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2020 NBA restart key dates: Playoffs, draft and free-agency schedule
What is the new NBA schedule for the playoffs, draft, free agency and other key events? As players return to their home markets and decide whether to participate in the NBA restart, teams are narrowing their list of travel personnel to the approved 37 people per team. That will be only one of many steps […]
Continue readingLakers’ Avery Bradley opts out of NBA restart, cites family concerns
Bradley, who started 44 games for the Lakers this season, informed team management of his decision. The Lakers will be able to sign a replacement player for Bradley, with free-agent scorer JR Smith emerging as a leading candidate, sources told ESPN. At the forefront of Bradley’s decision to remain with his family is the well-being […]
Continue readingSports Academy retires ‘Mamba’ name out of respect to Kobe Bryant
The Mamba Sports Academy was launched in 2018 as a joint athletic-training business venture with Bryant and Sports Academy CEO Chad Faulkner. The name was changed back to the Sports Academy on Tuesday, with a new website and logo rebranding. Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, were among nine people who died in a helicopter […]
Continue readingSuns, Clippers dominate NBA 2K Players Tournament quarterfinals
After quarterfinal action Thursday on ESPN2, four players came out victorious in NBA 2K20 play: Suns guard Devin Booker, Clippers big man Montrezl Harrell, Phoenix center Deandre Ayton and Clippers guard Patrick Beverley. Come Saturday on ESPN, Booker will face Harrell and Ayton will face Beverley, with the winners earning a final berth in what’s […]
Continue readingTen NBA things I like and don’t like, including the Spurs’ new threat
Turns out, the perception that Gregg Popovich — increasingly cantankerous about the tyranny of 3s — hemmed in Aldridge was incorrect. After last season, Popovich approached Aldridge and suggested the team would need him to shoot more 3s, Aldridge told ESPN.com. The Spurs ranked sixth in points per possession last season, largely on the back […]
Continue readingHow Frank Vogel won over the Lakers and their superstars
Last May, alongside general manager Rob Pelinka, Vogel took the podium on the team’s practice court. Just hours earlier, Magic Johnson had accused Pelinka of backstabbing him during his rocky tenure as the Lakers’ president, a post Johnson had relinquished the previous month during an impromptu hallway resignation. Johnson’s departure was soon followed by the […]
Continue readingLakers’ Rajon Rondo has finger fracture; Anthony Davis misses third straight
Davis suffered his injury, which the Lakers are calling a gluteus maximus contusion, taking a hard fall on his lower back after trying to block a shot by Julius Randle of the New York Knicks last week. Rondo suffered a nondisplaced volar plate avulsion fracture to his right ring finger in Saturday’s victory over the […]
Continue readingLakers’ LeBron James out vs. Thunder with flu-like symptoms
LeBron James was ruled out because of an illness and flu-like symptoms and Danny Green also missed the game because of a sore right hip, the team announced. Anthony Davis, who missed Friday’s win in Dallas because of a bruised buttocks injury suffered earlier in the week versus New York, was also ruled out. The […]
Continue readingKnicks F Bobby Portis draws $25,000 fine from league after flagrant foul in loss to Lakers
The incident, for which Portis was assessed a flagrant foul 2 and ejected, occurred with 8:02 remaining in the second quarter of the Knicks’ 117-87 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night at Staples Center. The Lakers led the Knicks 39-30 with 8:02 remaining in the second quarter when Kentavious Caldwell-Pope streaked in […]
Continue readingSources: Lakers set to guarantee Dwight Howard contract for remainder of season
Point proven. The Lakers have until the 2 p.m. PT deadline Tuesday to waive Howard’s contract, the veteran’s minimum $2.56 million, but will not do so, league sources told ESPN, thus guaranteeing Howard for the rest of the season. Tuesday is just a formality, of course. Howard cemented his worth to the Lakers months ago, […]
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