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Los Angeles, CA (SportsNetwork.com) - Russell Westbrook scored 31 points with 10 assists and five rebounds to lead the Oklahoma City Thunder to a 104-103 win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night. Reggie Jackson deposited 25 points, Serge Ibaka netted 16 points with seven rebounds and five blocks and Andre Roberson added 10 points for the Thunder, who played without Kevin Durant due to a sprained right ankle. Durant left Thursdays loss to the Warriors after sustaining the sprain late in the first half. Oklahoma City has won eight of its last nine games. This was a good win for us, said Westbrook. We came out with a good mindset and got the win. We took what the defense gave us and knocked down the shots. Ed Davis paced the Lakers with 18 points to go along with nine rebounds, while Ronnie Price and Carlos Boozer chipped in with 14 points apiece. Los Angeles has lost two straight on the heels of a three-game winning streak. Kobe Bryant finished with a season low-tying nine points on 3-for-15 shooting. He did add a team-high eight assists with eight rebounds. Obviously we fouled then way too many times, Lakers coach Byron Scott said. They got to the free throw line 29 times. Our margin of error is not big enough to do that to give up 29 free throws and give up 11 offensive rebounds. Boozers layup put the Lakers up 101-100 with two minutes to play, then Jackson hit a pair of free throws less than a minute later and Westbrook knocked down a jumper to put the Thunder up three with 38.2 seconds left. Jeremy Lins jumper cut the deficit to one prior to Westbrook missing from the top of the key to give Los Angeles a chance at the win. Out of a timeout, Bryant received the inbound pass, dribbled to the elbow and pump-faked to get Roberson in the air, but Roberson stood tall and Bryant came up short on the potential-winning basket. We were able to get some stops, said Jackson. We battled to the final zeros and found a way to win. The Lakers led 26-20 after the first quarter and the Thunder didnt grab their first lead until late in the second. Bryant knocked down his first field goal of the half with 1:54 remaining in the second to give Los Angeles a 48-44 lead. Oklahoma City then ended the half on an 8-2 run to take a 52-50 lead into the break. Ibakas dunk off a quick feed from Westbrook gave the visitors their first advantage with under a minute left before each team traded a basket in the closing seconds. Boozers layup tied the game at 70-70 with over two minutes left in the half. Roberson, Jackson and Anthony Morrow each hit 3-pointers during a 12-3 surge to end the frame and help the Thunder to an 82-73 lead entering the fourth. Los Angeles trailed by nine when Wayne Ellington hit two 3s, the last of which capped a 14-2 run to give the Lakers a 91-88 edge with 7:13 to play in the game. Game Notes Roberson has scored posted double-digit scoring outings in two straight games. He hadnt scored in double digits in his career prior to Thursdays loss to Golden State ... OKC has won seven of its last nine with LA ... Nick Young, who scored 10 points off the bench, was ejected after receiving a Flagrant-2 foul because of elbowing Steven Adams repeatedly in the throat early in the fourth ... Adams had a team-high 10 rebounds in the win ... The Lakers shot 48.2 percent from the floor. Patrick Maroon Jersey .Y. - DeMarre Carroll felt as though he couldnt miss in the second quarter as he outscored the Brooklyn Nets 14-13 all by himself. Zack Kassian Jersey . After losing Brett Cecil to groin tightness on Friday, the Blue Jays watched as R. http://www.hockeyoilersshop.com/paul-coffey-jersey/. - The Oakland Athletics say they are stopping negotiations to extend their lease at the Coliseum. Iiro Pakarinen Jersey . Serbia captain Bogdan Obradovic said his team will include 9th-ranked Janko Tipsarevic and 27th-ranked Viktor Troicki as he decided to let the top-ranked Djokovic rest. Custom Edmonton Oilers Jerseys . Dane Dobbie had four goals and two assists, Karsen Leung had two goals and two assists, and Matthew Dinsdale scored two and helped on another for Calgary (6-3). Shawn Evans and Jeff Shattler had eight-point games with a goal and seven assists apiece, and Jon Harnett and Geoff Snider also scored.The all-new Team Haas has scored 18 points in the first two races, two fewer than the long-established Williams team. The former has done it with a staff of 120 people and an annual budget believed to be in the region of £80m. The latter has a staff of over 600 and a budget around three times that of Haas.But while its been a remarkable achievement by Haas, the comparison with Williams is hardly a fair one. Williams is a bona-fide constructor, creating almost everything on its cars from scratch, the design based on data it has generated from its own wind tunnel and staff. By contrast, Haas has plugged into another team - Ferrari - to generate the data and got an outside sub-contractor - Dallara - to build a car based on the general layout of a Ferrari, with aerodynamic research conducted in large part by ex-Ferrari personnel in the Ferrari wind tunnel. The listed parts that cannot be provided by another team are: the monocoque, survival cell, front impact structures, roll-over structures, bodywork, wings, floor and diffuser. However, there is nothing saying these parts cannot be designed and/or built by an outside contractor (in this case, Dallara) that is not another team. Suspensions, brake ducts, rear crash structures, engines, transmissions can be, and are, supplied by Ferrari. The Haas business model - which required a change to the FIA regulation for the listed parts - is an even more vexed question now than when the project was first announced. Because what Romain Grosjean has been able to prove in both Melbourne and Bahrain is that the resultant Haas VF-16 is fully competitive with the cars of Williams and actually more competitive than cars from other bona-fide constructors such as Force India and Sauber.Although much improved since 2015, McLaren, with staff numbers nearing 1,000 and a budget believed to be in excess of £250m, were comfortably out-qualified and out-raced by Haas in Bahrain. There is every prospect of Haas securing a similar points-based income to the big teams, despite needing only a fraction of their outlay. Long term, it threatens to make the business model of teams such as Williams - not factory teams, but genuine constructors - obsolete.Had the new Haas arrived and proved no faster than other recent start-up teams such as Marussia or Caterham - both of which qualified as true constructors, building their own cars, using their own wind tunnel programmes etc - then existing independents would not be getting too upset. Thats clearly not the case and in Bahrain post-race, Grosjean was adamant there was even more performance to come.Well, first there is the normal development that we will have in terms of new parts and aero pieces, but there will be performance also just from getting more familiar with what we have, he said. We are still learning about this car and somme of the settings on it are very basic - the diff maps and so on - and these are things that we can develop as we do more running.dddddddddddd I actually think this is very important for the future of F1, says team principal Guenther Steiner. The cars are so advanced today, so much technology in these things, that if you start from zero with a new team, its impossible. I think unless we show this way is possible, then no-one new comes in future. If it becomes too difficult, thats not good.Initially the long listed parts list included high-price but low performance impact items, says Williams technical director Pat Symonds. But its since been eroded. I think this could be quite a bad development for F1.The Ferrari-Haas development has been a thorny subject, even among other factory teams. Mercedes asked the FIA for clarification at last years Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, not because of concern over the fate of independent teams, but because of the advantages knowledge gained during Haas unrestricted tunnel time (tunnel time restrictions only apply to a team once it has entered the championship and at the time the VF-16 was conceived, Haas was not an existing entrant) could have conferred upon Ferrari.The FIA stewards were able to allay Mercedes concerns with further clarifications on the wind tunnel and shared parts wording. Chinese GP on Sky TV times and full schedule for the Chinese GP on Sky Sports But for teams like Williams, Sauber, Force India and Manor, the concern is that it could lead to the formation of other second-tier factory teams, using something similar to the Ferrari-Haas model to create cut-price but high-performing teams that can comfortably out-perform genuine independents.With long-established independent teams such as Sauber reportedly in financial stress already, might other traditional independents come to find it impossible to perform their way out of difficulty? MHDont miss the F1 Report: Chinese GP preview on Wednesday at 8.30pm on Sky Sports F1. Five-time GP winner John Watson and F1 author Roger Smith join Natalie Pinkham to look ahead to round three of the season. Every race live in 2016 Sky Sports F1 brings you every race live in 2016. Fast and easy online upgrade - click here Also See: Haas living the American dream When is the Chinese GP on Sky? 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