Darvin Ham again pointing to defensive rebounding as an area that the Lakers need to improve in to win big games like this.

Darvin Ham on defending Nikola Jokic: "You just have to fight as hard as you can for as long as you can, and hope he misses...You just have to keep throwing stuff at him."

On beating the Nuggets: "At some point we'll overcome what we're going through with this team."

Darvin Ham:

"Good looks didn't go down for us, some untimely turnovers. We'll look at it and learn our lesson and try to be better for it."

Austin Reaves:

"To beat them, you have to be good in the fourth quarter... At the end of the day, no one is gonna feel sorry for us. We have to figure it out."

Austin Reaves on the Nuggets: “They have a beautiful system around those two guys.”

Rui Hachimura on another loss to the Nuggets:

"We're always there, but those last two or three minutes, we let them score, whatever they want to do... We tried a lot of different defenses on them, but they're a really good team. Everybody can score, they play for each other."

This month will be hell

Austin Reaves on what it means to be teammates with LeBron James every day:

“It’s just greatness, right in front of all our eyes.”

Anthony Davis says the Lakers need to dissect the film to figure out what went wrong down the stretch to fix it if they see the Nuggets again in the playoffs.

Anthony Davis on LeBron:

"He might have to stop breaking records because we lose every time he breaks a record... I guess this one was more of a milestone than the record."

Has Bron ever gotten swept three times in consecutive series? That’s a record

LeBron said he appreciated the recognition for 40K, and always appreciates doing something that hasn't been done. But it's bittersweet coming in a loss:

“For me the main thing is always the main thing and that’s to win, so I hate that it happened in defeat,” he allowed.

LeBron said he looked up at his family after reaching 40K and his daughter blew a kiss to him, which was special since it was Girl Dad night.

"She runs everything. What Z says goes in our household."

LeBron James on another loss to the Nuggets:

"I just want to figure out a way that I, we, can be better against this team. They have our number."

LeBron says the biggest challenge when facing the Nuggets is that they have five scoring threats on the floor and that Jokic can do "anything."

LeBron on if there's an answer for Nikola Jokic right now: "No. There is none."

LeBron on what he would tell his 18-year-old self. “I wouldn’t tell him anything, honestly, because 18-year-old LeBron had a great head on his shoulders.”

“Everybody wanted to see me fail when I got to the league.”

Ice Cube's son speaks on the 4th quarter collapse:

JHS Highlights against the Texan Legends | 27 Points, 5 Rebounds, 4 Assists

This twitter thread provides a good breakdown of what happened in the last minutes of this game.

it’s cool but also pretty odd to see bron reach all these gargantuan milestones with a franchise who’s fanbase kinda hated him for most of his career

Best player in the game by a mile rn

Injury report for tomorrow

LeBron was named the Western Conference Player of the Week

He averaged 30.3 points (56.9 FG%, 50.0 3FG%), 4.7 rebounds, 8.7 assists, 1.3 steals and 1.0 blocks as LAL went 2-1.