Lakers

Because of his loud mouth, gregarious, offensive and in your face father, Lavar, Lonzo Ball is probably the most recognized name in the 2017 NBA Draft. As a 6’6″ point guard and a local Los Angeles kid who played for his hometown school in college, the UCLA Bruins, and a player with potentially special play [...]

One of these days we won’t have a Lonzo Ball-Los Angeles Lakers rumor to write about. That day is not today. According to ESPN.com’s Chad Ford, the organization remains split on whether to select him with the No. 2 pick: The Lakers want to control the narrative, which is that they — not LaVar Ball, [...]

Paul George’s journey to the Los Angeles Lakers may not be such a formality after all. A great deal of people expect him to leave for Hollywood in 2018, when he has the option to explore free agency. It doesn’t matter if the Indiana Pacers trade him elsewhere before then, or whether he becomes eligible [...]

Lonzo Ball landing with the Los Angeles Lakers is starting to feel like less and less of a formality. The latest, in fact, is fairly damning. A source told Bleacher Report’s Jordan Schultz that, if the draft were today, the Lakers would pass on Ball for a variety of reasons: [tweet https://twitter.com/Schultz_Report/status/871111030918848513] Even if the [...]

Lonzo Ball isn’t a lock to join the Los Angeles Lakers after all. While many assume the Purple and Gold will take the electric UCLA guard at No. 2, the team, apparently, isn’t so sure. It needs to see more from Ball before committing to him, according to Basketball Insiders’ Steve Kyler: With reports surfacing that [...]

Magic Johnson really likes Brandon Ingram. As the Los Angeles Lakers team president told ESPN Los Angeles, per USA Today‘s A.J. Neuharth-Keusch: “I would say probably the only player that we would say, ‘Hey’ — that we would probably not move — is Brandon Ingram,” Johnson told ESPN Los Angeles on Thursday. “I think that we’re excited [...]

D’Angelo Russell doesn’t seem too excited that the Los Angeles Lakers will have the chance to draft UCLA’s Lonzo Ball with the second overall pick in this year’s draft. And he’s not afraid to show it. Sort of. Russell liked a tweet that said there was “no way in hell” the Lakers should draft Ball: [...]

Kudos to Los Angeles Lakers president Magic Johnson and general manager Rob Pelinka. They get it. Armed with the second overall pick,  and with their ties to Paul George growing stronger, there will be calls for the Lakers to try trading for him now. He will be a free agent in 2018 (player option), but [...]

Roughly six milliseconds after the Los Angeles Lakers won the second-overall pick in the NBA’s draft lottery, word came that there are “multiple” teams “evaluating” trade packages for D’Angelo Russell. Here are the juicy deets, as relayed by SI.com’s Jake Fischer: With the Los Angeles Lakers coming away with the No. 2 overall pick in [...]

LaVar Ball totally called it. He said the Los Angeles Lakers would keep their top-three pick, which they did. And then he said they’d use it to draft his son, Lonzo Ball, which they might. Armed with the second-overall selection in this year’s draft, the Lakers are in prime Lonzo territory. Markelle Fultz is expected [...]