Los Angeles Lakers

Randy Wittman must be an avid fan of Forgetting Sarah Marshall. The Washington Wizards are floundering as a team. At 7-9, they’re owners of the fourth-worst record in the Eastern Conference. Their offense isn’t nearly as potent as it was during the playoffs, and their defense, relative to this season’s field of points-prevention units, has [...]

Bryon Scott’s job is safe. For now. Not 20 games into his second season as head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, it already looks like Scott will have played babysitter for the two worst teams in franchise history. That’s not the kind of resume that will help you keep your job—especially when you entered [...]

Back in 2007, two years removed from his divorce with Shaquille O’Neal, Kobe Bryant wasn’t happy with the Los Angeles Lakers and demanded a trade. That much is common knowledge. It’s been talked about and re-spun three times over for nearly a decade, and it’s bound to be rehashed now that the Black Mamba plans [...]

If Kobe Bryant had gotten his way in 2011, Carmelo Anthony would now be a member of the Los Angeles Lakers, not the New York Knicks. This, of course, assumes that the two stars would have coexisted together this long. There’s only one ball allowed on the floor at a time, you know. The offensive [...]

Kevin Durant has a problem with how the NBA media covers Kobe Bryant. The Black Mamba himself, though, has no such issue. Not known for his love of the media, the 2013-14 MVP took some shots at the how the end of Kobe’s career was being improperly handled. Here’s a snippet of his diatribe, courtesy [...]

More than a month into the 2015-16 NBA regular season, everything is just as we thought it would be. LOL, jk. Much about the league’s landscape does make sense. The Warriors are godlike. The Spurs are right behind them. No one in the Eastern Conference can touch the Cavaliers. Not much else makes sense, though. [...]

Los Angeles Lakers coach Byron Scott is not on the hot seat. Right now, it seems his seat is actually pretty comfortable. Despite coaching the Lakers toward one of the NBA’s worst records, and despite allowing Kobe Bryant to shoot himself into the unflattering history books, and despite doling out insufficient playing time to Los [...]

Kobe Bryant is not having a good season, and he knows it. He also knows that the Los Angeles Lakers are, collectively, plagued by more misfortune, and he would like us all to know it. Here’s what the Black Mamba had to say on the heels of the Lakers’ 111-77 to the still undefeated Golden [...]

Stephen Curry is thorough. Just in case you couldn’t tell by the Golden State Warriors’ history-making 16-0 start to the season, Curry would like to spell it out for you: This team is not yet fully satisfied, not after winning a championship this season, not even after becoming the first NBA squad to begin the [...]

Come one, come all, you’re just in time to take part in the first NBA power rankings of the holiday season! This is big stuff, I know, so we’ll get right to it. A lot is happening now that the 2015-16 season is hitting its stride. The Warriors are still the Warriors; the Pacers are [...]