Luka Doncic hits game-winner with 0.5 seconds remaining in overtime as Lakers beat Nuggets 127-125

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Luka Doncic made a fall-away jumper with 0.5 seconds remaining in overtime and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Denver Nuggets 127-125 on Saturday night.

Austin Reaves forced overtime when he rebounded his intentionally missed free throw and made a floater with 1.9 seconds remaining in regulation.

Doncic created enough distance from Spencer Jones to make the 17-foot shot, finishing with 30 points, 13 assists and 11 rebounds as he continued his spectacular play during Los Angeles’ five-game winning streak. Doncic then blocked Tim Hardaway Jr.’s desperation heave following a Denver timeout.

Reaves finished with 32 points, making the first free throw and then perfectly executing his missed second attempt off the front of the rim after the Nuggets fouled him to prevent a tying 3-point attempt leading 118-115 with 5.2 seconds left.

Nikola Jokic had 24 points, 16 rebounds and 14 assists for his 27th triple-double of the season. Aaron Gordon led the Nuggets with 27 points and Hardaway finished with 20.

Jamal Murray fouled out 31 seconds into overtime, finishing with five points, six rebounds and six assists on a miserable 1-for-14 night.

Houston, the Lakers, Denver and Minnesota all came into Saturday with 41 wins as they jockey to be as high as the third seed in the Western Conference. The Nuggets already held tiebreakers over the Rockets and Timberwolves by virtue of having won the season series against both teams, but the Lakers denied them a clean sweep in the crowded middle.

Deandre Ayton had four of his nine points in overtime and Marcus Smart hit a 3-pointer to put Los Angeles up with 30 seconds left, only for Jokic to score a driving layup up off the glass over Ayton to tie it with 15.1 to go.

Nuggets: Host the 76ers on Tuesday.

Lakers: Visit the Rockets on Monday.

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Los Angeles Lakers guard Austin Reaves, right, gestures after scoring a basket during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Denver Nuggets in Los Angeles, Saturday, March 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong)

Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Doncic, left, blocks the shot by Denver Nuggets forward Aaron Gordon during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles, Saturday, March 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong)

Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic, right, drives to the basket as Los Angeles Lakers center Jaxson Hayes defends during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles, Saturday, March 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong)

Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Doncic, right, shoots as Denver Nuggets guard Christian Braun defends during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles, Saturday, March 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong)

Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic, right, shoots past Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Doncic during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles, Saturday, March 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong)

CHICAGO (AP) — A broad and erratic patchwork of severe weather rumbled across much of the U.S. on Sunday, dumping heavy snow and making roads impassable in the Upper Midwest while damaging high winds swept across the Plains. Even Hawaii was affected, with parts hit by severe flooding.

Portions of the mid-South readied for late-day thunderstorms that forecasters say will spread eastward and by Monday threaten a large swath of the Eastern U.S., with mid-Atlantic states — including Washington, D.C. — most at risk for high winds and tornadoes.

Successive punches of snow, wind and severe weather are “going to impact the eastern half of the United States," AccuWeather senior meteorologist Tyler Roys said in an interview. Beyond the threat to lives and property, “whether it’s wind gusts from a squall line, blizzard or snow, or just wind because of the storm, you’re looking at several major airports being impacted.”

More than a foot (30.5 centimeters) of snow fell in some portions of the Minnesota and Wisconsin as of Sunday morning, according to National Weather Service reports, with another several inches likely to fall in the Minneapolis area amid blizzard warnings by the weather service.

Warnings of hazardous road conditions were issued across Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin, where transportation officials warned of worsening conditions Sunday with low visibility and snow-covered roadways.

“Roads are becoming impassable in many of Wisconsin’s northern counties,” the Wisconsin Department of Transportation said on social media. “Please stay off the roads to keep yourself and others safe.”

The weather conditions created headaches for air travel too with hundreds of cancellations.

More than 600 flights flying out of and into the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport were canceled Sunday, according to FlightAware, a website that tracks flight disruptions. Dozens more through Detroit were also scrapped.

Areas of central Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula are likely to see over 2 feet (61 centimeters) of snow, with higher isolated totals, Roys said. Lower snow accumulations in places like Chicago and Milwaukee late Sunday and Monday will still likely create troubles for commuters, he added.

While few to no power outages related to the weekend storm had been reported as of Sunday, roughly 150,000 utility customers in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan — where Friday's gusts reaching 85 mph (137 km) — remained without electricity early Sunday, according to PowerOutage.us, which tracks outages nationwide.

About 30 Nebraska National Guard have been deployed to help combat multiple wildfires across a broad swath of range and grassland, the state's Emergency Management Agency said.

Three of the largest wildfires have damaged well over 900 square miles (2,331 square kilometers), the agency said, including one identified by officials as the Morrill County fire that's burned well over 700 square miles (1,813 square kilometers).

One fire-related fatality was reported on Friday, and in a news release Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen urged residents to follow locally-issued evacuation orders, adding that winds were "supposed to be extraordinary” on Sunday.

The weather service issued a high-wind warning Sunday for most of Nebraska, with wind gusts of up to 60 mph (97 kph) possible amid falling snow. Roys said high winds will affect a region from the U.S.-Mexico border to the Great Lakes, and from Denver eastward to the Appalachian Mountains.

The National Weather Service warned that a line of severe storms with damaging winds would cross much of the Eastern U.S. by late Monday. It was to begin Sunday afternoon in the Mississippi, Tennessee and Ohio valleys.

The storm threat was expected to enter the Appalachians late Sunday and early Monday, then move toward the East Coast, where “severe thunderstorms with widespread damaging winds and several tornadoes” were expected during the day Monday, a weather service report said.

A stretch from parts of South Carolina to Maryland appeared most likely to experience particularly damaging winds Monday afternoon, the weather service said. That could include Raleigh, North Carolina; Richmond, Virginia and the nation's capital. The weather service said an increased — albeit much lower — risk stretched north to a portion of New York and south to northern Florida.

Rain also continued falling Sunday in Hawaii, where acres of farmland and homes have been flooded, roads have been closed and shelters open.

Flash flooding has been a problem in recent days on Maui, Molokai and the Big Island, where rain had been falling from 1 to 2 inches (2.5 to 5.1 centimeters) an hour overnight, according to the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency.

PowerOutage.us said about 48,000 electric customers were without power as of early Sunday.

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Robertson reported from Raleigh, North Carolina.

This photo provided by Maui County shows flooding from days of downpours in Hana, Hawaii, on Friday, March 13, 2026. (Maui County via AP)