Readers of the L.A. Times Sports section express their opinions on the Lakers' problems, Reggie Bush and the Heisman Trust, and Caitlin Clark.
The Lakers, in what could be their final off day of the season, watched film and tried to avoid the mistakes of the past while remaining hopeful for the future. Easier said than done. After leading by double digits in each of the first three games of their first-round Western Conference playoff series against the Denver Nuggets, the proof, to some degree, is there. The results, though, are not. “Guys are irritated, frustrated, fed up, ready to make a change in terms of not continuously going...
“It’s great to have a lead, but you have to continue to do what got you the lead in the first place,” Coach Darvin Ham says of the pace of play dropping in the second half of Games 1 and 2 – something that favored the Nuggets.
“It’s great to have a lead, but you have to continue to do what got you the lead in the first place,” Coach Darvin Ham says of the pace of play dropping in the second half of Games 1 and 2 – something that favored the Nuggets.
“It’s great to have a lead, but you have to continue to do what got you the lead in the first place,” Coach Darvin Ham says of the pace of play dropping in the second half of Games 1 and 2 – something that favored the Nuggets.
For those who feel the Kings-Oilers playoff series is a lot of deja vu all over again, Quinton Byfield says you’ve got it all wrong. For the third year in a row the two teams split the first two games of their first-round NHL playoff series, with the Kings evening things Wednesday on Anze Kopitar’s goal 2:07 into overtime of Game 2. So for the third year in a row, the teams will reconvene in Los Angeles on Friday tied at a game apiece. The last two times that happened, Edmonton went on to win...
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...
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...
The NBA community has lost one of its own. Darius Morris, a former Los Angeles Lakers point guard who also played with several other teams in the league about a decade ago, has died, according to
Darius Morris, a former NBA player who played for teams such as the Los Angeles Lakers, has passed away.
Los Angeles, we have a problem.
Winning 47 games and surviving the Play-In Tournament, by most standards,