The Lakers achieved the goal they’d set out when they traveled to the Bay Area, winning Game 1 of their second-round series with the Warriors to take home-court advantage back to Los Angeles with them this weekend. Golden State got what it wanted Thursday, too — whatever it wanted, honestly, especially in the second and third quarters — in a 27-point blowout that knotted the series at one game apiece, putting the onus on Darvin Ham and Co. to tilt the balance back in their favor in the friendly confines of, um, Crypto.
Draymond Green’s defensive effort on Anthony Davis and other X-factors that will shape Warriors-Lakers Game 3
