LOS ANGELES — Labor peace is at hand. On Friday, the NBA and the NBPA both ratified the next Collective Bargaining Agreement, which will run through the 2023-24 season. That’s great news for basketball fans in general. A lockout has been averted.
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Lakers started the season with such great promise, upsetting teams like the Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets and Chicago Bulls in the early going. The young Lakers were the buzz of the NBA, at least for a month. That
After 30 games, it’s safe to say we have a good idea of what the Los Angeles Lakers will be this season. Exciting. Flawed. Loaded with potential. More than likely not a playoff team, though that should have been the expectation coming into the seaso
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Lakers pulled out a short-handed win on the road over the Chicago Bulls, 96-90, on the final day of November. Despite playing without starting guards D’Angelo Russell and Nick Young, (both injured), the Lakers impro
After a solid start to the 2016-17 NBA season, the Los Angeles Lakers haven’t just cooled off. They’ve frozen. Losers of seven straight, the 10-17 Lakers and 36-year-old head coach Luke Walton will enter Wednesday night’s winnable contest with the B
LOS ANGELES — When the Los Angeles Lakers first convened for training camp in late September, center Timofey Mozgov came in with a clear goal (and question) for the team. “I think we have to go into the playoffs, or why are we playing?” aske
It seems like a long time ago that the Golden State Warriors blew away the young Los Angeles Lakers in back-to-back games. Reality check—it was just last week. Want a bigger reality check? The Lakers took to the court Sunday night and completed a se
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Lakers stunned the Golden State Warriors in early November with a 117-97 victory. The Warriors exacted revenge in a pair of games sandwiching the Thanksgiving holiday, demolishing the Lakers 149-106 on Wednesday in Oakland
The Los Angeles Lakers moved back above .500 on Tuesday night as Nick Young buried a long-range three-pointer with five seconds left to stun the Oklahoma City Thunder. The victory moved the Lake Show to 8-7 as L.A. holds down the seventh seed in the Weste
The Los Angeles Lakers don’t start their 2016-17 season until Oct. 26, but there is plenty of news circulating around one of the NBA’s marquee franchises. The 16-time champions have a new coach in Luke Walton, and he is finalizing his overall roster a
