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"The quality of shots is important. Making sure I'm not taking the bad ones is something I try to emphasize."
October 9, 2022 at 4:50 PM -
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Pelinka got LeBron to sign an extension this offseason, then revamped the supporting cast around his star.
October 8, 2022 at 4:50 PM -
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The Lakers front office couldn't come to a consensus and didn't do the deal, according to a new report.
October 3, 2022 at 10:50 AM -
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Is Anthony Davis a No.1 offensive option on a championship team?
September 29, 2022 at 4:50 PM -
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"If you make that trade, it has to be the right one, you have one shot to do it." —Lakers GM Rob Pelinka
September 27, 2022 at 9:50 AM -
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"We got to have a defensive mindset. Those are the guys that that's going to get the minutes, guys going out there to get stops."
September 27, 2022 at 7:50 AM -
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"I need to just do my job. Whether I'm wanted [by the Lakers] or not doesn't really matter."
September 26, 2022 at 6:50 AM -
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After helping New Orleans return to the playoffs for the first time since Anthony Davis was traded to the Lakers, C.J. McCollum earned a two-year, $64 million extension...
September 24, 2022 at 10:50 AM -
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Stop me if you've heard this before: The Pacers demanded two first round picks from the Lakers in trade talks and Los Angeles turned them down.
September 21, 2022 at 6:50 PM -
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On a radio show with 1075 The Fan, Pacers GM Chad Buchanan said that Myles Turner will be with the Pacers on opening night as his starting center. Those comments should...
September 21, 2022 at 10:50 AM -
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It's hard not to watch Westbrook's volume scoring game the past couple of seasons and think he would thrive as a sixth man.
September 16, 2022 at 6:50 PM -
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It's not a signing that moves the needle for the Lakers, but it's not a bad one.
September 16, 2022 at 3:50 PM -
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The Showtime Lakers of the 1980s got together for a reuinion this week in Hawaii with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic, Worthy, and Pat Riley running a practice.
September 16, 2022 at 7:50 AM -
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Bogdanovic is the one remaining Jazz veteran that could bring a first-round pick back to Utah in a trade.
September 10, 2022 at 2:50 PM -
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There is no trade out there that works for Los Angeles, so the Lakers are running their big three back.
September 9, 2022 at 7:05 AM -
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The Lakers also have no plans to send him away (as the Rockets did with John Wall last season).
September 5, 2022 at 5:50 PM -
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Bojan Bogdanovic, Mike Conley, Malik Beasley and Jordan Clarkson all could be on the move.
September 2, 2022 at 3:50 PM -
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Knicks wing Cam Reddish reportedly wants a trade off the Knicks, and the Lakers are lurking as a potential landing spot for him.
September 1, 2022 at 11:50 AM -
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"My dad never [tanked] in 32 years," Jeanie Buss said of her father, Jerry.
August 30, 2022 at 4:50 PM -
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The Lakers are going to have to put some old (and new) beefs aside to get through this season.
August 30, 2022 at 2:50 PM -
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Is trading Westbrook worth the Lakers giving up the two remaining first-round picks they control this decade?
August 28, 2022 at 11:50 AM -
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The Lakers have been looking for that deal since last February before the trade deadline and have yet to find one to their liking.
August 27, 2022 at 1:50 PM -
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The Lakers have been looking for that deal since last February before the trade deadline and have yet to find one to their liking.
August 27, 2022 at 9:50 AM -
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New Lakers' coach Darvin Ham said the max extension LeBron James signed this summer is "huge" for the franchise heading into the season.
August 26, 2022 at 5:50 PM -
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New Lakers' coach Darvin Ham said the max extension LeBron James signed this summer is "huge" for the franchise heading into the season.
August 26, 2022 at 10:50 AM -
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The Lakers have been looking for a Westbrook trade since last trade deadline, has anything changed?
August 26, 2022 at 5:50 AM -
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Davin Ham is preaching defense first and Beverley will fit right in.
August 24, 2022 at 9:50 PM -
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The Lakers are looking to round out their roster and find talent upgrades, and reportedly are considering a reunion with Dennis Schroder.
August 24, 2022 at 7:50 AM -
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The Lakers have pushed for a Kyrie Irving trade but the Nets have not been interested.
August 18, 2022 at 7:50 AM -
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LeBron is locked in with the Lakers for at least two more seasons.
August 17, 2022 at 12:50 PM -
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Lakers owner Jeanie. Buss was on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" and was asked the strangest thing she saw at a Lakers game. She broke out an O.J. Simpson story.
August 16, 2022 at 7:50 AM -
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Does LeBron's Lakers-only resume stack up against the likes of Jerry West, Magic Johnson, or Kobe Bryant?
August 14, 2022 at 5:50 AM -
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The championship team raising their banner and getting their rings on opening night is an NBA tradition.
August 13, 2022 at 12:50 PM -
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The NBA schedule is expected to be released later in the week.
August 13, 2022 at 5:50 AM -
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A lot of hurdles still remain for a trade, including the Nets not wanting Westbrook.
August 11, 2022 at 4:50 PM -
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How far the Lakers go next season is all about Anthony Davis.
August 9, 2022 at 8:50 PM -
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If Westbrook is still on the team, media day is going to be wild for the Lakers.
August 6, 2022 at 5:50 PM -
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The Jazz want a larger haul of draft picks for Mitchell than they got for Rudy Gobert.
August 5, 2022 at 9:50 AM -
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On the first day they could meet on the topic, the Lakers and LeBron James talked contract extension, and LeBron's agent called the meeting...
August 4, 2022 at 4:50 PM -
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LeBron posted a video of him dunking with his sons at the Lakers' facility yesterday. Is that a guy looking to bolt L.A.?
August 4, 2022 at 6:50 AM -
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Nunn missed all of last season with a bone bruise in his right knee.
August 1, 2022 at 7:50 AM -
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LeBron has said he planned to finish his career with the Lakers, except maybe to play with his son Bronny.
July 30, 2022 at 5:50 AM -
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A Westbrook trade for Kyrie Irving (or anyone else) likely will require the two picks the Lakers can trade.
July 28, 2022 at 11:50 AM -
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"I don't condone any gun violence that happens around our country."
July 23, 2022 at 6:50 AM -
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Trade talks between the Lakers and Pacers in a deal that would send Buddy Hield and Myles Turner to the Lakers for Russell Westbrook and picks is...
July 22, 2022 at 4:50 PM -
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"For all of this to be heaped on Russ, it's kind of unfair."
July 21, 2022 at 6:50 PM -
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Hield or the Rockets' Eric Gordon have long been the Plan B for the Lakers.
July 21, 2022 at 7:50 AM -
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While their relationship seems frosty — at best — LeBron James, Anthony Davis, and Russell Westbrook spoke on the phone and vowed to make it work.
July 18, 2022 at 4:50 PM -
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LeBron James and Russell Westbrook both attended a Lakers' Summer League game – without showing any signs of interacting.
July 18, 2022 at 11:50 AM -
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A new report says Russell Westbrook never asked for a trade from the Lakers this summer. Did he have to? The Lakers were looking for one anyway.
July 16, 2022 at 11:50 AM -
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Russell Westbrook has split with his agent of 14 years and it's easy to connect the dots to that being about wanting a trade off the Lakers.
July 16, 2022 at 7:50 AM -
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Lakers owner Jeanie Buss' recent tweet about Kobe Bryant had many people suspecting she was sending a message to LeBron James.
July 14, 2022 at 3:50 PM -
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Anthony Davis said the Lakers would've beaten the Suns in the 2021 playoffs if he didn't get hurt.
July 11, 2022 at 7:50 AM -
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The Lakers and Hornets played into sudden-death double overtime on Sunday night when JT Thor hit the game-winner for Charlotte.
July 11, 2022 at 7:50 AM -
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It's a complex trade, and the Nets have other priorities right now.
July 10, 2022 at 10:50 AM -
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It's a complex trade, and the Nets have other priorities right now.
July 10, 2022 at 8:50 AM -
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"The guys we have on our roster I'm very thankful for, I'm proud of and we want to maximize everything they can do."
July 9, 2022 at 10:50 AM -
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Dan Feldman and Nate Duncan of the "Dunc'd On" podcast hold mock trade negotiations between the Nets, Lakers and Mavericks
July 6, 2022 at 8:50 PM -
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Bryant and Damian Jones will battle it out for the starting role and the non-Anthony Davis minutes at center.
July 6, 2022 at 6:50 AM -
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The Lakers and Nets were reportedly actively engaged in Kyrie Irving-Russell Westbrook trade talks.
July 4, 2022 at 7:50 PM -
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Now that the Nets are not thinking title next season, they are open to taking on Westbrook and his salary.
July 2, 2022 at 5:50 PM -
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Monk played so well last season the Lakers could no longer afford him.
July 1, 2022 at 11:50 AM -
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The Lakers also added depth with a few minimum signings: Juan Toscano-Anderson (another Klutch client), Damian Jones and Troy Brown.
June 30, 2022 at 5:50 PM -
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Unlike the John Wall situation in Houston, there will be no buyout. Westbrook is on the Lakers' roster.
June 28, 2022 at 6:50 PM -
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Remember when the Lakers traded a young Ivica Zubac to the Clippers?
June 28, 2022 at 2:50 PM -
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The reality is that Monk has been so good he has almost certainly played his way off the Lakers.
June 27, 2022 at 12:50 PM -
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The Lakers are the only team he is interested in, but making a trade work there is insanely difficult.
June 27, 2022 at 10:50 AM -
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Whether a LeBron and Irving Lakers team could beat the Warriors would be all about Anthony Davis.
June 26, 2022 at 6:50 PM -
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Wall and the Rockets reaching a buyout is only logical as he is in the last year of his contract.
June 26, 2022 at 4:50 PM -
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Irving listed the Knicks, Lakers, Clippers, 76ers, Mavericks and Heat as his preferred destinations. If not the Nets.
June 23, 2022 at 2:50 PM -
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The Lakers have drafted so well recently, they can be expected to at least slightly outperform their draft slot.
June 23, 2022 at 11:50 AM -
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He missed all of last season with a bone bruise in his knee.
June 22, 2022 at 4:50 AM -
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There are rumors about a Russell Westbrook trade, maybe to Indiana for Malcolm Brogdon or to Brooklyn for Kyrie Irving, but they are long shots. At best
June 21, 2022 at 5:50 PM -
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The "Will they?", "Won't They?", "Won't they?", "Won't They?", "Will they?" saga between Kyrie Irving and the Nets has taken another turn.
June 20, 2022 at 8:50 AM -
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When the Grizzlies hired him as coach three years ago, Taylor Jenkins wasn't even the most-heralded Bucks assistant. (That was Darvin Ham, whom the Lakers just hired...
June 13, 2022 at 2:50 PM -
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Jayson Tatum grew up a Kobe Bryant/Lakers fan. The Lakers used the No. 2 pick in the 2017 NBA Draft on Lonzo Ball, leaving Tatum to the Celtics at No. 3.
June 13, 2022 at 12:50 PM -
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The Cavaliers reportedly would've traded for Paul George if LeBron James committed long-term in 2018.
June 13, 2022 at 9:50 AM -
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At one point, Russell Westbrook returning to the Lakers next season was deemed impossible.
June 10, 2022 at 2:50 PM -
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"Defensively is where you're going to see us make our biggest leaps and bounds," Ham said.
June 6, 2022 at 5:50 PM -
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"You gotta be mentally strong not only on the court but off the court too because there's so much expectations."
June 4, 2022 at 7:50 AM