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Following the hilarious video he posted while issuing a challenge to LaVar Ball, Shaquille O’Neal once again took to his Instagram account to show off his dance moves, and take a shot at the CEO of Big Baller Brand. In his latest video, O’Neal’s all-white outfit highlighted his silver light-up shoes as he busted his moves on the […]

The Los Angeles Lakers have once again ramped up their efforts in free agency, this time targeting a veteran point guard. According to Mark Medina of the LA Daily News, the Lakers on Thursday afternoon held a meeting with former Golden State Warriors point guard Ian Clark. I'm told the Lakers also met with free-agent […]

With the success he’s had in the Summer League, Kyle Kuzma’s popularity has risen, and he is now one of the players the Los Angeles Lakers fans are most looking forward to seeing represent the Purple and Gold next season. After being named the Summer League championship game MVP, Nike did not waste time in […]

The first few weeks of free agency have passed, and the Los Angeles Lakers have remained one of the quietest teams in the league. The Lakers’ only move was inking former Detroit Pistons guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope to a one-year, $18 million deal. However, Mark Medina of the Orange County Register is reporting that the front office […]

Following reports that the Cleveland Cavaliers had engaged in serious talks to land the former league MVP Derrick Rose on a one-year deal, things have taken a more complex turn of events. Both the Los Angeles Lakers and Chicago Bulls have now entered the picture as possible landing spots as they are set to meet […]

Following a Las Vegas Summer League championship effort, a Los Angeles Lakers fan was feeling himself a little too much, tweeting out that the Portland Trail Blazers — who lost in the championship game 110-98 — would never be on his team’s level. https://twitter.com/808Astro/status/887907797186224128 But the hapless fan apparently had no clue of the Blazers […]

The Los Angeles Lakers will make their best pitch to free agent point guard Derrick Rose during their meeting today in hopes to lure him away from signing with the Cleveland Cavaliers, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The Cavs held “serious talks” with Rose, as reported earlier today, but can only be signed to a […]

Since the Los Angeles Lakers selected Lonzo Ball with the second overall pick in this year’s draft, team president Magic Johnson has done nothing but voice his praise toward him. Johnson took that to another level on Tuesday afternoon as he stated that the 19-year-old shares the same level of basketball IQ as him, according […]

The Los Angeles Lakers may already have a vastly-improved roster for the coming season, but what many do not know was that they were planning something else bigger earlier in the summer, which could pay dividends for them next year. With a need for a veteran shooting guard, Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN reported recently that […]

The Los Angeles Lakers aren’t just the 2017 Las Vegas Summer League kings. They’re also TV ratings royalty. Sports broadcasting giant ESPN has released its TV viewership records — as gathered by Nielsen — for the Summer League, which improved by 112 percent compared to last year’s numbers. From only 369,000 pair of eyeballs in 2016, […]

The 2017 NBA Summer League offers everyone the first glimpse into the early development of young and unknown players. Rookies, second-year players, G-League standouts, free agent hopefuls, and rising coaches are all trying to make a name for themselves in Las Vegas. This year was no different as prominent NBA executives, players, former players, scouts, agents, and […]

Former Los Angeles Lakers guard and New York Knicks head coach Derek Fisher was once again part of the headlines last month, when he and his girlfriend were involved in a vehicular accident in an L.A. freeway. He received two charges of DUI, and was set to appear in court for trial. The 42-year-old was not present […]

As reported by Laker Nation’s Serena Winters, the July 8th Summer League matchup between the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics was the most-watched Summer League game ever, with roughly 1.1 million views on ESPN. The Lakers also played in six of the seven most viewed games on ESPN in Summer League history: ESPN sent […]

The Los Angeles Lakers brawn, comprised of president Magic Johnson and general manager Rob Pelinka, have done everything possible to make the team attractive to Cleveland Cavaliers star forward LeBron James, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski said on Wednesday’s episode of The Jump with Rachel Nichols. “From the day they got the job, they started to do […]

Newly-crowned NBA champion Kevin Durant empathized with recently crowned Las Vegas Summer League Championship Game MVP Kyle Kuzma after his championship celebration. Kuzma earned the honors after posting a 30-point, 10-rebound double-double in the Lakers’ 110-98 win over the Portland Trail Blazers — adding to the hype of the youth-infused purple-and-gold. Durant quoted his post-celebratory […]

The Los Angeles Lakers have had a busy summer. Their roster is going to look wildly different next season. First, they traded away their former second pick in the 2015 NBA Draft, D’Angelo Russell, to the Brooklyn Nets. The Nets sent center Brook Lopez and the 27th selection in the 2017 NBA Draft to the […]

As the Los Angeles Lakers‘ president of basketball operations, Magic Johnson is doing everything in his power to bring his beloved Lakers back to relevance. Johnson, one of only five NBA players in history to have accumulated over 10,000 assists, knows an outstanding floor general when he sees one. And with Los Angeles selecting UCLA point […]

Despite being only 19 years old, there’s already a lot of pressure on the young shoulders of Lonzo Ball. He was a highly touted rookie out of UCLA and was selected second overall in last month’s draft by one of the league’s most storied franchises, the Los Angeles Lakers. Instead of lowering the expectations on […]

The deal that sent D’Angelo Russell to the Brooklyn Nets is widely considered as one of the more surprising trades that happened this summer. He was initially thought of as an important piece of the Los Angeles Lakers for years to come. When asked if he had a hard time parting ways with the young guard, […]

The Los Angeles Lakers took a huge blow recently, as this year’s second overall pick and Summer League MVP, Lonzo Ball, suffered a calf injury that forced him to miss the championship game on Monday. The team immediately had x-rays and an MRI done on him to find out its extent and also to check if there […]

The Los Angeles Lakers have had a very solid offseason so far, with the addition of Brook Lopez, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Lonzo Ball and Kyle Kuzma. But they are still looking to add another piece to address their needs in the backcourt, and will try to sign a veteran point guard soon. The team’s president of […]

Brandon Ingram made more than just a great impression during his first Las Vegas Summer League game with the Los Angeles Lakers, dropping 26 points to lead his team in a 96-93 opening loss against the L.A. Clippers. He was also an incredibly supportive teammate despite that being his only game on the court. The […]

Entering this summer’s free agency, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope was expected to generate a lot of interest from teams around the league before the Detroit Pistons matched any offer given to him as he was a restricted free agent. However, despite many interested teams, no large long-term offer was extended to him, and became an unrestricted free […]

Nick Young was utterly complimentary of his former coach Luke Walton for turning a complicated situation in Los Angeles into a workable one at the start of the 2016-17 season. The Los Angeles Lakers‘ locker room was filled with immaturity — the biggest stamp of it being D’Angelo Russell‘s blunder with Young’s former girlfriend, Iggy […]

Earlier this offseason, Nick Young signed with the Golden State Warriors on a one-year, $5.2 million deal, shutting the door on a return to the Los Angeles Lakers next season. However, Young recently told Mark Medina of the LA Daily News that he could one day return to Los Angeles before he retires. “I love […]

After winning MVP for the 2017 NBA Summer League due to his outstanding play, Los Angeles Lakers rookie point guard Lonzo Ball has been the talk of NBA Twitterverse: Lonzo Ball named NBA Summer League MVP in Las Vegas. 16.3 points9.3 assists7.7 rebounds pic.twitter.com/asSJywCxsA — Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) July 18, 2017 Showtime is back, baby: […]

Lonzo Ball has made a strong start to his professional career with a number of solid performances in the recently concluded Las Vegas Summer League. He recorded two-triple doubles and was named the MVP of the tournament to the delight of the Los Angeles Lakers fans. However, team president Magic Johnson understands that the level […]

On Monday Night, the Los Angeles Lakers won the 2017 Las Vegas Summer League championship by upending the Portland Trail Blazers. Despite rookie point guard Lonzo Ball not being able to play in the title game due to a mild calf strain, the 19-year-old did set a Summer League record, according to ESPN. Lonzo Ball’s […]

The Los Angeles Lakers capped off a strong showing at the Las Vegas Summer League on Monday by topping the Portland Trail Blazers in the championship game. This immediately created optimism surrounding the Lakers, with team president Magic Johnson going as far as stating that the franchise is back. Hear from the @Lakers with @CassidyHubbarth […]

In the waning moment of the Los Angeles Lakers winning the 2017 Las Vegas Summer League championship, All-Star forward Paul George once again stirred the rumor mill pot. George made the decision to tweet out a subtle message that many have interpreted as being directed toward the Lakers. God is good 🙏🏾 — Paul George […]

Even before the start of the summer league games, one of the most anticipated matchups was between the Los Angeles Lakers and Sacramento Kings, which would feature highly touted rookies Lonzo Ball and De’Aaron Fox. The two met twice during their NCAA careers, and the fifth overall pick in last month’s draft had better individual […]

It’s been 15 years since the Sacramento Kings and the Los Angeles Lakers faced off in their wild seven-game Western Conference Finals series for the ages, but the bad blood between these two Pacific Division rivals is still very much present up until this day. On Monday, the Kings shared a video on their official […]

Much of the talk about the Los Angeles Lakers this offseason has revolved around the apparent local savior of the franchise in Lonzo Ball. Even leading up to the conclusion of the Summer League campaign, Ball’s groin injury was the talk of the town that many perceived would inevitably lead to the Lakers’ demise in the championship game against the […]

The Los Angeles Lakers have a ton of celebrities for fans, and most of them are just as critical and passionate about their team as the real die-hard fans from the City of Angels. Members of the enduring rock band the Red Hot Chili Peppers are just several of those true and famous Lakers fans often seen courtside back […]

The people in charge of the Portland Trail Blazers‘ Twitter account just made a subtle shot at Lonzo Ball, before the start of their team’s Summer League finale against the Los Angeles Lakers. After deciding to wear other players’ signature shoes and not his own, the Blazers’ social media team made an “update” on what Jake […]

For someone who looks like Drake, you could say that Lonzo Ball went from zero to a hundred. After starting the Summer League on a bad note, scoring just five points on an embarrassing 2-for-15 shooting from the field in a loss to the L.A. Clippers, the ex-UCLA Bruin quickly turned it around, helping the […]

New York Knicks‘ new signing Tim Hardaway Jr. knows what it’s like to have a father on his ear while being on the spotlight of the biggest basketball league in the world. With recent headlines being dominated by rookie Lonzo Ball and his often-outspoken father LaVar, the four-year veteran offered some advice to both father […]

The Los Angeles Lakers are set to take the court on Monday night for the Las Vegas Summer League Final against the Portland Trail Blazers. However, the Lakers have ruled out rookie point guard Lonzo Ball from the game due to a mild calf strain that he suffered in the semifinal game against the Dallas […]

Prior to the 2017 NBA Draft last month, the Brooklyn Nets pulled the trigger on a trade that sent veteran big man Brook Lopez to the Los Angeles Lakers in exchange for guard D’Angelo Russell and center Timofey Mozgov. It was a deal that caught many off-guard given that Lopez had spent his first nine […]