Los Angeles Lakers

LeBron James wants Luke Walton replaced, so the Lakers should fire him and get on with it. After poaching Walton from the defending champion Golden State Warriors, the Lakers are free to do whatever they want, including what Lakers President Magic Johnson and star player LeBron James want, which seems to be moving from Luke [...]

As the Los Angeles Lakers continue to rise in the Western Conference standings, the team looks more and more like any other team of LeBron James—maybe even the 2007 Cleveland Cavaliers, a team that made a surprise trip to the NBA Finals. That Cavs team was led by James (27.3 ppg at that time), Larry [...]

The magic is officially back in Lakers’ land. With back-to-back rim rocking jams three minutes into the Lakers v Trailblazers game, LeBron James told the world loud and clear that he’s still one of the best players in the NBA today even at 33 years old. James’ dunks: The crowd erupted, and the Blazers were [...]

76ers Joel Embiid, 24-year old all-star, tweeted out, “The Lakers are FOREVER gonna be Kobe’s and Magic’s team….Process that.” LeBron James’ path to another championship may have been easier in Philly than Los Angeles, but James will now probably have to fight through either the Golden State Warriors or the Houston Rockets to get there. [...]

At some point the Los Angeles Lakers will have made a decision on head coach Byron Scott’s future. That point just isn’t now. Per the Los Angeles Times‘s Ben Bolch: Will this also be Coach Byron Scott’s final season with the Lakers? The franchise seems torn on whether he’ll return for the third and last [...]

This is what the Los Angeles Lakers planning for the future feels like. There are no world-beating trade rumors, no wild scenarios in which the Lakers land a superstar while giving up little to no assets. They are a team on the mend, preparing for Kobe Bryant’s retirement, patiently waiting for their young foundation of [...]

Here we come, NBA All-Star break. Which means here comes the NBA playoffs! More than half of the Association’s 2015-16 season is in the books, and save for a cluster of steady teams at the top of our power rankings, the league’s hierarchy knows no order. For every certainty like the Warriors, Spurs, Cavaliers and [...]

Man, Kobe Bryant sure is old. And he knows it. The 37-year-old Black Mamba is playing through his 20th NBA season, which is bound to lead to him facing players who were barely alive when he made his debut. Shit, Phoenix Suns rookie Devin Booker was born just four days before Kobe played in his [...]

Plenty of NBA fans will miss Kobe Bryant when he hangs up his kicks for good after this season. And LeBron James is among them. Ahead of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Wednesday night tilt with the Los Angeles Lakers, James described his respect for the Black Mamba and admitted that seeing him go at the end [...]

The Los Angeles Lakers are not planning to fire head coach Byron Scott. They’re also not planning not to fire him. Confusing? Sure. Such is life in Hollywood these days, as the Lakers prep for the post-Kobe Bryant era. And while Scott has another guaranteed season left on his deal, he isn’t assured of being [...]