How the Warriors victory over the Lakers has an impact

Even in 2025, there are few more fun things to look at in basketball than a battle during prime time between Steph Curry and LeBron James.

The two future fammera were back Thursday evening while their respective Jockey teams for sowing in the next qualifiers for the Western Conference. And Thursday in Crypto.com Arena, it was Curry and the Warriors who obtained the best of Los Angeles, going to a victory of 123-116.

Golden State entered the night by maintaining the unique possession of the seeded n ° 5, and they will stay there with a file of 45-31. If the Warriors lost Thursday evening, Golden State would have dropped in ninth place in the West – before the Clippers of Los Angeles (44-32).

As for the Lakers? They fell at 46-30, falling from seed n ° 3 to position n ° 4 behind the Denver Nuggets (47-30).

The Lakers still have six games against the Pélicans, the Thunder (twice), the Mavericks, the Rockets and the Trail Blazers. The Warriors also have six games to play against the Nuggets, the Rockets, the Suns, the Spurs, the Trail Blazers and the Clippers.

If the playoffs started on Friday, the Thunder and Rockets would play the two teams that emerge from the game tournament, while the seeded chips would face the Grizzlies n ° 6, and the series sessions n ° 4 would face the warriors of the n ° 5 during the opening round.