.
Houston has an edge in the standings currently and can lock up a crucial win in the season series with Los Angeles with a victory Monday. The Rockets won the first meeting with the Lakers, 119-115, and they enter this contest on a three-game winning streak. At 49-26, Houston is two games ahead of the Denver Nuggets for second in the conference and 3.5 games ahead of the fourth-place Lakers.
Los Angeles has gone 5-5 in its last 10 games and is now 45-29. The Lakers are one game ahead of the Memphis Grizzlies for home court in the first round, two games ahead of the Golden State Warriors in sixth, and 2.5 games ahead of the Minnesota Timberwolves and the seven seed and a spot in the play-in.
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Who: Houston Rockets vs. Los Angeles Lakers
When: Monday, March 31 at 10 p.m. EDT
Where: crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles
Stream:Sling; DirecTV Stream; MAX
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CLEVELAND (AP) — James Harden made a milestone 3-pointer on Sunday as the NBA continues barreling toward another record-setting season from beyond the arc.
Harden’s 3-pointer with 5:23 left in the second quarter of the Los Angeles Clippers’ 127-122 loss in Cleveland was the 30,000th in the NBA so far this season.
It is now four consecutive seasons with at least 30,000 3s in the league. That figure had not been reached before the 2021-22 season — and this year’s barrage comes with the reigning NBA champion Boston Celtics nearing single-season records for 3s made and attempted by a team.
Boston has made 1,323 3s this season, 40 away from matching the mark set by Golden State two seasons ago. And the Celtics have taken 3,574 3s this season, 147 away from the record set by the Houston Rockets in 2018-19.
Boston has eight games remaining and is on pace to break those league single-season records later this week.
The NBA is also on pace to smash the current total records for 3-pointers made and attempted in a season. The league record of 31,579 made 3s was set last season and the record of 86,535 attempted was set in the 2021-22 season.
Entering Sunday, the league was on pace for about 33,200 made 3s this season and about 92,250 attempted.
It may have been fitting for Harden to make Sunday’s milestone 3 — since he made another one earlier this season. Harden joined Golden State’s Stephen Curry as the only players in NBA history with at least 3,000 regular-season career 3-pointers when he connected on his 60th of the season in a win over Denver on Dec. 1.
The Associated Press contributed to this article