Amid all the Lakers’ personnel changes, Kobe Bryant maintained the team’s current makeup would be good enough to win a championship. But after the Lakers stumbled to a 3-3 record on their six-game trip, leaving their record at 16-12, it’s clear Bryant feels the need to publicly advocate the team bring in free-agent guard Gilbert…
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The Lakers’ 3-3 trip hardly will spark the same kind of rousing tributes the late Whitney Houston received during the 2012 Grammy Awards. The six awards given to 23-year-old British singer/songwriter Adele only further illustrates the value in youth and energy, something the Lakers severely lack. The Beach Boys’ performance at Staples Center shows the…
The Lakers are trying to avoid another failure against another undermanned team on their annual Grammy trip. They lead the Toronto Raptors at halftime, 54-46, despite losing more than half of an 18-point lead Sunday at Air Canada Centre.
The Lakers learned all about “Lin-sanity,” losing to the New York Knicks while second-year point guard Jeremy Lin ripped right through them. Lin had 38 points and seven assists for the Knicks, who won, 92-85, Friday at Madison Square Garden. The first Chinese-American player in the NBA, Lin has led the Knicks to a four…
Training camp hadn’t even begun in early December, so there was still time to toss around names of unsigned free agents. The Lakers even discussed Jeremy Lin, who had just been waived by Golden State so the Warriors could create salary cap space to offer a contract to free-agent center DeAndre Jordan. “I knew who…