The Lakers, the league's best defense since Jan. 15, will have to rely more on that end of the floor to generate transition offense.

After blowing huge leads in back-to-back games against Golden State and Charlotte, when the Nets got the Lakers down on Monday, they kept them down. The Nets put together a slump-busting 111-108 victory over the Lakers before a sellout crowd of 18,

A switch was flipped for LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers in mid-January. After two games were postponed due to the L.A. wildfires, the Lakers came back to action and were smoked by the San Antonio Spurs by 24 points on Jan.