The Los Angeles Lakers played home to the Brooklyn Nets on Friday night. They were trying to get back above 500 in the season, which is now just over halfway over.

The Nets had lost four straight games and nine of their last ten, while the Lakers had won two in a row and four of their last six. Those winning runs ended when the Lakers played terribly in the second half and lost 130–112.

Lately, Anthony Davis has been in a good mood. He continued that early in this game by making a jump shot and then a dunk to put the Lakers ahead. After that, D’Angelo Russell scored five straight points to give the Lakers an early 11–4 lead over his old team.

Russell kept the good play going early on with a layup and a second three-pointer, which made the score 22–11.

After coming off the bench, Cam Thomas scored 10 straight points for the Nets to keep them in the game. The Lakers did well at the end of the quarter, though. Russell and Christie made three-pointers that put them ahead 37–28.

When Lonnie Walker IV, a former Lakers guard, came back as a Net, he scored seven quick points to start the second quarter. However, LeBron James answered with back-to-back 3-pointers.

From there, Walker kept it going. He scored a lot of points, like Thomas did in the first quarter, to keep his team in the game.

He did answer again, though, this time with two-and-ones to get the home fans excited. Mikal Bridges finally got going on offense at the end of the half, though, and the Nets were only down 68–62 going into the break.

As the third quarter started, the Lakers were sloppy, and the Nets quickly took the lead with a Bridges three-pointer.

Even though L.A. called a break, their players were still having a tough game until Austin Reaves finally broke the spell with back-to-back layups. Still, Brooklyn kept putting up points and took a double-digit lead at 90-80.

Both of Jarred Vanderbilt’s three-pointers got the Lakers back in the game, but they were still 10 points behind with 10:10 left in the fourth.

To start the fourth, the Lakers were still having a tough time. James missed a few layups and got a technical for complaining about how few fouls were being called.

Following that, the Nets kept putting up points. Walker made another three-point shot to extend their lead to 18. The Lakers had many chances to score inside but couldn’t make them. The Nets would go on to easily win the game after a great second half.