Los Angeles Lakers

Breaking: Phil Jackson is still candid as ever. So candid, it sometimes makes Kobe Bryant angry. Charley Rosen’s fifth installment of “The Phil Files” dropped on Monday over at ESPN.com, and much like the first four editions, it featured an honest Zen Master riffing on everything from current New York Knicks to past New York [...]

Roy Hibbert likes that Los Angeles Lakers head coach Byron Scott, unlike Indiana Pacers head coach Frank Vogel, played in the NBA. Yessireebob, that’s apparently a thing. The Pacers dealt Hibbert to the Lakers amid the free agency hustle and bustle in exchange for, well, pretty much nothing other than salary-cap scraps. He has noticeably [...]

LaMarucs Aldridge is now a member of a the San Antonio Spurs, but he’s also fresh off the free-agent carousel, a ride that included two meetings with the Los Angeles Lakers. Why two? Because the first one didn’t go well. That was the story at least. But then Aldridge held a second meeting with the [...]

Kobe Bryant will retire as a shooting guard. Next season, though, he’ll probably log most of his minutes at small forward. Some of his minutes might even come at the 4, too. Wait, what? The Lakers just have too many damn guards. Players will have to, well, play bigger than they stand. That’s the only [...]

One of these summers, the New York Knicks are going to stay out of the unflattering rumor mill. Not this summer, though. For a team that’s having an understatedly good offseason, even though they failed to nab another superstar in free agency, the Knicks just cannot escape the negatively charged conjecture bugaboo. This is mostly [...]

Kevin Durant free-agency rumors are beginning to percolate. Which means it officially must be summer. Much ado has already been made over his impending foray onto the open market. This speculation is nothing new. But there’s something about his free agency being less than one year away that’s fueling the conjecture fire. Maybe it’s because [...]

Los Angeles Lakers president of basketball operations Jim Buss may soon be out of a job. Unless, of course, the Lakers start playing and winning like the Lakers again. Talking about Jim’s job security during a radio appearance with KPCC team president Jeanie Buss, his sister, painted a bleak picture, per ESPN.com’s Baxter Holmes: Los [...]

There is only one word to describe the free-agency dalliance between LaMarcus Aldridge and the Los Angeles Lakers: awkward. At the start of free agency, the Lakers, along with the San Antonio Spurs, were identified as one of the front-runners to land the Portland Trail Blazers’ nine-year veteran. Shit, the Lakers even met with Aldridge [...]

At the start of NBA free agency, it’s normally the players and teams that dominate the rumor mill. This year, however, it’s the salary cap. Make no mistake, player and team chatter is everywhere. But there’s another layer to the speculation fire because of the league’s impending salary-cap boon. The financial ceiling is set to [...]

Draft season rumor-mill frenzy sequence, Take 1,268. The Los Angeles Lakers, owners of the No. 2 pick in Thursday’s NBA draft, are trying to poach DeMarcus Cousins from the Sacramento Kings. No, seriously. They are. From ESPN.com’s Marc Stein: The Los Angeles Lakers have emerged as one of the most determined trade suitors for Sacramento [...]