Lonzo Ball Articles - Page 19

With his team’s back against the proverbial wall, LeBron James seems to be taking a different approach to motivate his teammates. The Los Angeles Lakers superstar told Tania Ganguli of the Los Angeles Times that it’s “unfair” for his team to expect so much out of the young core comprised of Brandon Ingram, Kyle Kuzma, Lonzo […]

The struggling Los Angeles Lakers have been drastically missing Lonzo Ball. Since leaving the Lakers’ Jan. 19 game against the Houston Rockets after suffering an ankle injury, Ball has missed 17 games. During that stretch the Lakers have gone 5-12. There is a little good news for the team, and they can use just about […]

With the Los Angeles Lakers’ chances of making the playoffs pretty slim, a Twitter post by Lonzo Ball from five years ago has somehow resurfaced and is now being re-shared by trolling fans. https://twitter.com/ZO2_/status/395416811157475328 This Tweet from the sophomore guard was back in 2013, the year in which the team started to fall out of […]

Los Angeles Lakers guard Lonzo Ball, who suffered a sprained ankle last January, will be re-evaluated again in a week’s time. Per Shams Charania of The Athletic: Lakers guard Lonzo Ball (sprained ankle) will be re-evaluated again in one week. — Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) March 1, 2019 To recall, Ball suffered a Grade 3 sprained […]

The Los Angeles Lakers are fighting for the last playoff spot in the Western Conference. Their season hasn’t been easy, and on Thursday night they received more bad news. The team will be without Lonzo Ball and Lance Stephenson – two regular contributors for Friday night’s game against the Milwaukee Bucks. Via Ryan Ward of […]

Only 22 games are left in the Los Angeles Lakers schedule, but they are still three games behind the San Antonio Spurs for the eighth and final slot in the 2019 NBA Playoffs. Ahead of them are the Sacramento Kings and they are tied with the Minnesota Timberwolves with a 29-31 record. This was not […]

Los Angeles Lakers point guard Lonzo Ball is scheduled to be re-evaluated on Thursday afternoon, the Lakers revealed Wednesday: Lonzo Ball will be re-evaluated by team doctors on Thursday afternoon, per the Lakers, and an update on his rehabilitation of his left ankle will be provided afterwards. — Dave McMenamin (@mcten) February 27, 2019 Ball […]

The second half of the season has been a long one for the Los Angeles Lakers. Injury has plagued the team’s roster for a good portion of the season. LeBron James sat out for a career-high 17 game stretch from December through most of January. Rajon Rondo spent most of that timeframe off the court, […]

Los Angeles Lakers point guard Lonzo Ball has a bone bruise in his left ankle and it could force him to miss even more time, according to Tania Ganguli of the Los Angeles Times. Ball suffered a Grade 3 left ankle sprain on Jan. 19 against the Houston Rockets. The Lakers said he was going […]

When Los Angeles Lakers point guard Lonzo Ball sprained his ankle last month, he was supposed to be sidelined for four to six weeks. However, here we are, four weeks later, and we still have no idea when Ball is going to return. According to Ryan Ward of ClutchPoints, there is still no timetable for […]

While not many people had the Los Angeles Lakers pegged as title contenders going into this season, I also don’t think there were many (if any at all) who thought they would be below .500 and out of the playoffs at the All-Star break. Nevertheless, that is where the Lakers currently find themselves, as they […]

A couple of members of the Los Angeles Lakers have decided to put the All-Star break to good use by releasing a new musical collaboration that is primed to set the hip-hop scene on fire. Sophomore guard Lonzo Ball and veteran journeyman Lance Stephenson have just dropped a new song entitled “Swerve,” which is primarily […]

The Los Angeles Lakers are well represented in the Rising Stars Game with Kyle Kuzma having himself quite a performance in the All-Star Weekend’s opening main event. Kuzma’s teammate Lonzo Ball, was initially selected to join Team USA, but he suffered an ankle injury that caused him to miss the Rising Stars game. The sophomore […]

Los Angeles Lakers forward Kyle Kuzma will be playing in the Rising Stars Challenge at All-Star Weekend in Charlotte on Friday night and, as a result, he is facing a whole lot of media questioning ahead of the game. But that’s beside the point. After Kuzma answered a question about what it would be like […]

BetOnline.ag has odds on who the head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers will be next season. LaVar Ball currently sits at +50000 as an extremely outside chance. Jason Kidd +300 Tyronn Lue +350 Luke Walton +425 Mark Jackson +500 Brian Shaw +600 Magic Johnson +3300 Phil Jackson +3300 LeBron James +5000 Lavar Ball +50000 […]

Los Angeles Lakes guard Lonzo Ball took yet another L, but this didn’t come from the Philadelphia 76ers or the Atlanta Hawks, but rather on the freestyle floor, losing a rap battle to T-Pain in the popular TNT show Drop The Mic. The Lakers point guard escaped the trade deadline without finding himself in The Big […]

Los Angeles Lakers superstar small forward LeBron James says the team is missing second-year point guard Lonzo Ball on both ends of the floor right now. Ball has been out since Jan. 21 with a Grade 3 left ankle sprain. The Lakers have gone just 3-6 since then. “We have a huge piece still not with […]

The Los Angeles Lakers suffered their second blowout defeat in a span of a week, losing 143-120 to the Philadelphia 76ers tonight. The Lakers allowed the Sixers to score 30-plus points in all four quarters. Philly scored 76 points in the first half, and while Los Angeles was able to hang with them for the […]

When you sign a player of LeBron James’ magnitude, making the playoffs seems like an inevitability. That might not be the case this season for the team in purple and gold. With the NBA trade deadline passing, the playoffs start to become a heavy topic of conversation. The All-Star break comes next weekend before the […]

Micahel Rapaport fashions himself as a basketball expert, and the NBA world seems happy to continue the ruse. The boisterous entertainer is a frequent guest on sports talk shows and podcasts, and the NBA even made him an official part of the All-Star Weekend in New York City in 2015. Does Rapaport actually know anything […]

The Los Angeles Lakers failed to acquire Anthony Davis from the New Orleans Pelicans before the trade deadline. But while this news can be upsetting for the fans, sophomore guard Lonzo Ball seems to be feeling good, knowing that he’s not traded. Lonzo “ain’t going nowhere.” 🎶😂 (via @ZO2_) pic.twitter.com/G9U4MPgRkL — NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) […]

LaVar Ball always has something slick to say, and today, he claimed that LeBron James wouldn’t win a championship if his son Lonzo was traded from the Los Angeles Lakers. "[The Lakers] trade my son they'll never get a championship. … LeBron James without Lonzo is not going to win a championship in L.A. I […]

A few hours before the NBA trade deadline’s buzzer officially sounds, it seems highly likely that the Los Angeles Lakers will not be getting All-Star forward Anthony Davis from the New Orleans Pelicans. The Phoenix Suns were believed to be involved in said trade wherein they would end up with Lonzo Ball, but they now […]

According to several reports, New York Knicks forward Kevin Knox has been selected as Lonzo Ball’s replacement on the US Team in the Rising Stars Game during All-Star Weekend. Kevin Knox will replace Lonzo Ball in the Rising Stars game, per the NBA — Ian Begley (@IanBegley) February 6, 2019 Kevin Knox has been selected […]

The headache that LaVar Ball has caused the Los Angeles Lakers since the franchise drafted his son, Lonzo Ball, during the summer of 2017 probably makes the Lakers wish they had never drafted him to begin with. But did Magic Johnson ever even really want Ball? According to ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith, it was Lakers […]

The NBA’s trade deadline is only hours away, with Thursday’s 3 p.m. ET cutoff point inching closer and closer before teams take their best shot at making some big-time acquisitions before the window closes for good until free agency in July 1. From buyers to sellers, the league will see plenty of player movement, whether […]

The Los Angeles Lakers have reportedly pulled out of Anthony Davis trade talks after making a massive new offer to the New Orleans Pelicans. Per a new report from the Los Angeles Times’ Broderick Turner, the Lakers were willing to send over their entire young core of players — Lonzo Ball, Kyle Kuzma, Brandon Ingram, Josh Hart, […]

LaVar Ball has made it clear that he does not want his son, Lonzo Ball, being traded to the New Orleans Pelicans in a potential deal that would send Anthony Davis to the Lakers, and the Pelicans reciprocate his feelings. According to Fletcher Mackel of WDSU, the Pelicans want no part of the family circus […]

LaVar Ball has already made it clear that his son, Lonzo Ball, wants no part of playing for the New Orleans Pelicans, which is one of the few snags in any potential deal that would send Anthony Davis to the Los Angeles Lakers. LaVar states that he wants Lonzo in Phoenix playing for the Suns […]

With LaVar Ball sensing that his son, Lonzo, could be on his way out of Los Angeles in the midst of the Anthony Davis trade rumors, he already has a Plan B. According to AZ Sports, LaVar wants Lonzo and his other two sons, LiAngelo and LaMelo, to play for the Phoenix Suns in order […]

Up until recently, LaVar Ball had been quiet this season. It seemed like the boisterous father of Los Angeles Lakers guard Lonzo Ball had finally fallen behind the scenes, but now, LaVar has resurfaced. First, in the midst of speculation that the Lakers could include Lonzo in a trade for New Orleans Pelicans superstar Anthony […]

With the Los Angeles Lakers pursuing a trade for New Orleans Pelicans superstar Anthony Davis, second-year point guard Lonzo Ball is one of the main pieces that the Lakers are putting on the table in exchange for the superstar. Whether or not a deal gets done is anybody’s guess, but LaVar Ball is already preparing […]

LaVar Ball says if the Los Angeles Lakers include Lonzo Ball in an Anthony Davis trade with the New Orleans Pelicans, he wants his son to be moved to the Phoenix Suns and not The Big Easy, according to Ohm Youngmisuk of ESPN. The Pelicans have Elfrid Payton and Jrue Holiday in the backcourt. Lonzo […]

NBA analyst and former superstar Shaquille O’Neal recently spoke to Dan Patrick about all the trade chatter surrounding the Los Angeles Lakers, and during their discussion, the four-time NBA champion was surprised to know that Lonzo Ball shooting worse than him from the free throw line. The Lakers are in the middle of trade talks […]

It’s no longer a secret that the Los Angeles Lakers are salivating over the prospect of bringing New Orleans Pelicans big man Anthony Davis over to Hollywood via a trade. What’s not initially defined was the configuration of the trade package the Lakers are willing to give up. That changes now, as Adrian Wojnarowski of […]

If the Los Angeles Lakers trade Lonzo Ball to acquire Anthony Davis from the New Orleans Pelicans, Ball and his camp would prefer to be dealt to a third team, and the Phoenix Suns could be an option. According to Tania Ganguli of the Los Angeles Times, Lonzo Ball and the Phoenix Suns have mutual […]

Magic Johnson and the Los Angeles Lakers have reportedly offered Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram, Kyle Kuzma, Ivica Zubac, and 1st round pick for New Orleans Pelicans’ star Anthony Davis. They have reportedly called Pelicans GM Dell Demps to let him know that one of the trade scenarios include almost their entire young core. Sources: Lakers […]

Lonzo Ball has made it clear through his camp that he would prefer to land in a city that has a direct line for the starting point guard job, as a potential swap with the New Orleans Pelicans for prized big man Anthony Davis would send him into a potential competition with Elfrid Payton for […]

Despite Lonzo Ball and his camp being hellbent in staying out of New Orleans in any potential trade, the Pelicans envision the Los Angeles Lakers’ sophomore as their future starting point guard and consider him as a vital part of any package for Anthony Davis, according to Tania Ganguli of the Los Angeles Times. The […]