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Derek Fisher informed police that his Los Angeles home was burglarized and more than $300,000 worth of jewelry had been stolen, including his five NBA Championship rings, reports TMZ Sports. The NBA vet reported a burglary at his home Monday morning, telling police he left the home at 7:30 a.m., and found that someone had […]

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EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — In case you missed the latest episode of the NBA’s version of As The World Turns, here’s the latest: Lakers rookie D’Angelo Russell filmed his teammmate Nick ‘Swaggy P’ Young admitting to cheating on his fiancée, rapper Iggy Azalea. That 30-second recording was leaked to a blog and it exploded […]

Two months after being found unconscious in a Las Vegas brothel, Odom has reportedly taken his first steps.

As the sports world continues to process the sudden news of Kobe Bryant’s plans to retire from the NBA at the end of the current…

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It’s been a long time coming and most believed it would never happen, but Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant have squashed their years long feud. The LA Times reports the resolution to the beef, which started 11 years after O’Neal was traded to the Miami Heat after playing for the Los Angeles Lakers, occurred during […]

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Laker player Wayne Ellington Jr. is on indefinite leave from the Lakers after the murder of his father in Philadelphia. The 26-year-old guard got a text from his father earlier that evening before the game. By the time the game was over, his father was dead, the victim of a gunshot wound to head in […]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles Lakers rookie forward Julius Randle is expected to miss the rest of the season after undergoing surgery on his broken right leg. The seventh overall pick out of Kentucky broke his leg in the fourth quarter of his NBA debut in Los Angeles’ season-opening loss to the Houston Rockets […]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Lakers have waited nearly three months to hire a new coach, and they’re apparently making Byron Scott wait a few more days. Scott said this weekend that he has been hired by the Lakers, but the club insisted Sunday that no deal has been reached. Scott, who won […]

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Kobe Bryant feels great, would welcome Byron Scott as coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, would love to play alongside free agent Carmelo Anthony and is pleased with the moves of the team’s front office so far. At least that’s how the All-Star guard presented things at UC Santa Barbara […]

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Oprah joins basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson at his Los Angeles home to talk about the retired NBA star’s historic career with the L.A. Lakers, his HIV diagnosis that shook the world and the person who helped him get through one of the most challenging times of his life.  He also talks about the business […]

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EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — The Los Angeles Lakers signed Kobe Bryant to a two-year contract extension Monday, securing the fourth-leading scorer in NBA history into his 20th season with the franchise. Bryant hasn’t played this season while recovering from surgery on his torn Achilles tendon in April, but the Lakers didn’t wait to renew […]

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Former Philadelphia 76ers and now LA Lakers player Nick Young is working hard to clear his name in the current rape charges he’s facing. Young recently filed documents refuting the allegations of the woman who’s suing him. His claim is that his DNA doesn’t match DNA collected from the woman by the police. In May, […]