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The Los Angeles Lakers (2-8) face the Los Angeles Clippers (6-5) on Wednesday. Tipoff is scheduled for 10 pm ET. Below we continue our NBA odds series with Lakers-Clippers prediction and pick. The Lakers have had a rough start to the season and have lost three consecutive games. The Lakers have covered just two of […]

The expectations for the Minnesota Timberwolves entering the 2022-23 season were heightened exponentially after they swung a blockbuster trade for Rudy Gobert this past offseason. Instead, they have crawled out to a slow start, and have been one of the most disappointing teams to start the year. Many players are struggling, but D’Angelo Russell may […]

While the Los Angeles Lakers have been heavily linked with Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving and Indiana Pacers duo Myles Turner and Buddy Hield in the past, it doesn’t look like they are going to trade for any of them. There have been plenty of calls for Rob Pelinka and co. to make some changes […]

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, who played alongside LeBron James with the Los Angeles Lakers from 2018 to 2021, admitted he sometimes finds it hard to watch the Purple and Gold play this 2022-23 season. The Lakers have struggled in their first 10 games of the season. After a 0-5 start, they won back-to-back games against the Denver […]

LAFC bagged the MLS Cup title in tremendous fashion on Saturday after some last-minute heroics courtesy of star forward Gareth Bale. Los Angeles Lakers icon Magic Johnson joined the hordes of LAFC fans that celebrated the epic title win. For Johnson, this turned out to be the fourth championship he’s won in four different professional […]

Right now, LeBron James still needs 1,106 points before he is able to surpass the all-time scoring record of Los Angeles Lakers icon Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. At this point, it feels like it is only inevitable that King James is going to be the all-time scoring leader in the history of the NBA sooner or later. […]

The Los Angeles Lakers are having a really tough start to the season. Following an embarrassing blowout loss to the Utah Jazz, the Lakers are now 2-7. At the start of the season, it was all but known that they wanted to trade embattled point guard Russell Westbrook. But he has actually been a positive […]

It is no secret that the Los Angeles Lakers are struggling this season. But a recent statistic provided by FanSided displays just how troublesome the Lakers’ shooting woes have been so far in 2022-2023. According to Fansided, the Lakers have the lowest catch-and-shoot percentage of any team since catch-and-shoot data became available in 2013. This […]

Election day arrived and LeBron James wanted to make sure his voice was heard ahead of people going to the voting booths. The Los Angeles Lakers star tweeted yesterday a video of him endorsing Georgia’s Democratic candidate for Governor Stacey Abrams. “Georgia, waddup!” James started. “LeBron James here. “I just want to say that obviously […]

There might not be a team in the NBA with a bleaker long-term outlook than the Los Angeles Lakers, especially after their disappointing 2-8 start to begin the 2022-23 campaign. They shipped off a plethora of first-round picks to put Anthony Davis beside LeBron James and it worked, as the Lakers won a championship in […]

The LeBron James-less Los Angeles Lakers dropped to 2-8 on the season Monday night as they lost 139-116 to the surprising Utah Jazz. It was the second time in 2022-23 the Jazz have already beaten the Lakers. Following the defeat, head coach Darvin Ham spoke on three areas his team must improve moving forward. Via […]

The Los Angeles Lakers entered the past weekend with renewed hopes after back-to-back victories against playoff contenders Denver Nuggets and New Orleans Pelicans. However, harsh reality hit the Lakers hard as they have now lost three straight games to fall to 2-8, the second-worst record in the entire NBA (only the Orlando Magic and Houston […]

The Los Angeles Lakers’ season-opening struggles continued in their latest loss to the Utah Jazz, as the Jazz blew out the Lakers by a score of 139-116. The Lakers received a strong outing from Anthony Davis with LeBron James forced to miss the action, but Davis came away from the game unhappy at the fact […]

Matt Ryan has been one of the feel-good narratives surrounding the Los Angeles Lakers amid their disastrous start to the new season. In case you didn’t know, this man was trying to make ends meet as a cemetery worker and a food delivery driver before he got his shot with the Lakers. It’s been quite […]

To say that the Los Angeles Lakers have struggled to start the new season would be a complete understatement at this point. This team has won just two out of the nine games it’s played this year, and their 2-7 record represents one of the worst in the entire NBA. All this is despite the […]

The Los Angeles Lakers play the Utah Jazz for the second time in four days, but this time they’ll be playing on the road where they haven’t had much success and against a team that is off to a hot start. With that said, we continue our NBA Odds series and make our Lakers-Jazz prediction […]

LeBron James has been dealing with lingering foot soreness and a non-COVID illness for over a week now. Despite the ailments, the 37-year-old has not missed a game for the 2-6 Los Angeles Lakers, though he hasn’t quite looked like himself on the court. James is averaging 24.3 points, 8.9 rebounds, and 7.1 assists in […]

After two straight wins against the Denver Nuggets and New Orleans Pelicans, the Los Angeles Lakers have proceeded to drop their next two games to drop to 2-7. In their latest loss, a 114-100 defeat at the hands of the scorching Cleveland Cavaliers, the Lakers managed to keep the game close, even leading by six […]

After another heartbreaking loss, the Los Angeles Lakers are seemingly all out of options. The trio of Anthony Davis, LeBron James, and Russell Westbrook have tried different things to make the partnership work. However, every attempt they’ve made to fix this team has ended in failure. After their recent loss, it seems LA might be […]

This is quite easily one of the worst seasons LeBron James has had over his long career. The Los Angeles Lakers star has looked absolutely awful on the floor. There have been many times this season where his play was a big reason for their losses. This isn’t the LeBron that most of us know. […]

The Los Angeles Lakers are off to another disappointing start in their 2022-23 campaign. A 2-7 record for a squad led by LeBron James and Anthony Davis is tough to accept for Lakers fans, but it is the roster construction that must be blamed as the primary reason for their disaster. There are still 73 […]

The Los Angeles Lakers’ season has been one hell of a ride so far this season. The team has looked good in some stretches this season. However, they haven’t found a way to string these good performances into actual wins. Now, they sit at a measly 2-7 record. Because of that, big changes might be […]

With the tragic news of the passing of Takeoff, one of the three members of the hip hop group Migos, there’s been an outpouring of remembrance and support for their work of late. One vocal fan has been Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James. After the Lakers’ latest loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers, King James […]

The Utah Jazz just keep surprising the whole basketball world. While everybody thought that their hot start isn’t going to last, here they are 11 games into the season and still one of the top teams in the Western Conference at 8-3. Even more shocking, they just beat the two LA teams, the Los Angeles […]

Los Angeles Lakers forward Juan Toscano-Anderson has had a difficult path to achieving his dreams of becoming an NBA player. After plying his trade in Mexico, having played there professionally for a few years, JTA got his first break in the NBA fringes when he found a home in the Golden State Warriors’ G-League affiliate […]

After winning two straight games against the Denver Nuggets and New Orleans Pelicans, two teams that made the playoffs last season, LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers had high hopes of turning their season around after a rough 0-5 start. However, the schedule gave the Lakers no breaks, as they proceeded to lose to […]

The Cleveland Cavaliers will travel to Southern California to take on the Los Angeles Lakers at Crypto.com for a Sunday matinee. It’s time to continue our NBA odds series with a Cavaliers-Lakers prediction and pick. The Cavaliers defeated the Detroit Pistons 112-88 on Friday night, routing them on the road. Jarrett Allen led the way with 23 […]

Los Angeles Lakers star Anthony Davis has been dealing with a bad back since the preseason, but it looks like he is on his way to full health. The veteran big man admitted as much when speaking to reporters on Tuesday, noting that his back is improving day by day. With that said, Davis revealed […]

The Los Angeles Lakers had a tremendous opportunity to turn their season around on Friday with a huge win against the Utah Jazz. Unfortunately for them, their effort came up short, and instead of climbing the rankings in the Western Conference, LeBron James and Co. are now staring at a disheartening 2-6 record to start […]

Anthony Davis put up another strong effort on Friday, but unfortunately for LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers, it wasn’t enough for them to defeat the Utah Jazz at the Crypto.com Arena. The red-hot Jazz snapped LA’s brief two-game winning streak with a 130-116 victory over Davis and Co., who have now fallen to […]

LeBron James had to pick up his jaw off the floor as he watched Kevin Durant lead the Brooklyn Nets to a 98-96 win on the road over the Charlotte Hornets. The Los Angeles Lakers forward is known to watch big-time games on off days and he made sure not to miss the Nets’ showdown […]

There’s simply nobody like LeBron James. To see this man do the things he’s doing at 37 years of age and in his 20th season in the NBA is nothing short of marvelous. So much so, that even his own Los Angeles Lakers teammates have been left in awe of King James’ greatness. Just ask […]

The Los Angeles Lakers may be 2-6 on the season, but Anthony Davis firmly believes that they are still a team to be feared with him, LeBron James and Russell Westbrook leading the way. On Tuesday Davis was asked if he believes opponents get up to face the Purple and Gold. After all, they have […]

On Friday, Talen Horton-Tucker returned to his old stomping ground for the first time since his offseason trade to the Utah Jazz. It was an opportunity for the 6-foot-4 guard to face off against his former team, the Los Angeles Lakers, in what was a revenge game of sorts for him. To be clear, however, […]

The Los Angeles Lakers had a real chance to win their third straight game following a horrendous 0-5 start to the season, but instead, they got a massive beating at the hands of the Utah Jazz on Friday. While it’s easy to pin the blame on their 3-point shooting for the loss, LeBron James and […]

Paul Pierce has established a reputation for speaking his mind and not holding back in his post-playing career. And Pierce was back at it in a recent appearance on Kevin Garnett’s KG Certified. He shared his brutally honest take on Kawhi Leonard and Anthony Davis with Garnett. “We don’t hold Kawhi accountable enough because him […]

After the Los Angeles Lakers lost to the Utah Jazz on Friday. the postgame media session was focused on LeBron James. Not his lingering (non-COVID) virus and foot soreness, nor his 17 points, 10 rebounds, and eight assists on 7-of-19 shooting, nor the uncharacteristically subpar effort by his team’s defense, which Anthony Davis and Darvin […]

LeBron James didn’t mince words in addressing the latest controversy surrounding Kyrie Irving after the Los Angeles Lakers’ 130-116 loss to the Utah Jazz on Friday night. The Lakers star was urged to weigh in on Kyrie Irving’s promotion of an antisemitic film on his social media platforms. James was quick to reiterate where he […]

When the Los Angeles Lakers started the season 0-5, a lot of people blamed Russell Westbrook. The explosive guard was used as a scapegoat, with many blaming his poor shooting from deep as the reason for their losses. However, based on the shooting stats so far, LeBron James may just be equally liable or even […]