Lakers

Think the Los Angeles Lakers’ decision to hire Luke Walton, a rookie head coach, to replace Byron Scott means they’re ready to rebuild methodically and with patience? Think again. Fox Sports’ Colin Cowherd has heard from “two separate sources” that the Lakers will flip their draft selection, even if they’re awarded the No. 1 prospect, [...]

Luke Walton is now an official member of the Los Angeles Lakers’ search for Byron Scott’s replacement. Not that this comes as a shock. His name has been kicked around the rumor mill to no end. His candidacy was a formality. It just wasn’t openly official. Now it is, per ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: Steve Kerr, [...]

Derek Fisher’s disastrous end to his tenure with the New York Knicks has not turned him off from coaching. Or from big markets. Or from the idea that he, not even two years removed from retiring as a player, can coach in big markets. Per Ramona Shelburne of ESPN.com (h/t CBS Sports): Sources indicate Derek [...]

Well, it finally happened: The Los Angeles Lakers fired Byron Scott. This move was inevitable. The timing, however, was a bit bizarre. The news came late Sunday night, long after top head coaching candidates Tom Thibodeau and Scott Brooks signed new deals with the Minnesota Timberwolves and Washington Wizards, respectively. If the Lakers were going [...]

Jordan Clarkson has no plans to leave the Los Angeles Lakers this summer. As he said at exit interviews, per Mark Medina of the Los Angeles Daily News: [tweet https://twitter.com/MarkG_Medina/status/720727645856473088] It’s good that Clarkson wants to remain in Hollywood, but it’s not necessarily his decision. He will be a restricted free agent, and while he [...]

Byron Scott’s spot with the Los Angeles Lakers may be more secure than we initially thought. It’s been assumed for the longest time that the organization would can Scott once Kobe Bryant’s farewell tour ended. He hasn’t seemed to connect especially well with the kiddies, and the Lakers need to usher in a new era [...]

One game, one measly game, versus the Utah Jazz, on Wednesday night. This is all that’s left of Kobe Bryant’s NBA career. One game. One stinking game. And while it’s unlikely that the sinking Lakers upend a Jazz team that will be desperately trying to save its playoff life, head coach Byron Scott wants to [...]

Lost in the smiles and handshakes and bro hugs, buried deep beneath a jovial demeanor of a man basking in the final moments of his NBA dream, is the reality of Kobe Bryant’s farewell: The Los Angeles Lakers aren’t good, and that still doesn’t sit well with him. As he said of the imminent end, [...]

The DeAngelo Russell, Nick Young fiasco may have died down a bit from a media standpoint, but the Lakers are still feeling it in the locker room. Who knows if anyone is even talking to Russell and can you imagine what Young is still going through? According to head coach Byron Scott, Nick Young has [...]

On Wednesday, April 13, Kobe Bryant’s 20-year NBA career will end against the Utah Jazz on the Los Angeles Lakers’ home court. That’s bound to incite some sort of emotion. He is bound to feel something different, do something different. Or maybe not, per Mark Median of the Los Angeles Daily News: Kobe on last [...]