D’Angelo Russell tied the LA Lakers’ 3-point record by scoring more points than the famous Kobe Bryant.
After a great game against the Atlanta Hawks, D’Angelo Russell scored the most 3-pointers in a single season for the Los Angeles Lakers.
Before the second, third, and fourth rounds, D’Angelo Russell was quiet and didn’t do much. But after that, he started to get hσt. The 1996-born pitcher made two 3-pointers every 12 minutes and finished the game with a 6-10 record. He scored 25 points and had 10 assists in 30 minutes.
When D’Lo played like this, not only did he help the Los Angeles Lakers be𝓪t the Atlanta Hawks, but Russell also became the team’s player with the most 3-pointers in a season.
D’Angelo Russell ties Nick Van Exel’s record for the most 3-pointers made by the Los Angeles Lakers in a season, making more than Kobe Bryant.
With his six 3-pointers against the Atlanta Hawks on March 19, D’Angelo Russell had made 183 long-range shots this season
He be𝓪t the late great Kobe Bryant (180 hits in 80 games during the 2005–06 season) and tied Nick Van Exel for first place (183 hits in 80 games during the 1994–95 season).
Unlike Kobe Bryant and Van Exel, who each needed 80 games to make 180 and 183 3-point shots, D’Lo only needed 64 games to make 183 long shots that went in.
With 13 games left in the regular season, D’Angelo Russell will almost certainly soon hold the all-time long-throw record for the purple-and-yellow team.
Lakers fans went cr𝓪zy when D’Angelo Russell made two 3-pointers in more than 30 seconds, including the game-winning shot at the end of the third quarter.
Russell is scoring 17.9 points and 6.3 assists this season, and his 3PT success rate of 41.9% is the best of his career.
The best part of the 136-105 win over the Atlanta Hawks was when D’Angelo Russell tied the Los Angeles Lakers record for 3-pointers made. The whole starting group for the Lakers scored more than 10 points, including Russell, James, and Davis, who all scored over 22 points at the same time.
There were 39 assists in the game, which was the second most assists of the season (after 41 in the 133–112 win over the Charlotte Hornets). The LA team made 15 3-pointers.
Key Points 33 points and 39 assists helped the Los Angeles Lakers be𝓪t the Atlanta Hawks by 31 points.
With a record of 37–32, this win moved the Los Angeles Lakers back up to ninth place in the Western rankings, beating the Golden State Warriors (35–32), who had lost to the New York Knicks on the same day that this game happened.
The next game for LeBron James and his team is against the Philadelphia 76ers on Saturday, March 23 at 9:30 a.m. at Crypto.com Arena. In the next five days, the Sixers, Pacers, and Bucks will all be in town for three games. This is one of them.