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Lakers Unwilling To Trade Draft Pick For Ramon Sessions

With each and every trade rumor the Los Angeles have been associated with this season comes have heaping helping of salt. In the case of Chris Paul it was a spoon full of castor oil. But since then the…Read More

Lakers Won’t Get Into Rajon Rondo Sweepstakes

It looks like Danny Ainge still hasn’t given up on trading Rajon Rondo. Seemingly within hours of the lockout being lifted there were reports of the Celtics looking to move their lone young talent.…Read More

Trading For Michael Beasley A Luxury Lakers Can’t Afford

  According to ESPN’s Chris Broussard the Los Angeles Lakers turned down a trade offer from the Minnesota Timberwolves that would have sent talented but troubled forward Michael Beasley to the…Read More

Kobe Bryant, Derek Fisher Lead Players-Only Meeting

You don’t need to be an NBA insider to know there is some serious drama simmering in the Los Angeles Lakers organization. In the last week we’ve seen Metta World Peace and Mike Brown at odds over…Read More

J.R. Smith Expected To Sign With Knicks

Once again the Los Angeles Lakers have lost on an opportunity to add some much needed fire power to the roster. Then again, with J.R. Smith likely headed to New York the Lake Show might have also been…Read More

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Lakers Send Devin Ebanks to D-League

A season that was looking like a step forward in the progression of Devin Ebanks is turning into another…Read More

Rumor: Kobe Bryant Reached Out To Gilbert Arenas

It is impossible to know what is truly going on behind those closed doors down in El Segundo where the…Read More

Derrick Caracter Waived By Lakers

After 4 games in the D-League the Lakers have seen the last of Derrick Caracter. Today the team waived…Read More

Mike Brown Confirms Lakers Interest In Gilbert Arenas

Rumored for the last few days now, Mike Brown has confirmed that the Lakers have had contact with unemployed…Read More

Lakers Looking To Trade For Ramon Sessions

One man’s trash is another’s treasure. What’s true in life is equally truthful in the NBA. Currently…Read More

Lakers Better Suited To Trade For Dwight Howard

When David Stern denied the Lakers the services of Chris Paul most could read between the lines of Dan Gilbert’s e-mail as to why that moved didn’t go down. In the end the Hornets did deal Paul and…Read More

Lakers Back Off Chris Paul Trade Talks

Just as quickly as the Lakers seemed to have landed Chris Paul they were denied his services and now seem unlikely to pursue any trade to acquire the point guard. After resubmitting a trade for league…Read More

Kevin Garnett Could Have Been a Laker

Back in the summer of ’05 myself and a few friends decided to roll down to Long Beach so we could get our first look at the Lakers’ top pick in the draft, a young man named Andrew Bynum. We were all…Read More

Leaving Los Angeles: Javaris Crittenton Arrested, Heading Back to Atlanta

Javaris Crittenton was in Los Angeles while Atlanta PD scoured the city looking for the prime suspect in a shooting that resulted in the death of a 22-year-old mother of four. Notice the past tense of…Read More

Luke Walton Using Lockout to Prep for Post Hoops Career

Some NBA players are planning on taking their talents overseas during the NBA work stoppage. Others are finding creative ways to make the most of their time off. Then there’s Luke Walton who is taking…Read More

China in Play for Kobe Bryant

Forget about Europe. Kobe Bryant was as likely to play in Turkey as Donald Sterling is to be named owner of the year. It always made much more sense for KB24 to take his talents to China. Bryant’s stature…Read More

Report: Kobe Bryant Involved in Altercation at a Church

According to the Los Angeles Times the San Diego PD are investigating an alleged altercation involving Kobe Bryant at church in Carmel Valley. The report claims Bryant confronted a man whom was assumed…Read More

There Will Be No Turkish Delight for Kobe Bryant

Maybe now we can finally put all of the Besiktas speculation to rest. From the start it seemed highly unlikely Kobe Bryant would join Deron Williams in Turkey. At every turn there was an obstacle. First…Read More

Ron Artest to Star in a British Soap Opera?

By now you must know that the Cheshire Jets of the British Basketball League are hot on the trail of Ron Artest…soon to be Metta World Peace.  Maybe you heard that they’ve upped the ante by offering…Read More

Kobe, Besiktas Talks Back On?

As far as news stories that just won’t die this whole Kobe Bryant to Besiktas thing has a bit of a Jason Voorhees quality to it. We’re nowhere near Favre status on this ordeal but it is getting a little…Read More

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