Lakers

Magic Johnson was a wanted man long before he became the Los Angeles Lakers’ team president. During a recent interview on ESPN’s First Take, the 58-year-old Hall of Famer revealed that he fielded job offers from teams like the Detroit Pistons and Golden State Warriors, in addition to perhaps the New York Knicks. Here’s the video [...]

According to reports from TMZ Sports and ESPN, The Lakers will retire Kobe Bryant’s jersey during their game against the Warriors on December 18. [tweet https://twitter.com/BleacherReport/status/907594866238132225] So which number of the Black Mamba’s will be hanging up in the rafters No. 8 or No. 24? The answer is both according to Ramona Shelburne of ESPN. [...]

Lamar Odom’s life and career has taken a very tragic and sad turn. Once seen as one of the most exciting young prospects in the NBA, an NBA Sixth Man of the Year and a huge contributor for an NBA championship team Los Angeles Lakers team, Odom has sinced flamed out of the league, dealt [...]

LeBron James does not care for Blake Griffin’s prediction that he’s more likely to leave Cleveland for New York than Los Angeles. While making an appearance on the”View From the Cheap Seats“ podcast, the Los Angeles Clippers’ All-Star forward said the following (h/t TMZ): “Honestly, I don’t see him coming to L.A. period,” Griffin said … [...]

Collusion and tampering seem to be a common occurrence in today’s NBA as players and opposing teams have secret conversations and let their intentions be known far before the July free agency period begins (think about how it is possible for a contract to be agreed to right at midnight on July 1), one of [...]

The short answer to this question is yes, the Los Angeles Lakers are obviously already sending signals LeBron James’ way. That’s what you do when you’re getting ready, in advance, to pitch superstar free agents on joining your team. The longer answer comes from ESPN.com’s Adrian Wojnarowski, who explained on ESPN’s The Jump how Kentavious Caldwell-Pope’s [...]

It is exceedingly apparent that the Lakers are going all in on free agency next summer with the belief that they will be able to land at least two superstars in free agency out of LeBron James, Paul George, Russell Westbrook and DeMarcus Cousins. In order to have the necessary cap space, they essentially have [...]

It was pretty apparent that the Lakers were working with the Pacers to agree on a trade to acquire Paul George before the 2017 NBA Draft. George has stated his intentions to be a Laker and many around the league feel he is still destined to end up there even after he was traded to [...]

After being renounced by the Pistons and becoming an unrestricted free agent last week, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope instantly became the most valuable free agent on the open market (restricted free agency is not an open market). While the Nets decided to pass on Pope while waiting on the Wizards to match their $100 million offer for [...]

To say the Boston Celtics and Indiana Pacers remain miles apart in negotiations for Paul George would be an understatement. On Thursday, Mark Murphy of the Boston Herald reported Kevin Pritchard, Indy’s team president, was asking for the moon in George talks: [tweet https://twitter.com/Murf56/status/880468484920049664] Yeah, the Pacers aren’t getting that much. And if the Celtics have [...]