Pau Gasol sank a couple of free throws with 5.2 seconds left to help the Los Angeles Lakers secure a 105-103 win over the Atlanta Hawks at Staples Center on Sunday night. Gasol was fouled as he went up for a close shot. “Pau got a great look,” point guard Steve Nash told Time Warner … [Read more…]
If Friday night’s game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the visiting San Antonio Spurs was a heavyweight boxing championship fight, the fans would have been clamoring for a refund. Kobe Bryant is still rehabbing from a torn Achilles tendon he sustained last season and Tim Duncan missed the game because of a chest contusion. … [Read more…]
Chris Kaman’s NBA journey has brought him back to where it all began when he was drafted sixth overall by the Los Angeles Clippers in 2003. Except, he is returning to L.A. to play with the Lakers. And he is interested in proving the Clippers wrong for trading him to the New Orleans Hornets in … [Read more…]
There’s an old saying that you can’t go home again. Well, Nick Young is coming home to play for the Los Angeles Lakers this season to ultimately add some depth to their bench, a weakness for the Lakers last season. Young played high school basketball at Cleveland High in Reseda —played against current teammate Jordan … [Read more…]
Wesley Johnson has never lived up to expectations after being drafted fourth overall in the 2010 NBA draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves. However, Tuesday night, he scored 14 points in the Los Angeles Lakers’ 108-94 win over the Utah Jazz in a preseason game at Staples Center. Last year in Phoenix, he averaged 13.4 points … [Read more…]
The Clippers capped off one of their best seasons in a long time, winning 56 games and finishing fourth in the Western Conference. The last time the franchise won 49 games the team was still in Buffalo and John Wooden was still coaching at UCLA. By firing head coach Vinny Del Negro after the team … [Read more…]
It has been three years since the L.A. Lakers won an NBA title, but if you do a quick scan on the marquee matchups for the 2013-14 season the Lake Show is right in the middle of it. The Chicago Bulls and New York Knicks lead the league in nationally televised appearances with 33 apiece, … [Read more…]
Los Angeles will always be Laker Town for the simple fact that there have been 11 championship parades held in Tinseltown and more than a dozen banners and retired Lakers jerseys hang above Staples Center. However, the argument could be made that this offseason has been dominated by the other team in L.A.: the Clippers. … [Read more…]
For someone who likes playing the role of superhero, Dwight Howard has gotten real good at being a villain. LeBron James and Kobe Bryant now have company at the top when it comes to polarizing figures in the league. We can never refer to Howard as Superman ever again because Superman would have never left … [Read more…]
Drama seems to follow Dwight Howard wherever he’s at. He was like a petulant child in his final days in Orlando, holding the team hostage for months because he couldn’t make up his mind. Now, the drama has shifted to Los Angeles where Howard is again at the center of a firestorm that will undoubtedly … [Read more…]