NBA action on Thursday, December 5 includes a matchup with the Golden State Warriors hosting the Houston Rockets at the Chase Center in San Francisco.
The game is scheduled to begin at 10:00 PM EST and will be broadcast NBA TV, NBC Sports Bay Area and Space City Home Network. Fans who want to watch this NBA game can do so for free by using DirecTV Stream, which offers a free trial. They can also look with FuboTVwhich offers $30 off the first month o SlingTV, which doesn’t offer a free trial but has promotional offers available.
The Warriors have lost five straight to fall to 12-8 on the season. Last time out, they blew a fourth quarter lead against the Denver Nuggets and lost 119-115.
The Rockets also come into this game with a loss that halted a three-game winning streak. Houston is 15-7 and looking to bounce back from a 120-111 loss to the Sacramento Kings.
WHO: Houston Rockets vs. Golden State Warriors
When: Thursday, December 5th at 10:00 PM EST
Where: Chase Center in San Francisco
Transmission: FuboTV; Sling; DirecTV Stream (free trial)
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By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer
MIAMI (AP) — A 29-point loss at Minnesota on Monday. A 41-point loss at Miami on Wednesday.
Add it up and it’s the worst two-game stretch in Los Angeles Lakers history.
The Lakers lost to the Heat 134-93 on Wednesday, a loss that came two days after a 109-80 loss to the Timberwolves. The margin of 70 points is a historic low of two games for the Lakers; they were outscored by 67 in two separate stretches of two games in the 2016-17 season.
“It sucks, no doubt, for your (ass) to shoot like that twice in a row,” Lakers star LeBron James said. “Sure.”
The Lakers snapped a six-game winning streak last month to move to 10-4. They are 2-6 as four of those losses come by 25 or more points. Wednesday was the low point; the 41-point loss was not only a season-worst, but it marked just the 11th time in Lakers history, more than 6,800 games, including the playoffs, that they have lost by more than 40.
“I’m embarrassed,” Lakers coach JJ Redick said. “We are all embarrassed.”
Redick is now 12-10 in Year 1 as coach, and that stretch has obviously been the toughest yet. He vacillated in his postgame comments Wednesday between pointing the finger at himself: “I’m going to take all the ownership in the world. This is my team and I lead it,” he said, saying the team has trouble with the simplest parts of the game plan.
“I don’t feel like we’re ‘together’ right now,” Redick said. “And this is what we say at the meeting. It doesn’t feel that way. It doesn’t feel that way. We’re in a tough spot and we’re all trying to find it.”
Miami outscored the Lakers 72-15 from 3-point range, that 57-point differential tied for the fourth-largest in NBA history.
“Right now we’re struggling on both ends with basic-level game plan stuff,” Redick said. “It’s weird. It’s really weird.”
Anthony Davis scored a game-low 12 points for the Lakers on Monday. He was four points worse Wednesday on 3-for-14 shooting.
“The boys are doing their part. I’m not doing my thing, which is hard for our team,” Davis said. “I just have to play better individually on both ends. I hold myself to a higher standard and I haven’t been doing what I need to do, especially offensively for our team.”
James said he agreed with everything Redick said, and Davis even echoed a word his coach used several times.
“Embarrassing,” Davis said.
James expects the rest of the Lakers locker room to take on that level of responsibility. He insisted that 22 years in the league has taught him not to get too high when things are going well or too low when things are going bad.
But back-to-back games like this represent something he’s never dealt with. The Lakers play at Atlanta on Friday, return home to face Portland on Sunday and then have a few days off — the NBA Cup quarterfinals on Dec. 10 and 11 are a break built into to the teams that did not go to the knockout stages. phase of this tournament: practice and look for solutions.
“When you’re one-on-one and you’re trying to rely on everybody to cover you, I think it starts with the individual first,” James said. “We all have to take responsibility.”
The Associated Press contributed to this article