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According to ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith, Kobe Bryant hasn’t been showing up to Los Angeles Lakers practices as Lance Stephenson has claimed. Stephenson recently told TMZ Bryant is “always” at the team’s practices. Smith, however, says he spoke to Bryant himself and the Lakers legend refuted Stephenson’s claim. “I spoke to him yesterday,” Smith said […]

The Los Angeles Lakers are reportedly hiring Lionel Hollins as an assistant coach, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN. Hollins will join Jason Kidd on head coach Frank Vogel’s staff. The Lakers are hiring Lionel Hollins as an assistant coach, league sources tell ESPN. Hollins is the all-time winningest coach in Memphis and also led […]

LaVar Ball’s time in the spotlight has come to a close, but that didn’t stop FOX Sports’ Undisputed from bringing the father of Los Angeles Lakers guard Lonzo Ball on Tuesday’s episode of the show. Discussing rumors that Kyrie Irving may consider signing with the Lakers this summer, Ball, who evidently has no inside knowledge of […]

The Los Angeles Lakers, it’s now more clear than ever, made bringing in Jason Kidd one of their highest priorities of the offseason. According to Shams Charania of The Athletic, the Lakers coaxed Kidd into taking the team’s lead assistant job by making him the league’s highest-paid assistant coach. Jason Kidd’s contract with the Lakers […]

Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James recently came face-to-face with a real-life Goliath on the basketball court. Luckily, the cameras were able to capture this moment including LeBron’s priceless reaction to the 15-year-old (!) giant. 15 years & he's already a giant. Lebron James like dwarf beside him 🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/xzi6Yuoake — POOJA!!! (@PoojaMedia) June 3, […]

With so many activities going on in his life, Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant has definitely been keeping himself busy in retirement. However, despite his hectic schedule, the five-time NBA champ still finds time to connect with his former team, as he continues to make an effort to support the Lakers in any way […]

ESPN analyst Richard Jefferson isn’t one of the few expecting a partnership between LeBron James and Kyrie Irving taking place again, this time as members of the Los Angeles Lakers. Irving has been rumored to have interest in joining the Lakers as a free agent, but Jefferson, who played with both as a member of […]

The Los Angeles Lakers were on the receiving end of a bit of luck in the NBA Draft Lottery and ended up landing the No. 4 overall pick. However, the Lakers may not end up keeping the selection. According to Jonathan Givony of ESPN, the Lakers are “active in trade talks” regarding the fourth overall […]

The Los Angeles Lakers are expected to be one of the major players in this year’s free-agency market. The pressure to build a championship team around LeBron James is at an all-time high, and they are expected to bring at least one superstar to provide the four-time MVP some help. Over the past couple of […]

Texas Tech guard Jarrett Culver believes he can help the Los Angeles Lakers with his ‘elite’ skills. However, more than that, he thinks he will thrive playing alongside superstar forward LeBron James. The Lakers have the fourth overall pick in this year’s draft, and one of the prospects that they are closely looking at is […]

Like all Los Angeles Lakers fans, swingman Josh Hart would love for the team to bring in a few more superstars to join LeBron James to start next season. The Lakers have had their eye on Anthony Davis since the trade deadline, but Hart went a different route. On The Eavesdrop Podcast, Hart said that […]

The Los Angeles Lakers notably parted ways with Luke Walton after the 2018-19 season and hired Frank Vogel as his replacement. With Vogel now leading the way in Los Angeles, the Lakers are once again attempting to head in a positive direction — something that apparently never interested former Chicago Bulls and Minnesota Timberwolves head […]

The Los Angeles Lakers haven’t won a championship in almost a decade, but the last time they did, it wasn’t a superstar like Kobe Bryant or an All-Star like Pau Gasol or a proven clutch shooter like Derek Fisher that helped seal the win. It was Ron Artest, now known as Metta World Peace. The […]

Los Angeles Lakers superstar small forward LeBron James says he has to have a candle in his hotel room during road trips. James says he loves the smell of candles and that it makes him feel comfortable away from home. “I have to light a candle in my room on every road trip while I’m […]

Los Angeles Lakers point guard Lonzo Ball is just like the rest of us shoe fanatics. He wants Lakers star small forward LeBron James to hook him up with some Nike’s. After all, the two are teammates and James is Nike’s biggest athlete. Ball took to his Instagram story on Monday to ask LeBron for […]

Jimmy Butler is undoubtedly enjoying his offseason ahead of his free agency — so much so that he is even teasing (or trolling) fans about where he could possibly go. This time, the four-time All-Star posted an Instagram story where he could be seen rocking a Nike Air Force 1 with the purple and gold […]

Los Angeles Lakers guard Josh Hart had an anti-analytics rant in a recent episode of Gilbert Arenas’ “No Chill Podcast,” which was highlighted by the sentence “You telling me that this dude that’s 45 that never played, doesn’t have an athletic bone in his body, gonna tell me how to play basketball?” On paper, this […]

After the Los Angeles Lakers’ terrible season, rumors have spread throughout the league that the team is ready to trade point guard Lonzo Ball. A Lakers News Twitter account posted an update about offers the team had received for Ball: The #Bulls and #Suns are reportedly offering their 2019 lottery picks in the June draft […]

The Los Angeles Lakers and New York Knicks seem to have some interest in Texas Tech guard Jarret Culver, a projected top-10 pick in the NBA Draft. Per Newsday’s Steve Popper, Culver worked out for the Lakers and has another workout scheduled for the Knicks: Texas Tech's Jarrett Culver will work out for the Knicks […]

For all of the calamity that has surrounded the Los Angeles Lakers throughout the 2018-19 NBA season and heading into this summer, they are still in a somewhat ideal position as a franchise. The Lakers have a full year with LeBron James. They have a core of promising young players headlined by Brandon Ingram, Kyle […]

Former Los Angeles Lakers forward Lamar Odom recently released an autobiography that details all the ups and downs of his rather colorful life. Surely, it will be filled with stories depicting his darkest days, especially during his bouts with drug addiction. However, one of the more inspiring parts of the memoir will be Odom’s testimony […]

Los Angeles Lakers rising star Kyle Kuzma has identified a specific area in his game that he wants to put a ton of work in for this summer. With the recent revelation that the 23-year-old has been working out with renowned shooting coach, “Lethal Shooter,” it looks like Kuzma will be looking to significantly improve […]

The Chicago Bulls and Phoenix Suns are reportedly offering their 2019 lottery picks in the June draft for Los Angeles Lakers point guard Lonzo Ball, according to Jason McIntyre of FS1. The Suns have the sixth overall pick, while the Bulls have the seventh. The Lakers own the fourth overall pick. McIntyre reports Suns owner […]

Jarrett Culver certainly doesn’t lack for confidence. After his pre-draft workout with the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday, the Texas Tech guard succinctly stated what the team that ultimately drafts him will be getting. “I’m a two-way player, an elite two-way player,” Culver said, per Lakers reporter Joey Ramirez. “I can score and I can […]

During the Anthony Davis trade saga, Los Angeles Lakers guard Josh Hart felt like LeBron James and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope were the only untouchable players on the roster. The Lakers aggressively tried to acquire Davis at the February trade deadline and basically made their entire roster available to the New Orleans Pelicans except for James and […]

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James won a title…well, sort of. LeBron, who bought a stake from English Premier League club Liverpool back in 2011, celebrated like crazy after the Reds beat the Tottenham Hotspur in the UEFA Champions League (UCL) final in Madrid. For those not familiar with the European Football system, the UCL […]

New Orleans Pelicans head coach Alvin Gentry reportedly loves the idea of having a Lonzo Ball-Jrue Holiday backcourt in the Big Easy, according to Andrew Lopez of NOLA.com. The Los Angeles Lakers will try and trade for Anthony Davis again this summer after failing to acquire him at the February trade deadline. The Lakers can […]

Kawhi Leonard and the Toronto Raptors are just three wins away from winning the 2019 NBA Championship. Teams like the L.A. Clippers and Los Angeles Lakers, who hope to be big players in free agency, continue to nervously watch as the Raptors inch ever so close to the franchise’s first title. After their Game 1 […]

When the Los Angeles Lakers jumped above several teams in the 2019 NBA Draft to land the fourth overall selection, many thought that it would be the perfect trade piece to use for the team to acquire Anthony Davis. However, the team may keep the pick. With that in mind, the Lakers have begun working […]

Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James sent out some love for the WNBA on Friday, as he took to Twitter to share to the world how he was tuned in to the mathcup between the Las Vegas Aces and the Phoenix Mercury. LeBron showing some love to the @WNBA 👏 (via @KingJames) pic.twitter.com/i3JoSNBgpC — ESPN […]

The 2019 NBA Playoffs have been a roller coaster through the first rounds and game 1 of the Finals. It’s looking like there will little doubt that the upcoming NBA offseason will be a wild one, as well. A truckload of big-name free agents have the potential to change the landscape of the NBA. Some […]

Kobe Bryant and Metta World Peace won an NBA championship together with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2010. It was truly a special moment for two teammates who had mutual respect with each other. But before they ever got together on the Lakers, World Peace, then known as Ron Artest, and Bryant were very fierce […]

The Houston Rockets could reportedly move veteran point guard Chris Paul this summer in their desire to improve their roster, and according to latest speculations, there are a numbers of teams that could be their trade partner. While no team has officially made it known that they intend to pursue CP3, Sean Deveney of Sporting […]

The basketball world turned on LeBron James nine years ago when he spurned his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers in free agency to team up with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh on the Miami Heat. The beloved phenom clearly on his way to becoming one of the greatest players of all time suddenly became the league’s preeminent […]

Nick Young took to Twitter to air out a little bit of his frustration following Game 1 of the NBA Finals between the Golden State Warriors and Toronto Raptors. Young acknowledged how impressive Raptors star Kawhi Leonard has been throughout Toronto’s run, but could not help but remind everyone about the type of impact Los […]

So much for the bright lights of the NBA Finals proving too much for the Toronto Raptors. Playing in their first championship series in franchise history, the Raptors beat the Golden State Warriors 118-109 on Thursday night, putting the defending champions in their first ever 1-0 hole with the Larry O’Brien Trophy on the line. […]

JaVale McGee quietly enjoyed arguably the best season of his career in 2018-19. Entrenched as a starter for the first time since 2011-12, McGee rewarded the Los Angeles Lakers’ confidence by averaging 12.0 points, 7.5 rebounds, and 2.0 blocks per game while shooting a personal-best 64.9 percent from the field. On a per-minute basis, he […]

The 2019 NBA Finals start on Thursday in Toronto, but before we get into that, here is a look at some “under the radar” Finals stats and facts, that I’m sure some of you never knew. Hopefully, players participating this year will break few. Player-related records: 1: Only one, from a total of 68 performances […]

Would Cameron Reddish make sense for the Los Angeles Lakers? Perhaps no non-playoff team has been as newsworthy as the Lakers in the past couple of months. A whirlwind finish to the season included former team president and Laker legend Magic Johnson stepping down from his position as well as purging Luke Walton and his […]