Lakers

The Los Angeles Lakers won’t stop riding with Lonzo Ball. While the rookie point guard created waves when he didn’t join a scuffle during the Lakers’ loss to the Phoenix Suns, the team isn’t sweating it. Someone has already spoken with Ball about the situation, and head coach Luke Walton reiterated, per ESPN.com’s Ohm Youngmisuk, [...]

Kyle Kuzma, all of 22, is out here being the voice of reason. People have taken to disparaging Los Angeles Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball in recent weeks—more so than usual. His shooting percentages are in the toilet, and head coach Luke Walton has benched him for a couple key fourth-quarter runs. Given the hype attached [...]

The Los Angeles Lakers aren’t exactly lighting up the nets from downtown this season. They are last in the NBA in three-pointers made through 15 games and are shooting a league worst, 28.8% from three-point range for the season. That is almost four percent worse than the next worse team, the Chicago Bulls at 32.2%. [...]

Don’t expect Luol Deng and the Los Angeles Lakers to part ways anytime soon. We know both sides are looking for a way to dissolve their union. But an amicable solution, or any solution, doesn’t appear to be on the way. A buyout, for the record, is basically out of the question. Deng has two [...]

The Los Angeles Lakers’ decision to give Timofey Mozgov, now of the Brooklyn Nets, and Luol Deng massive contracts in 2016 free agency is starting to make sense. It remains indefensible, to be sure. They were on the rebuilding track at the time. No one liked Mozgov’s four-year, $64 million pact. He was coming off [...]

Did you need anymore confirmation that Julius Randle won’t be part of the Los Angeles Lakers after this season, as their attempts to reel in multiple superstar free agents soldiers? Probably not, because this has been talked about ad nauseam. But ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski has your additional confirmation anyway (via Lakers Outsiders): [tweet https://twitter.com/LakersOutsiders/status/928426723779235841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Flakersoutsiders.com%2F2017%2F11%2F08%2Flakers-trade-rumors-julius-randle-very-unlikely-to-continue-with-lakers-beyond-this-season%2F] Here’s [...]

Luol Deng has made all of one appearance, spanning 13 minutes, for the Los Angeles Lakers this season. He is woefully out of place as they try to develop their young core, and he knows it. The Lakers have been open about it. And he’s being a pro about it. But Deng’s agent is also [...]

Lonzo Ball has no time for fair-weather Los Angeles Lakers fans. He only wants to deal with the realest supporters. The rookie tweeted out the following on Sunday night, after the Lakers fell to the Utah Jazz: [tweet https://twitter.com/ZO2_/status/924488601542516736] People will poke fun at this because he’s Lonzo Ball. Others will question whether it’s even [...]

Brandon Ingram has become a fairly divisive player in NBA circles. Some think he’ll eventually be a superstar or occasional All-Star. They think he sees the floor well with the ball in his hands, tries super hard to make the right reads out of the pick-and-roll and that he’ll inevitably develop into a more efficient [...]

The Lakers have an abundance of young talent littered around their roster with Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram, Julius Randle, Larry Nance Jr., Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Ivica Zubac and more. One thing that they are missing though is a veteran presence in the locker room, so we don’t have any more Snapchat controversies you know? They have [...]