Five takeaways from a Game 2 loss to the Nuggets in which the Lakers led by 20 points early in the third quarter. Game 3 is Thursday night at Crypto.com Arena.
LeBron James scored 30 points, and the Lakers avoided playoff elimination with a 119-108 win over the Nuggets in Game 4 of their first-round series.
Here are five takeaways from the Lakers’ 114-103 loss in Game 1 of their first-round playoff matchup with the Denver Nuggets. One of the simplest ways the Lakers could turn around their fate from their multiseason struggles with the Nuggets would be for LeBron James and Anthony Davis, together, to outplay Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray. Saturday in Game 1, the Lakers’ stars combined for 59 points on 56.4% shooting from the field while grabbing 20 rebounds and dishing out 13 assists. Jokic and...
LeBron James' anger boiled over after the Lakers' latest loss to the Nuggets, but his anger wasn't centered on his team blowing a 20-point lead to the defending champions.
Jamal Murray: Champion. Cold-blooded. Game 2 hero. After struggling with his shot throughout Monday's Game 2 of the Denver Nuggets' first-round playoff series
James has entered the transfer portal and will test the waters for the NBA Draft
James is entering the transfer portal and the NBA Draft after shining for the Trojans
Former ESPN columnist and FS1 personality Jason Whitlock is making a bold prediction for LeBron James and his son Bronny after the Los Angeles Lakers season came to an end. On Tuesday’s episode of “Fearless,” the podcast host compared LeBron James and the Lakers to a failing marriage and the way the franchise plans on fixing it by bringing up …
Here are six takeaways from the Lakers’ 101-99 loss to Denver in Game 2 Monday night that put them in a 2-0 hole in their best-of-seven first-round playoff series. There was a bit of cruelty late Monday night in Denver, the Lakers’ and the Nuggets’ late-game fates summed up by a pair of shots with wildly different degrees of difficulty. First, with the score tied, LeBron James stood all alone at the three-point line. Whether or not Kentavious Caldwell-Pope got pushed or got his feet tangled up...
Winning 47 games and surviving the Play-In Tournament, by most standards,
The collapse ended with a punch to the face, a blow to the ears, a dagger through the heart. The collapse of a million Laker mistakes ended with one Denver Nuggets masterpiece, the ugliness of pretenders trumped by the beauty of champions. Jamal Murray hit a fadeaway jumper at the buzzer, Ball Arena shook with an avalanche of glee, Anthony Davis fell backward into the Denver bench in desperation, and it was over. This game. This nightmare. This series? On a night they held a dominant 20-point...
"I don't understand what's going on in the replay center, to be honest," Lakers star LeBron James said following his team's Game 2 loss in Denver.