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• Durant scored a season-high 42 points, Russell Westbrook had 27 points and 10 assists, and Oklahoma City easily sent the short-handed Lakers to their sixth straight loss, 116-101 on Friday night.
• Kevin Martin scored 15 points and hit three 3-pointers for the Thunder, who romped to a 27-point lead in the second half. Oklahoma City has won seven of nine, while Los Angeles is on its longest skid since March 2007 while playing without injured stars Dwight Howard and Pau Gasol.
• Oklahoma City (28-8) matched the Clippers for the NBA's best record -- and the Thunder made it look easy with a virtuoso game from Durant, who had 38 points midway through the third quarter.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Saturday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2013. There are 353 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Jan. 12, 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Sipuel v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma, ruled that state law schools could not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race.
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• On this date:
• In 1519, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I died.
• In 1773, the first public museum in America was organized in Charleston, S.C.
• In 1828, the United States and Mexico signed a Treaty of Limits defining the boundary between the two countries to be the same as the one established by an 1819 treaty between the U.S. and Spain.
• In 1912, textile workers at the Everett Mill in Lawrence, Mass., (most of them immigrant women) walked off the job to protest wage cuts.
• In 1915, the House of Representatives rejected, 204-174, a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote.
• In 1932, Hattie W. Caraway became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate after initially being appointed to serve out the remainder of the term of her late husband, Thaddeus.
• In 1959, Berry Gordy, Jr. founded Motown Records (originally Tamla Records) in Detroit.
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