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Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James decided to participate in his first Instagram Live video, in which he addressed a fair amount of questions from the fans. Like most of us, LeBron was also looking for something productive to do during the extended season shutdown. As it turns out, James himself has also turned to […]

Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James recently went on Instagram Live to do an impromptu Q&A in the midst of the current NBA hiatus. Interestingly, one of the things he talked about was the epic Eastern Conference Finals between his Miami Heat and the Boston Celtics back in 2012. After taking a 2-0 series lead, […]

Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James talked to his Instagram followers on Thursday night, tackling imaginary scenarios to the reality of a quarantine period to flatten the curve in this hiatus of the 2019-20 NBA season due to the coronavirus outbreak. Asked if he’s enjoying what’s now been a week-long break from the action, the […]

Two Los Angeles Lakers players have tested positive for COVID-19. The team announced the news in a statement on Thursday evening. According to Dave McMenamin and Ohm Youngmisuk of ESPN, 14 Lakers players were tested for COVID-19: Fourteen players out of the Lakers’ 17-man roster (including two-way contracts) were tested, league sources told ESPN’s Ramona […]

JaVale McGee is not one of the two Los Angeles Lakers players that tested positive for coronavirus, league sources confirmed on Thursday. The seven-foot center has experienced asthma attacks and even dealt with pneumonia last season, prompting pundits to suggest that he might have tested positive for COVID-19. Sources confirmed to Yahoo Sports’ Chris Baynes […]

The Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James agrees with the “stay at home” order in Los Angeles. As residents in Los Angeles County are ordered to stay at home, the veteran forward is clearly in agreement. Local citizens are obviously permitted to shop for essentials such as food. However, L.A. county officials have ordered citizens to […]

Two players on the Los Angeles Lakers have tested positive for COVID-19, the team said Thursday in a statement. The names of the players were not made public in the statement. Lakers statement pic.twitter.com/vBE4BDvWKc — Marc J. Spears (@MarcJSpears) March 19, 2020   After four players on the Brooklyn Nets tested positive for the coronavirus, […]

Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart announced he has tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus, while other members of the Celtics organization are awaiting test results, according to Jay King of The Athletic. The Celtics are still waiting on some tests, according to sources. There’s still a possibility Marcus Smart isn’t the only person in the […]

Two Los Angeles Lakers players have tested positive for COVID-19 coronavirus. Two Lakers players have tested positive for coronavirus, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium. The team may test the remaining players who did not take tests Wednesday morning. — Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) March 19, 2020 According to ESPN’s Dave McMenamin, Lakers players (not staff) were tested […]

Boston Celtics icon Paul Pierce could have captured his second NBA title in 2010, but the Celtics lost to Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 7 at Staples Center. On the latest episode of the All The Smoke Podcast hosted by former NBA forwards Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson, Pierce said he still hasn’t watched […]

On the latest episode of the All The Smoke Podcast hosted by former NBA forwards Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson, Boston Celtics legend Paul Pierce talked about his relationship with the late Los Angeles Lakers icon Kobe Bryant. Pierce says he and Bryant “had a different type of relationship.” “I played mad against everybody, but […]

Los Angeles Lakers veteran small forward Jared Dudley answered a few questions on Twitter after the NBA shut down its practice facilities on Thursday because of the coronavirus pandemic. Now that facilities are closed, players are going to have to stay in basketball shape by working out at home. Dudley says NBA owners want the […]

An old video clip of the great Michael Jordan taking on a bunch of young players more than a decade ago has recently been making its rounds on social media. Los Angeles Lakers veteran swingman Jared Dudley came across the clip, and decided to share his own version of the story. According to Dudley, not […]

Los Angeles Lakers forward Kyle Kuzma is looking to give back to his hometown of Flint, Michigan as citizens face certain needs due to the coronavirus pandemic. Bill Oram of The Athletic reported the Lakers backup is partnering with the local YMCA on a six-week program that will provide dinner and a snack each an […]

The struggle is real for Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James as he processes being quarantined in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. LeBron took to Instagram on Wednesday to give a glimpse at life in the James household, briefly showing his wife Savannah using a pair of scissors to cut his own hair while […]

Miami Heat rookie Tyler Herro isn’t letting social distancing stop him from shooting his shot. On Tuesday, Herro hit up Instagram model and fitness influencer Katya Elise Henry with a simple message: @katyaelisehenry wyd — Tyler Herro (@raf_tyler) March 18, 2020 Henry, who has amassed over seven million followers on Instagram and is also Kyle […]

As part of a recent appearance on “Take It There” with Taylor Rooks, Lakers swingman Danny Green made it clear that he loves the dynamic that has developed between his superstar teammates, LeBron James and Anthony Davis. James joined the Lakers prior to the start of last season. However, a groin injury forced him to […]

Danny Green and Dwight Howard recently joined Taylor Rooks for a wide-ranging interview at a zoo for reptiles (that’s right). During their discussion, the two teammates were asked to pick an all-time Lakers starting lineup. Picking an all-time starting five for the Lakers is a tall order, as the team has had so many great […]

The vast majority of the Los Angeles Lakers roster has already been tested for the novel coronavirus, according to Brad Turner of the Los Angeles Times. Payers went in for testing at 9 a.m. as doctors administered a swab test that will determine either a negative or positive result within a few hours. The Lakers […]

As part of a recent appearance on Take it there with Taylor Rooks, Danny Green and Dwight Howard explained why their Lakers teammate, Alex Caruso, has gained so much popularity. Caruso may look like an ordinary guy, but the Lakers shooting guard has become an internet sensation this season. On several occasions, The White Mamba, […]

Los Angeles Lakers forward Danny Green dished out a few of his secrets in an interview with Bleacher Report’s Taylor Rooks, including how to stop Kawhi Leonard. Green, who had played with Leonard for the past eight seasons, also followed him through his trade to the Toronto Raptors in a bundled deal for DeMar DeRozan […]

Several teams were interested in Danny Green’s services this offseason, including the Dallas Mavericks. Ultimately, though, the two-time NBA champion decided to sign with the Los Angeles Lakers. As part of a recent appearance on “Take it There” with Taylor Rooks, Green explained his reasoning behind this decision: “Dallas was very interested, the Lakers were […]

As part of a recent appearance on “Take It There” with Taylor Rooks, Danny Green compared his Lakers teammate, LeBron James, to an iguana. As part of his appearance on the show, Green and Rooks paid a visit to a reptilian zoo. In the midst of the snakes and lizards at the facility, the Lakers […]

LeBron James took on the trend of most NBA players using their quarantine time to relive their own glory days in high school. The Los Angeles Lakers star has now spent a full week without basketball since the outbreak of the coronavirus put a halt into the 2019-20 season. Much like Stephen Curry of the […]

Four Brooklyn Nets players including Kevin Durant have tested positive for COVID-19. To recall, the NBA club visited Staples Center on March 10 to duel with the Los Angeles Lakers. The following day, the NHL’s Ottawa Senators visited the Los Angeles Kings for a hockey duel. Now, it is revealed that a player from Senators […]

Four Brooklyn Nets players including Kevin Durant have tested positive for the novel coronavirus. In light of this, the Los Angeles Lakers, whom the Nets faced on March 10, are following the necessary precautions per the advice of medical experts. In a statement, the Lakers are now in contact with all their players and basketball […]

After four members of the Brooklyn Nets, including injured All-Star forward Kevin Durant, were revealed to have tested positive for COVID-19 (coronavirus) on Tuesday, the entire Los Angeles Lakers roster plans to self-quarantine for the next two weeks, per the Los Angeles Times’ Brad Turner. Sources: Lakers just had conference call with players and will […]

Los Angeles Lakers forward Kyle Kuzma appeared to call hand sanitizers a scam in his Instagram story on Tuesday. “Now y’all finally finding out companies been taking money from us for years this [three poop emojis] don’t work!!!” Kuzma wrote over a photo of a Purell bottle. https://twitter.com/TheNBACentral/status/1239695054731608066 Obviously, hand sanitizer is becoming an increasingly […]

Joel Embiid wanted to get drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2014 NBA Draft and play with Kobe Bryant, per Yaron Weitzman of Bleacher Report. Embiid was hoping to fall to the seventh pick, but it didn’t happen, as JoJo went third to the Philadelphia 76ers after Andrew Wiggins and Jabari Parker: The […]

It is without question that Adam Silver made the right call when he decided to suspend the NBA season due to the coronavirus pandemic. Nonetheless, it’s also hard to deny that this could not have come at a worse time for the Los Angeles Lakers, who went into the hiatus with a Western Conference-best 49-14 […]

Oregon Ducks star Sabrina Ionescu won’t be drawing comparisons to Kobe Bryant anytime soon. Her game is smooth, fluid, and stylistically different than the ruthless scoring clinics the late Los Angeles Lakers star used to administer on a nightly basis. Yet Bryant has stayed “close” to Ionescu, even well after his death on Jan. 26 […]

Los Angeles Lakers veteran Jared Dudley was one of the first players who raised the possibility of having the 2020-21 season pushed back to December.  On Twitter, Dudley doubled-down on this idea in response to a tweet that laid out the advantages of having the NBA calendar run from Christmas to August. Frank Madden of […]

Mychal Thompson, father of Golden State Warriors star guard Klay Thompson, believes the Los Angeles Lakers should be champions if the 2019-20 season is canceled altogether because of the coronavirus pandemic. Mychal played and won two rings with the Lakers back in the day. He also does radio for them now. Hmmm…So…IF the season duznt […]

Los Angeles Lakers players have reportedly been instructed to only work out at either the practice facility or their home gym for safety reasons, per Dave McMenamin of ESPN. Lakers players are also expected to check in with the team daily. On the Lakers’ team conference call today to discuss protocol during the coronavirus spread, […]

The Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets were supposed to face off on Sunday in what could have been a Western Conference Finals preview for NBA fans. However, because of the coronavirus pandemic, the NBA was forced to suspend play last Wednesday after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the virus. Jazz star […]

After an incredible run for the Los Angeles Lakers during the 2019-20 NBA campaign, the season has been put on hold with no telling when the league may get back underway. The season could simply get canceled or resume at some point during the summer. With the Lakers now in a holding pattern with the […]

With concerns surrounding the coronavirus pandemic continuing to grow, the NBA has decided to suspend the 2019-20 regular season until health officials deem it safe enough to resume play. For now, there is hope that this campaign will pick up at a later date, but that is not a foregone conclusion. In this piece, we’ll […]

As part of a recent interview with The Athletic’s Omari Sankofa II, former Memphis Grizzlies guard Tony Allen lamented the fact that he didn’t get to spend as much time as he would’ve liked with Lakers legend Kobe Bryant. Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash just outside Los Angeles on Jan. 26. Sadly, all […]

Los Angeles Lakers owner Jeanie Buss took a quick stroll down memory lane, and she made sure to take us all along for the ride. The 58-year-old recently came across a Los Angeles Times article about her childhood home being listed on the market, and Buss could not help but relive one of the most […]