Luke Walton

LaVar Ball doesn’t want Luke Walton coaching the Los Angeles Lakers. Whether his son, Lonzo Ball, feels the same is a matter up for debate. But LaVar made his thoughts clear this past weekend while speaking with ESPN.com’s Jeff Goodman. Plenty of people took exception to his comments, the prevailing theme of which centered on [...]

Oh hey would you look at that, LaVar Ball is back in the news again and he is criticizing those around his son Lonzo when things aren’t going well. Much like the fact that the UCLA Bruins “Had too many slow white guys” when Lonzo Ball was playing there last season, he is now blaming [...]

The Los Angeles Lakers would like LaVar Ball, father of rookie Lonzo Ball, to take it easy on head coach Luke Walton. And that, as of now, is an official statement. According to ESPN.com’s Ramona Shelburne, Lakers president Magic Johnson and general manager Rob Pelinka recently sat down with LaVar in hopes of convincing him [...]

With the Los Angeles Lakers on a five-game losing streak, people are searching for unrest—something, anything, that points to a possible change in light of recent struggles. Nothing’s inherently surprising about this. Such stuff is pretty standard practice under the circumstances. It’s doubly pertinent for the Lakers. They play in a huge market. They have [...]

If you’re a member of the Los Angeles Lakers and you want to shoot threes during games, head coach Luke Walton is officially going to make you work for it. For now, at least. The Lakers, collectively, are shooting under 30 percent from long range–by far and away the worst mark in league. The Memphis [...]

The Los Angeles Lakers won’t stop riding with Lonzo Ball. While the rookie point guard created waves when he didn’t join a scuffle during the Lakers’ loss to the Phoenix Suns, the team isn’t sweating it. Someone has already spoken with Ball about the situation, and head coach Luke Walton reiterated, per ESPN.com’s Ohm Youngmisuk, [...]

The Los Angeles Lakers aren’t exactly lighting up the nets from downtown this season. They are last in the NBA in three-pointers made through 15 games and are shooting a league worst, 28.8% from three-point range for the season. That is almost four percent worse than the next worse team, the Chicago Bulls at 32.2%. [...]

Brandon Ingram has become a fairly divisive player in NBA circles. Some think he’ll eventually be a superstar or occasional All-Star. They think he sees the floor well with the ball in his hands, tries super hard to make the right reads out of the pick-and-roll and that he’ll inevitably develop into a more efficient [...]

Brandon Ingram is 19 years old, but the Los Angeles Lakers are pushing the rookie to carry himself like he’s 29. Head coach Luke Walton has been impressed with the newbie’s consistently gritty efforts. Many of the numbers won’t support it, but Ingram is already good. Though his three-point touch—and perhaps the speed of his release—need some [...]

Luke Walton, now head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, still views Phil Jackson, now president of the New York Knicks, as a valuable confidant. From the New York Post‘s Marc Berman: Lakers rookie head coach Luke Walton admits he’s been in contact with Jackson from time to time to get advice — including right [...]