Pau Gasol

If this Lakers’ season were a new movie, what would you call it? “Escape Plan?” Oh, wait D-12 already did that. “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2?” Or maybe “Prisoners,” to describe the Lakers fans and perhaps Bryant, himself. As the Lakers prepare to start the 2013-2014 season without veteran 5-time NBA champion and [...]

Mike D’Antoni has jokes. There wasn’t much to laugh about for the Los Angeles Lakers last season and after losing Dwight Howard to the Houston Rockets, that’s sort of true today. Then, you know, there’s the whole Kobe Bryant still being injured thing. Reasons to smile aren’t exactly banging Los Angeles’ door down. Still, Magic [...]

Halfway thru the 2013 NBA preseason, the Los Angeles Lakers look better than many expected even playing without 5-time NBA champion and 15-time All-Star Kobe Bryant. Thru four games, the Lakers are 2-2 against Golden State, Denver (twice), and Sacramento. Playing without 17-year Lakers guard Bryant, the Lakers clearly lack an identity. But, credit Coach [...]

So, yeah. This happened. The Los Angeles Lakers are in China as part of the NBA’s Global games schedule, a trip that’s proved dangerous to their roster’s well-being. Practices haven’t been particularly grueling, and outside of some jet lag and presumed trouble adjusting to the time difference, no reports of basketball-related injuries have been sent [...]

Magic Johnson is an optimist. Either that, or he’s completely delusional. Success is a way of life for the former Los Angeles Lakers great. Though he’s faced his share of adversity over the course of his life, triumph is just assumed. Winning isn’t just a verb for Magic; it’s a state of mind. He snagged [...]

Sheesh. Kobe Bryant, who is recovering from a ruptured Achilles injury suffered last April, headed to Germany for another round of platelet-rich plasma therapy on his right knee, according to Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski. Per Mark Medina of the Los Angeles Daily News, the procedure in question has nothing to with his Achilles injury and [...]

No one tell Pau Gasol what the Los Angeles Lakers’ real plans (probably) are after this season. Why? Because I don’t want to hurt his feelings. According to the Los Angeles Times’ Mike Bresnahan, the fluffy-haired Spaniard would love the opportunity to re-sign with the Lakers this coming summer: “It’s nice to be here in [...]

Kobe Bryant must never change. Seriously, he can’t. Chills, the bad kind, are sent down my spine when I think of how much more mundane topics of conversation would be if he changed. Or stopped talking altogether. Case in point: Los Angeles Lakers media day. It was a glorious occasion, one that wasn’t as filled [...]

General managers are rarely honest. Lying, deflecting and evading are (probably) in their job description. Nothing the NBA’s maneuvering minds say can be taken at face value—most of the time. On certain occasions, however, there are moments of clarity. Sometimes, they can be genuine and truthful. This is one of those times. Houston Rockets GM [...]

Words cannot describe Metta World Peace. Luck for us, then, that he has no problem using words of his own. While we may be at a loss for them, he never is. Ever. And such was the case at a signing for his children’s book “Metta’s Bedtime Stories,” where he predicted that the Los Angeles [...]