DETROIT (AP) — Austin Reaves scored 43 points as the Los Angeles Lakers held off the Detroit Pistons 121-116 at Little Caesars Arena without Luka Doncic on Sunday.
Doncic (lower-back tightness), who is averaging 45 points, nine rebounds and eight assists over his last four games, was ruled out earlier on Sunday.
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Detroit Pistons guard Daniss Jenkins, left, drives to the basket past Los Angeles Lakers forward Ziaire Williams (11) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson)
Los Angeles Lakers head coach JJ Redick directs his team against the Detroit Pistons during the first half of an NBA basketball game Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson)
Detroit Pistons guard Cade Cunningham (2) drives against Los Angeles Lakers guard Collin Sexton (10) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson)
Los Angeles Lakers guard Austin Reaves (15) goes to the basket against Detroit Pistons guard Kevin Huerter (27) during the second half of an NBA basketball game Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson)
Walker Kessler added 12 points and 16 rebounds for the Lakers, who had lost four straight to Detroit.
Detroit, which trailed 40-14 early in the second quarter, could have tied the game at 90 with 9:14 left, but Cade Cunningham missed the second of two free throws.
Los Angeles got the lead back to six points with 3:32 left, and a Walker Kessler three-point play made it 107-99 with 2:15 to go.
Reaves hit an off-balance 3-pointer with 46 seconds left, then clinched the game from the line.
Daniss Jenkins scored a career-high 31 points in 32 minutes off the bench for Detroit, which has lost two in a row after a 6-1 start. Kevin Huerter added 24 points, also off the bench.
The Lakers broke the game open early, outscoring the Pistons by 24 points in the first quarter. The Lakers made 16 of 23 shots (69.6%), including five of eight 3-pointers (62.5%).
The Pistons gave themselves a chance with a strong second quarter, and Jenkins hit a 3-pointer at the halftime buzzer to pull them within 61-48.
Detroit continued to shoot well in the third, but Reaves scored 13 points to keep them at bay for most of the quarter.
The Pistons were still down 14 late in the third quarter, but finished a 13-2 run with four straight layups to cut the deficit to 84-81.
Detroit trailed by seven going into the fourth despite none of their starters scoring in double figures. Huerter and Jenkins alone outscored the starting lineup 44-30.
Lakers: At Atlanta on Monday night.
Pistons: Host Washington on Monday night.
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Detroit Pistons guard Daniss Jenkins, left, drives to the basket past Los Angeles Lakers forward Ziaire Williams (11) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson)
Los Angeles Lakers head coach JJ Redick directs his team against the Detroit Pistons during the first half of an NBA basketball game Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson)
Detroit Pistons guard Cade Cunningham (2) drives against Los Angeles Lakers guard Collin Sexton (10) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson)
Los Angeles Lakers guard Austin Reaves (15) goes to the basket against Detroit Pistons guard Kevin Huerter (27) during the second half of an NBA basketball game Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson)
Saudi Arabia said it intercepted incoming missiles targeting the kingdom's capital and other regions on Sunday, with falling debris damaging a building belonging to the state-owned oil giant Aramco in Riyadh’s financial district.
Meanwhile, the United Arab Emirates said it rescued 22 crew members after a fire broke out aboard a cargo ship in the Sea of Oman, as risks to commercial shipping in the region remain high. And in Israel, opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot formally got the first chance to form a new government.
Here is the latest news from the Middle East on Sunday. Read our full coverage here.
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to meet Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani at the White House on Monday, according to his official schedule.
Witnesses in Riyadh said they heard a loud explosion Sunday morning and described damage at an Aramco building in the King Abdullah Financial District. The witnesses spoke on condition of anonymity because of security concerns.
The Saudi Energy Ministry said there were no casualties at the Aramco facility.
The Saudi-led coalition said its air defenses intercepted two ballistic missiles and two cruise missiles targeting Riyadh and other regions early Sunday, accusing the Iran-backed Houthis of launching the weapons.
The Houthis' military spokesperson, Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, claimed in a statement Sunday that they had hit Riyadh’s financial district and other targets in response to attacks in recent days on a village and a market in Yemen, which he said left dozens dead or wounded and blamed on Saudi Arabia.
— By Sally Abou AlJoud in Beirut
The death toll from airstrikes that hit homes in Yemen’s capital Sanaa climbed to 44 people, mostly women and children, Houthi health authorities said Sunday.
The strikes Saturday in the village of al-Shariya, east of Sanaa, wounded 40 others including eight children and nine women, said Anees al-Asbahi, spokesman of the Houthi-run Health Ministry.
Among the dead were 21 children and 10 women, he said, making the strikes as one of the deadliest attacks in the latest bout of violence in Yemen’s year-along civil war.
Rescue teams were still searching the area for missing people, suggesting that the death toll could increase, Al-Asbahi said.
He blamed Saudi Arabia for the strike, which came during a major escalation in fighting between the Iranian-backed rebels and the kingdom and has killed hundreds of people in Yemen and dozens in Saudi Arabia.
The UAE National Guard said the crew members — all of Arab nationalities — were in stable condition following a rescue when their cargo ship caught fire in the Sea of Oman. The National Guard did not identify the vessel or specify the cause of the fire.
The British military organization that monitors maritime security incidents said Sunday that a tanker caught fire on Saturday northwest of Khasab, Oman, prompting the evacuation of its crew. It was unclear whether it was the same incident.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Sunday evening formally gave opposition politician Gadi Eisenkot the first chance to form the next government.
While complex coalition negotiations still lie ahead, this is a significant step in the former military chief’s effort to oust Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, after elections held in a deeply divided country scarred by the Hamas-led attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, and the multifront wars they triggered.
A large sandstone slab collapsed onto makeshift tents housing displaced Palestinians in central Gaza on Sunday evening, killing at least four people, including three children, according to health officials at Al-Aqsa Martyrs and Nasser hospitals.
Civil defense workers and residents in the city of Deir al-Balah searched through the rubble largely using their bare hands. Gaza has been battered by torrential rains over the past few days, which is believed to have contributed to the collapse.
Most of Gaza’s 2 million Palestinians are still displaced or live in tent camps, where they grapple with poor conditions and overcrowding.
The president told CNN in a phone interview on Sunday that as long as the U.S. continues to see progress in negotiations with Tehran and they sign a “strong agreement,” it’s “highly unlikely it’s going to be necessary” to resume strikes.
The president said, however, that the U.S. had identified infrastructure targets, including 38 bridges, that it would strike if military action resumes.
The region has been on edge over the possibility of a renewed all-out war.
The strategic Khor Mor gas field in Iraq’s semiautonomous northern Kurdish region was targeted by a drone attack late Sunday, officials said.
No casualties were reported and it was not immediately clear how much damage was caused, but the attack took the facility offline, causing widespread power outages.
Khor Mor is one of northern Iraq’s most productive natural gas fields, and its output is used to fuel power plants. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
Residents on Qeshm Island in the Strait of Hormuz reported hearing several explosions late Sunday evening, Iranian state media reported.
Similar reports have been made in previous days, with no official confirmation or claims as to what might have caused them.
Asked about the reports before heading to a G7 foreign ministers meeting in Paris, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio didn’t directly confirm new strikes but said the U.S. will make defensive actions.
“If there’s a clear and present threat to shipping or to our forces in the region, we have a right to defend ourselves,” Rubio told reporters in Florida.
Iran hanged three men Sunday in Karaj who were convicted of armed riot, damage to public properties and cooperation with Israel and the United States during nationwide anti-government protests in January, state TV reported.
Iran has hanged more than two dozen people on similar charges in various cities. International rights groups say political prisoners in Iran are tried in secretive courts without due process.
The protests, some of the largest ever held against the Islamic Republic's government, were largely stamped out when the United States and Israel went to war with Iran on Feb. 28.
An Israeli strike on Sunday killed two Palestinians, a man and woman, in Muwasi, a tent camp area on Gaza’s coast, said health officials at Nasser hospital.
Israel’s military said it had struck a “Hamas terrorist” in the area.
Sunday’s strikes came more than a year after a ceasefire deal was reached between Israel and Hamas, yet Israel still launches near-daily strikes on the enclave.
The State Department said Sunday that it had declared Ibrahim Charara, Lebanon’s consul general in Detroit, “persona non grata” after reviewing posts from up to five years ago celebrating the 1983 Hezbollah attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut. The posts were first reported by the Washington Free Beacon.
“Anyone in the United States who celebrates or justifies terrorist attacks has no place in our country,” the department said.
This report will be updated throughout the day as new developments emerge.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog, right, tasks Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the Yashar ("Straight") Party, with forming a government at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
Palestinians walk through a tent camp housing displaced people amid buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes during the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Displaced Palestinian children repair tents damaged by heavy rain in Gaza City, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
Gadi Eisenkot, leader of the Yashar ("Straight") party, waves an Israeli flag onstage following the release of the first exit poll results in Israel's general election in Tel Aviv, Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
This image taken from video released by Houthi-run Al-Masirah TV on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2026, shows a man watching smoke rise following what the channel described as an airstrike by Saudi-backed government forces on a town near Sanaa, Yemen. (Al-Masirah TV via AP)
