LOS ANGELES — It looked like the Los Angeles Lakers turned over a new leaf Tuesday. But on Wednesday, they simply turned over the ball — again and again.

Twenty-four hours after tying a team record for three-pointers in an easy victory over Memphis, LA couldn't recover from another slow start and fell to the Sacramento Kings, 125-110, at Crypto.com Arena.

The Lakers committed a distressing 23 turnovers and short-circuited their attempt to remain one of only four undefeated teams at home.

Their deficit swelled to as many as 26 before LeBron James led a spirited fourth-quarter comeback. In fact, the Lakers trailed by only nine after Cam Reddish’s three-pointer with 3:05 to play.

But LA was undone by, no surprise on this night, turnovers. James lost the ball in the lane, then Austin Reaves had an errant pass and the starters were sent to the bench down 11 with 1:26 to play. The game was over.

The loss dropped the Lakers to a mediocre 6-6 record on a night they couldn’t take advantage of James’ impressive triple-double — 28 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists. He moved into fifth place on the NBA’s all-time list with 108 triple-doubles. He turns 39 next month.

Lakers forward Anthony Davis wasn’t close to his usual self, scoring only nine points on three-for-nine shooting. He seemed to labor up and down the court throughout the night, took only nine rebounds and committed five turnovers in 35 minutes.

"I just played bad,” he said. “I’m not going to put it on anything. It was just missed shots.”

Over the last week, Davis has tried to fight through hip spasms and a sore groin. It was obvious he lost the fight on the second night of a back-to-back.

“I’m still treating it every day,” he said. “Obviously you don’t get that day to really attack it with a back-to-back. But it is what it is. I suit up. I will play. Obviously it was still bothering me a little bit, but I’ve still got to go out there and do my job.”

Lakers coach Darvin Ham didn’t blame Davis for a poor night.

“Sometimes you have games like that," Ham said. “He can go head to head with anybody. Tonight just wasn’t his night.”

It also wasn’t a great night for the Lakers’ defense.

Granted, turnovers led to many easy baskets for Sacramento. But the Kings (6-4) had plenty of success in their regular push-the-pace offense.

Center Domantas Sabonis had 29 points, 16 rebounds and seven assists while making 13 of 19 shots. Shooting guard Kevin Huerter made six three-pointers and scored 28 points. Point guard De’Aaron Fox also had 28 points in his second game back from an ankle injury that sidelined him almost two weeks.

The trio combined for 53 points as Sacramento took a 72-59 halftime lead.

The Lakers put up some impressive numbers too despite falling to 5-1 at home. D’Angelo Russell made four threes and scored 28 points. Reddish continued his recent run with 16 points.

There was just that one nagging problem. Well, 23 of them.

“It had an effect on the game,” said James, who had six turnovers. “I think definitely the turnovers [hurt]. They did a good job of being in the passing lane. We turned the ball over way too many times and allowed them to score off our turnovers.

The Lakers’ next game is Friday in Portland, where they continue the NBA’s inaugural in-season tournament. The Lakers are 2-0 in it so far with victories over Phoenix and Memphis.

“I’ll be fine,” Davis said Wednesday before a reporter could fully ask him if he’d play Friday. “Yeah, I’ll play, for sure.”