LeBron James and the Lakers avoid getting swept by the Nuggets for the second straight year, while also snapping a losing skid against the defending champions since 2022
With playoff spots at stake, Lakers-Pelicans and Warriors-Kings matchups kick things off Tuesday night. Who will move on? Our experts make their picks for the play-in games.
LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers are staying in New Orleans for a couple more days. Stephen Curry and Golden State will head back to Sacramento to face elimination again. And the Miami Heat are back in the play-in, which started their run to the NBA Finals last year.
LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers are staying in New Orleans for a couple more days. Stephen Curry and Golden State will head back to Sacramento to face elimination again. And the Miami Heat are back in the play-in, which started their run to the NBA Finals last year.The play-in field is set. On Tuesday, it’s the Lakers facing the Pelicans for a No. 7 seed in the Western Conference, then the Warriors and the Kings in an elimination game. On Wednesday, it’s the Heat going to...
The NBA released its Last 2 Minute report for Game 2 of the series between the Philadelphia 76ers and New York Knicks on Tuesday, and it admitted several critical errors. The report states that Knicks guard Josh Hart fouled Sixers star Tyrese Maxey with 24.9 seconds remaining on the clock. A foul was not called […]
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers are staying in New Orleans for a couple more days. Stephen Curry and Golden State will head back to Sacramento to face elimination again. And the Miami Heat are back in the play-in, which started their run to the NBA Finals last
Five-time NBA champion Magic Johnson is weighing in on the Los Angeles Lakers postseason prospects. The Lakers finished the regular season ranked eight in the Western Conference standings, which earned the team a spot in the NBA Play-In tournament. LeBron James and the Lakers traveled to New Orleans this week for a play-In matchup with the seventh-seeded Pelicans. A Lakers win would earn the team a spot in the first round, where Los Angeles would take on the reigning champion Denver Nuggets....
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There was a feeling around the arena and in the media room Saturday night that the Lakers had fired their best punch and that, maybe, it just wasn’t good enough. But fresh eyes on Game 1 combined with some time gave coach Darvin Ham and the Lakers the ability to properly contextualize what happened in their 114-103 loss to the Denver Nuggets in their first-round Western Conference playoff series. “We got great looks that we just didn't knock down. Shots that we've been knocking down. And then...
It must have dawned on Harrison Barnes at some point in the final few minutes of Sacramento’s clinical beatdown of Golden State, as he was guarding the shell of Klay Thompson, that he’d been in this place before. And he had—three times. Barnes owned the three worst shooting nights in recorded Warriors playoff history going
With a seemingly more favorable path as the No 8 seed, the question has