After dropping eight of their last 10 games, the Los Angeles Lakers stunned the Houston Rockets on Wednesday with a 122-116 victory on the road behind Kyle Kuzma’s career-high 38 points.
With Brook Lopez sidelined for at least the next three weeks nursing a right ankle sprain, Luke Walton was forced to shake his starting lineup up and decided to move Larry Nance Jr. to the bench in favor of a front court featuring Andrew Bogut and rookie Kyle Kuzma. While Bogut did enough to justify staying on the floor, Kuzma was the Lakers’ shining star on Wednesday.