Spurs Bash Lakers 103-82 to Complete Series Sweep
Jeff Gross/Getty Image(LOS ANGELES) – Just like that, it was the end of a tumultuous season for the Los Angeles Lakers.
Tony Parker scored 23 points as the San Antonio Spurs completed its first-round sweep of the injury-plagued Lakers with a 103…
Spurs Cruise Past Lakers: Take 2-0 Series Lead
Ronald Martinez/Getty Images(SAN ANTONIO) — Tony Parker scored 24 of his game high 28 points in the second half, as he led the San Antonio Spurs past the Los Angeles Lakers 102-91, Wednesday night to take a 2-0 lead in their best-of-seven playoff ser…
Lakers Clinch Seven Seed in the West
Stephen Dunn/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Pau Gasol recorded his seventh triple-double of his career helping the Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Houston Rockets, 99-95 in overtime Wednesday night. The win clinches the Lakers the seventh seed in the Weste…
Lakers Top Spurs In First Game Without Kobe
NBA Via Los Angeles Lakers(LOS ANGELES) – Even without Kobe Bryant, the Los Angeles Lakers still find themselves just one win away from a trip to the postseason.
Dwight Howard scored 26 points and grabbed 17 rebounds to lead the Lakers to a 91-8…
Kobe Pours In 47 As Lakers Throttle Trail Blazers
NBA Via Los Angeles Lakers (PORTLAND, Ore.) – Kobe Bryant is trying to will the Lakers into the postseason.
He scored a season-high 47 points in 48 minutes to lead the Lakers to a 113-106 win over the Portland Trail Blazers Wednesday night at th…
Pau Gasol Out Indefinitely with Plantar Fascia
Christian Petersen/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Los Angeles Lakers forward Pau Gasol had an MRI on his right foot Wednesday revealing a tear in his plantar fascia. The 32-year-old Gasol will be examined Thursday by team doctors, who the Lakers say will…
Lakers Run Past Nets 92-83
NBA via Los Angeles Lakers(NEW YORK) – The Los Angeles Lakers continued to get back on track with an impressive short-handed 92-83 victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday night.
The Lakers (23-26) were without starters Dwight Howard and Metta …
Lakers Hang On Against Pistons
Christian Petersen/Getty Images(DETROIT) — Still no Dwight Howard for the Los Angeles Lakers, but they still picked up a road win.
Pau Gasol scored 23 points and the Lakers held on against the Detroit Pistons, 98-97 on Sunday.
Steve Nash had missed tw…
Lakers Snap Losing Streak, Rout Cavaliers 113-93
NBA via Los Angeles Lakers (LOS ANGELES) – Dwight Howard returned from a shoulder injury to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a 113-93 rout of the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday to snap a six-game losing streak.
Howard scored 22 points and grabbed 1…
L.A. Lakers Lose Howard, Gasol And Hill To Injuries
Harry How/Getty Images(EL SEGUNDO, Calif.) — Los Angeles Lakers center Dwight Howard has been ruled out indefinitely with a torn labrum in his right shoulder, an MRI revealed on Monday. The team said the six-time NBA All-Star initially suffered the in…
Lakers’ Pau Gasol Will Not Request A Trade
NBA via Los Angeles Lakers(LOS ANGELES) — Even though Los Angeles Lakers’ power forward Pau Gasol is having arguably the worst season of his career, he will not ask to be traded.Gasol has had a hard time fitting into head coach Mike D’Antoni’s system….
Lakers Overcome 18-Point Third Quarter Deficit to Beat Bobcats
Christopher Trotman/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Kobe Bryant scored 30, and the Los Angeles Lakers erased an 18-point late third quarter deficit, as the Lakers beat the Charlotte Bobcats 101-100.
“When they (Bobcats) started getting the lead our psyche…
Pau Gasol Will Continue to Start for Lakers
NBA via Los Angeles Lakers(NEW YORK) — Even though he’s struggled to pick up new head coach Mike D’Antoni’s system and despite an injury, Pau Gasol will continue to start for the Los Angeles Lakers.The Lakers, who came into the season with tons of hyp…
Kobe Bryant Calls Out Pau Gasol
NBA via Los Angeles Lakers(LOS ANGELES) — Los Angeles Lakers forward Pau Gasol is off to a slow start this season, and Kobe Bryant wants him to snap out of it.For the second time in five games, Gasol was on the bench during the final minutes of the fo…
Dwight Howard leads Lakers to First Win of Season
Los Angeles Lakers/NBA(LOS ANGELES) — After a rough 0-3 start to the season, the Los Angeles Lakers are finally in the win column.
Dwight Howard had 28 points and seven rebounds, while Kobe Bryant scored 15 to lead the Lakers to a 108-79 thumping of t…
Sandy’s Blackout Threatens to Destroy Trove of Medical Research
Michael Heiman/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Researchers at the shuttered NYU Langone Medical Center scrambled Wednesday to salvage years of research into heart disease, cancer and other diseases as well as priceless lab specimens that have been put in jeo…
Romney Trades Barbs for Optimism in First Speech Since Sandy
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(TAMPA, Fla.) — As President Obama headed to storm-ravaged New Jersey for a tour with Gov. Chris Christie, Mitt Romney was back on the stump in Florida Wednesday for his first full day of campaigning since Hurricane Sandy d…
New-Look Lakers Lose to Mavericks on Opening Night
NBA via Los Angeles Lakers(LOS ANGELES) — The Los Angeles Lakers were supposed to start their highly-anticipated season with a big win at home against the short-handed Mavericks. Instead, they were beaten by the Mavericks 99-91.Kobe Bryant scored 22 p…
Lakers’ Dwight Howard practices for First Time
Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images(EL SEGUNDO, Calif.) — The Los Angeles Lakers biggest offseason acquisition practiced for the first time, after having back surgery five months ago.
Dwight Howard was back on the court with his new team on Tuesday, but ha…
Lakers’ Kobe Bryant: It’s My Team
NBA via Los Angeles Lakers(EL SEGUNDO, Calif.) — Whose team is it? That is the question the five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant had to answer as the Los Angeles Lakers held their media day on Monday.
The Los Angeles Lakers enter the 2012-13 seaso…