Austin Reaves makes an appearance on Lakers beat writer Jovan Buha's podcast

#PlayGilesOverHayes

Anthony Davis (bilateral Achilles tendinopathy), LeBron James (left ankle peroneal tendinopathy) and Cam Reddish (right ankle sprain) have been upgraded to AVAILABLE for tonight’s game vs. Oklahoma City.

Darvin Ham says that the next updates on Gabe Vincent and Jarred Vanderbilt should come next week.

Darvin Ham said the key to defending OKC for the Lakers will be "trying to keep the ball in front of you. You have to be smart with your closeouts, try to keep them out the paint. They lead the league in drives per game, so just try to control the ball. Having that individual pride on the ball, and early shifts in activity off the ball. Their drive-and-kick game is intense. Very high-level.”

OKC coach Mark Daigneault spoke pregame on the Lakers' size and physicality and how his team can combat that:

Starting lineup

11-2 OKC run

Ham didn't call a timeout

Lakers score 4 points

OKC coach calls a timeout immediately to stop the momentum

Reaves saved the rest of this quarter but the ball needs to be in DLO or Bron's hands more when he's on the court.

He had too many bad turnovers.

Hayes actually providing good mins tonight

He's been better recently

DLO going off

Kings just lost the Bulls

Colby White just did the Lord's work

Harry Giles makes his Lakers debut

fun game, if we can beat Kings next it’ll get real interesting

Austin Reaves tonight:

16 points
6/8 FG
4/5 3PT
7 Assists
+8

DLO tonight:

26 points
9/17 FG
5/11 3PT
+4

Spencer Dinwiddie tonight:

2 points
1/4 FG
3 Assists
1 Block
+35

Taurean Prince tonight:

16 points
5/7 FG
4/6 3PT
6 Rebounds
+29

AD tonight:

24 points
7/12 FG
12 Rebounds
3 Blocks
+10

Darvin Ham said he told the Lakers at halftime he thought they had played their best defensive first half of the season.

"Kudos to our guys. They really stepped up and defended really, really well...All our guys were like-minded in terms of having a defensive mentality."

Lakers this season are

3-1 vs OKC
3-1 vs Clippers
3-2 vs Suns

Lakers next 5 games

Darvin Ham on Russell’s 3 straight triples to seal the win:

“He has those D-Lo moments. He can throw it up any kind of way and (it goes in) the hoop … D-Lo is uber talented, and we need him to play at that level.”