Kobe Bryant

Paul George. Kobe Bryant. Future teammates? Don’t hold your breath. The Indiana Pacers superstar is slated to become a restricted free agent next summer, when the Los Angeles Lakers will have a ton of cap space. See where I’m going with this? Not very far actually. Players like George don’t often make it to restricted [...]

There’s still no escaping the Dwightmare. Dwight Howard has already chosen to play for the Houston Rockets, and Kobe Bryant continues to bleed Los Angeles Lakers purple and gold, but the two continue to dance around and toward each other. Speaking with ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith about his decision to spurn Los Angeles in favor [...]

Kobe Bryant is eyeing an early return to NBA play after sustaining an achilles injury in April. To help, a one-off version of the Nike Kobe 8 System in a unreleased height. The Kobe 8 System Mid isn’t the first specialized sneaker that that Nike made to aid in the recovering of Kobe Bryant. Back [...]

Steve Nash was right, Dwight Howard really didn’t want to play for the Los Angeles Lakers. The NBA free-agency period is winding down. Most of the big-name players have signed, and a majority of the drama is over. And still I find myself writing about the Lakers on an almost daily basis. Partly because I [...]

Dwight Howard was never going to re-sign with the Los Angeles Lakers if you ask Steve Nash. Speaking with the Los Angeles-based “Mason & Ireland Show” on ESPN Radio (via Eric Pincus of the Los Angeles Times), the Lakers point man didn’t believe the team had a chance at retaining Howard leading into that meeting. [...]

The New York Knicks should be afraid. Very afraid. Carmelo Anthony, the lone superstar on the Knicks’ roster can become an unrestricted free agent next summer, an opportunity he will likely seize. Then 30, this will be ‘Melo’s first chance to explore free agency, and he’s not going to pass it up. He’ll join a [...]

Dwight Howard isn’t the Los Angeles Lakers’ only problem. The Dwightmare Part II has kept the Lakers busy, distracting them from plenty of other issues, one of which is the relationship between head coach Mike D’Antoni and Pau Gasol. Speaking with David Alarcón of the Spanish basketball website basket4us.com, Pau said that D’Antoni wasn’t the [...]

In game 4 of the NBA Finals, James, 33 points, and Wade, 32 points, were in rare form. The Heat crawled back from a 2-3 deficit to win the 2013 Finals. In game 7, James came thru with 37 points and 12 rebounds, Wade 23 points and 10 rebounds. Miami’s made 3 straight Finals and [...]

Currently the Los Angeles Lakers are hoping Dwight Howard wants to play Kobe Bryant for the foreseeable future. Pushing 35 and rehabbing a ruptured Achilles, the Black Mamba isn’t the ideal superstar partner any more. When healthy, he’s a top-10 superstar, even a half-decade removed from 30. There’s just no telling how healthy he’ll be [...]

The anonymous-sourced hits keep on coming for the Los Angeles Lakers. Dwight Howard has been the center of much ado since he was traded to Hollywood last summer. Upon arriving, he wasn’t going to sign a new contract; he was going to reach free agency in 2013. No one cared. His future in Los Angeles [...]