D’Angelo Russell

D’Angelo Russell is not on the Los Angeles Lakers’ list of players to trade. Because, um, duh? Well, maybe not “duh.” According to Hoops Critic’s Brian Geltzeiler, Russell’s name has, in fact, come up in negotiations: In taking to people around the league on who has been made available in trade talks a very surprising [...]

Young players on bad teams generally don’t let losing ruin their day. You’ll often times see them smiling and joking on the bench while their team is getting handled. Kobe Bryant recently noticed this as the Lakers were getting worked by the Blazers the other night, and the two youngsters in question were Julius Randle [...]

Talk about a bittersweet ending. D’Angelo Russell went bonkers in the Los Angeles Lakers’ Thursday night loss to the Sacramento Kings, setting a new career-high with 27 points on 11-of-16 shooting. He also pitched in four assists and two steals. Is that good? It seems good. Oh, it’s good: https://twitter.com/danfavale/status/685460014186786816 D’Angelo Russell might have actually [...]

When the New York Knicks selected Kristaps Porzingis with the fourth-overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft, they were rolling the dice. Here was a talented 7-footer with, at the time, the ceiling of a generational talent and the floor of a bust. It was a risky move and a gutsy, dare-to-be-amazing call by team [...]

Byron Scott’s job as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers may be safe, but he still has some ‘splainin to do. All previous indications are that Scott, who is in the second season of a four-year deal that’s guaranteed through 2016-17, isn’t in any danger of being canned, despite being at the helm of [...]

Kobe Bryant is a realist. Sometimes. And this is one of those times. Although the Black Mamba can be stubborn, if delusional, about his ebbing abilities, the last few years of his career have seen him evolve into a more pensive realist. He’s not about to declare himself a top-10 player, even if he carries [...]

Byron Scott is the head coach of a rebuilding Los Angeles Lakers team that desperately needs its young guns to develop and learn and thrive and form something resembling a foundation for the future. And yet, Scott doesn’t seem to acknowledge that’s the team he’s coaching. A lot of criticism has been thrown Los Angeles’ [...]

The view from the outside of the Los Angeles Lakers is becoming increasingly divergent. That’s what happens when a team loses 116 games in two seasons. It doesn’t matter how many banners they still have hanging, or how much they believe better days are just around the corner. Protracted losing breeds contempt. It doesn’t just [...]

Last season, Lakers rookie Julius Randle broke his leg in his very first professional regular season game and missed the rest of the year. This year, their new highly touted rookie, D’Angelo Russell, has apparently sustained an injury as well. Russell injured his foot in Lakers training camp, but the good news is we’re still [...]

Kobe Bryant’s 20th NBA season will begin without delay. Most likely. Rotator cuff surgery in January ended up sidelining the Los Angeles Lakers great for the rest of 2014-15, limiting him to just 35 appearances overall. At the time of his surgery, January 28, the recovery process was supposed to take roughly nine months. If [...]