Bates-diop leads Spurs’ rout of Lakers in last Staples Center game

Keita Bates-diop scored a career-high 30 points while making all 11 of his shots, and the San Antonio Spurs routed the slumping Los Angeles Lakers 138-110 on Thursday night in the final event at Staples Center under the 22-year-old arena’s original name.

The Spurs hit 18 3-pointers while completing a two-game sweep of the two NBA tenants of the downtown Los Angeles arena.

The building is changing its name to Crypto.com Arena today under what’s believed to be the richest naming rights agreement in sports history. The cryptocurrency platform and exchange is paying more than $700 million over 20 years to put its name on an arena that has hosted countless major sports and entertainment events since it opened in 1999.