Luke Walton has agreed to be the Los Angeles Lakers' new head coach, with the sides agreeing to a multiyear deal Friday, the team said.
Walton spent nine seasons with the Lakers, winning two championship rings as a smart, steady contributor. Three years after his retirement, the 36-year-old Southern California native is back to become the 26th head coach in franchise history.
"I loved everything about my time at Golden State and learning from Steve (Kerr)," Walton told
Just hours before Kobe Bryant took the court for the very last time, the champion’s wife, Vanessa Bryant spoke out.
Bryant posted a long message on Instagram Wednesday afternoon detailing her family’s sacrifice during Bryant’s journey in the NBA. The beauty also not only wrote how thrilled she is for the athlete to be “home more often,” but expressed how thankful she is that their family “managed to persevere against the odds” despite the “ups and downs.”
Read Bryan’s entire post below:
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Kobe Bryant finished up his NBA career in style, scoring 60 points in leading the Lakers back to a stunning 101-96 win over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday at Staples Center in Los Angeles.
The Lakers trailed by double figures at halftime and throughout much of the second half, but Bryant sank some vintage spectacular shots down the stretch to lead the Lakers to the win.
The game marked the 25th time Bryant scored at least 50 points in his career and the sixth time he eached 60 points. He finishe
After the first returns of 2016 NBA All-Star voting, Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant is leading the pack by a wide margin.
Bryant already has 719,235 votes -- well ahead of Golden State Warriors starStephen Curry (510,202), the next-highest vote-getter, and more than twice as many as Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James (357,937). Bryant has more votes than James and Kevin Durant combined.
Following the Lakers' 94-84, Christmas night loss to the Los Angeles Clippers, Bryant said he was mor
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Kobe Bryant always studied Michael Jordan’s game. That continued even to his retirement letter.
Kobe Bryant announced his retirement at the end of the season via an open letter to basketball, posted at The Players Tribune. It was a poignant way for one of the NBA’s greatest players to tell the world that he’s hanging it up.
You know who also chose an open letter to basketball to signal his retirement? Michael Jordan. On April 20, 2003, Nike took out a full-page ad
Phil Jackson has been remarkably open and frank about his tumultuous first season in New York and his past stints with the Bulls and Lakers in a series of interviews with Charlie Rosen for ESPN, and in an interview published Monday, Jackson recounts how difficult his relationship with Kobe Bryant was at times.
In February, Kobe Bryant reflected on his career in an interview with GQ, and argued that he could have left the Lakers before signing a contract extension in 1999 and taken over the
The Los Angeles Lakers have offered their head-coaching job to Byron Scott, according to league sources.
The two sides are now in negotiations on a contract.
The Lakers made Scott a verbal offer on Thursday after Scott spoke with owner Jim Buss. Scott and his representatives are reviewing the Lakers’ offer.
Scott, a former Lakers star who won three titles playing next to Magic Johnson, has long been the front-runner for the job.
The Lakers have been without a coach since Mike D’Antoni resig
The Lakers finally got the point guard who intrigued them over the years.
They initially tried to sign Jeremy Lin as an undrafted rookie in 2010 but he chose Golden State for the same amount of money. (It was closer to home.)
In a less-publicized action, the Lakers put in a waiver claim for Lin when Golden State dropped him in 2011. Houston had a worse record than the Lakers and was awarded him.
But the Lakers acquired him in a trade with the Rockets this month.
“This time, we got Jeremy Lin
Miami would like to see Chris Bosh, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Carmelo Anthony in the same uniform again — a Heat uniform.
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The Miami Heat’s immediate focus remains overcoming a 2-1 NBA Finals deficit to the San Antonio Spurs, but discussions have begun within the organization about trying to grow their so-called Big Three into a Big Four, according to sources close to the situation.
Sources told ESPN.com that Heat officials and the team’s leading players
Kobe Bryant, pictured during a game in Arizona on January 15, 2014, will miss the NBA all-star game after the Lakers say he is still suffering from pain and swelling in his knee (Getty/AFP/File, Christian Petersen)
Kobe Bryant, speaking publicly for the first time since Mike D’Antoni resigned from the Los Angeles Lakers, expressed apathy about the turn of events while saying he would, though, like to have an active role in choosing a new coach.
“Honestly I didn’t care,” Bryant said Thursday
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The Los Angeles Lakers told Dwight Howard he could be the future of the franchise.
But now that Superman has flown his talents to the Houston Rockets, there's not a panicked Lakers fan in sight. Nor should there be.
The proud purple-and-gold nation knows that there may well be a letdown in the short-term now that their disastrous one-year experiment with Howard is officially over. It also knows that better days still lie ahead in a not-so distant future.
With a $70-
 Legendary Los Angeles Lakers owner and real estate magnate Jerry Buss passed away on Monday, Feb. 18 due to complications from cancer, according to the Los Angeles Times'Mike Bresnahan. He was 80.
Los Angeles Times' David Wharton confirmed Bresnahan's report: "Buss died Monday of an undisclosed form of cancer at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, according to his longtime spokesman, Bob Steiner."
The Lakers organization later confirmed Buss' passing on Twitter and also released a statement on t
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