The Los Angeles Lakers snapped their four-game losing streak with 111-102 victory over the L.A. Clippers on Christmas Day. When asked for the keys to their victory, Lakers point guard D’Angelo Russell could have cited a few things. The Lakers 15-2 run to open the third quarter was big, as was the fact that the Clippers were missing Blake Griffin and Chris Paul to start the game before losing shooting guard J.J. Redick midway through.
Russell kept things a bit simpler.
“We scored more points than them, we followed the game plan, everybody was proactive,” Russell told reporters.