Los Angeles Lakers

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Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James will reportedly change his jersey number with the Los Angeles Lakers from No. 23 to No. 6 next season. James has played three seasons with the purple and gold, all while wearing the No. 23. There were reports in the fall of 2019 that James was going to give his No. 23 jersey to…

There will be one lasting image of the Los Angeles Lakers 2021 season. It will undoubtedly be the moment that Anthony Davis, after giving it everything he had to start in Game 6, collapsed to the floor midway through the first quarter and began to cry. He knew, just like we all did, that his strained left groin wasn’t healthy…

The Lakers were 11-7 this season with LeBron James on the court and Anthony Davis off of it. That record gave the Lakers confidence and optimism entering their Game 5 matchup with the Phoenix Suns. In less than ten minutes it was gone. Without Davis, the Lakers had no answers for the scorching Suns. They trailed by as many as…

The Phoenix Suns and Los Angeles Lakers appear to be heading in opposite directions during their first-round playoff series. Phoenix point guard Chris Paul injured his right shoulder during the first half of Game 1, and was clearly limited in Games 2 and 3 of the series, both losses for the Suns. Now, Paul is looking and feeling better as…

Phoenix Suns coach Monty Williams initially planned to sit Chris Paul for Game 4 against the Lakers. A persistent shoulder injury had reduced the point guard to a fraction of himself, and Williams didn’t think Paul could help in a crucial game. Paul changed his coach’s mind in an emotional pregame conversation Sunday. “He said, ‘Coach, let me start,...

Los Angeles Lakers forward Anthony Davis has been ruled out for the second half of Game 4 against the Phoenix Suns due to a left groin strain. The defending NBA champion Lakers also played Sunday without starting guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, who was sidelined by a bruised knee. Chris Paul played for the Phoenix Suns despite his injured right shoulder, managing…

Los Angeles Lakers starting guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope has a mildly bruised left knee, and his availability is uncertain for Game 4 of their first-round playoff series against Phoenix. An MRI exam of Caldwell-Pope’s knee revealed no structural damage, the Lakers announced Friday. Caldwell-Pope was injured in the third quarter of the Lakers’ 109-95 victory over the Suns on Thursday night….

There were multiple moments inside Staples Center on Thursday night where it looked neither team wanted to take control of the game. With the best-of-seven series deadlocked at 1-1, and fans in Los Angeles allowed inside Staples Center for the first playoff game since April 27, 2013, the atmosphere was electric. The 7,825 allowed in attendance because of COVID-19 made…

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The Los Angeles Lakers are staying at Staples Center for the long term, it was announced Thursday.

After the Los Angeles Lakers lost Game 1 of their best-of-seven first round playoff series to the Phoenix Suns, Anthony Davis took responsibility for the loss. “This is on me,” said Davis who struggled with just 13 points in Game 1. “There’s no way we’re winning a game, let alone a series if I play this way. This one is…

For the first time in recent memory, the lower-seeded Los Angeles Lakers opened their first-round series with the number two seeded Phoenix Suns as the overwhelming favorites. But the Lakers are not your typical seven seed. The reigning NBA Champions were unhealthy for most of the regular season, but picked the perfect time to get back to full strength, winning…

The Phoenix Suns plowed through the regular season in impressive fashion, breaking an 11-year playoff drought by finishing with the second-most wins in the entire league. Their postseason reward: A first-round date with the defending NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers. In arguably the most intriguing opening-round matchup, the No. 7 seed Lakers enter the series as a slight betting favorite over...

Will Laker season tickets be enough to convince people to get COVID-19 vaccinations? How about tickets to the Broadway smash “Hamilton”? Those are the carrots being dangled this weekend in hopes of luring people to vaccination sites.

The road to repeat for a reigning Champion is never easy. Fraught with peril and always tumultuous, the tale of the 2020-21 Lakers is no different. The team’s dynamic superstar duo of LeBron James and Anthony Davis missed a combined 63 games with injuries this season. The Lakers starting lineup on the floor against the Warriors on Wednesday had only…

LeBron James and Steph Curry are used to meeting in the spring with an NBA championship up for grabs. The stakes will be so much different when they face each other this time: they will just be vying for a playoff spot. James and the seventh-seeded Los Angeles Lakers host Curry’s eighth-seeded Golden State Warriors on Wednesday night in...

LeBron James scored 25 points before he appeared to mildly aggravate a right ankle injury and the Los Angeles Lakers closed out the regular season with a 110-98 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans on Sunday night. While the victory was the Lakers’ fifth straight, it was not enough to pull them high enough in the Western Conference standings to…

Vanessa Bryant took Michael Jordan’s hand and walked down from the stage, a familiar chant breaking out throughout the arena as she made her way back to her seat. “Kobe! Kobe! Kobe!” the crowd shouted. With that, he was — officially, finally — a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Kobe Bryant is in the Hall now,…

The Los Angeles Lakers are headed to the postseason, that much we know for sure. But where, when, and who they will play is still yet to be determined. Ahead of the final game of the regular season, the Lakers currently find themselves tied for 6th place in the Western Conference with the Portland Trail Blazers. If you think the…