Trade rumors involving the Los Angeles Lakers and Philadelphia 76ers were taken off the table after a Russell Westbrook and Ben Simmons swap were shot down. However, there’s been a lot of chatter in Hollywood about the Lakers acquiring John Wall in a trade with the Houston Rockets for Westbrook. […]
The Los Angeles Lakers are barely a break-even team, and they could make head coach Frank Vogel the scapegoat by firing him before the season ends. That’s the latest rumor swirling around in Hollywood; that Vogel might not survive the week if the Lakers don’t turn things around quickly, and […]
The Los Angeles Lakers (22-22) won exactly 50% of their games through the first half of the season, but oddsmakers at DraftKings updated their NBA win totals prop bet with the Lakers listed at 42.5 o/u wins to finish the season. The Lakers winning 43 games or more this season […]
Hollywood loves a scrumptious morsel of gossip, and there’s no shortage of trade rumors swirling around town involving the Los Angeles Lakers. The Lakers could trade point guard Russell Westbrook or bolster their frontline by acquiring Jerami Grant from the Detroit Pistons, or Myles Turner from the Indiana Pacers. The […]
The calendar may have changed to 2022, but the Brooklyn Nets are still the consensus favorite to win the 2022 NBA championship at +245 odds, according to a recent futures update by DraftKings. The Golden State Warriors are right behind them at +550 odds, with the defending-champion Milwaukee Bucks and […]
The good news is that the Los Angeles Lakers lost Anthony Davis for four weeks with a knee injury and it’s only an MCL sprain, which could have been a lot worse. The bad news is that the short-handed Lakers lost their best defender for a month. Davis made an […]
The trailer for the new HBO series “Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty,” about the 1980s Showtime Lakers dropped, and it’s a doozy. The series about the rise of the Lakers, created by Adam McKay (“The Big Short,” “Vice,” “Succession”), will debut on HBO in March 2022. McKay […]
Follow the money. With the first quarter of the NBA season in the books, the money is flowing heavily in the direction of the Brooklyn Nets (+240 odds) and Golden State Warriors (+600), as the top two betting favorites to win the 2022 NBA championship. The unstoppable Phoenix Suns won […]
The Phoenix Suns and Golden State Warriors are the two best teams in the NBA right now and both are battling for the Pacific Division crown. The Warriors are the current betting favorite at -110 odds while the Suns are +100 odds to win the Pacific Division in back-to-back seasons. […]
The NBA issued a one-game suspension to Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James after he bloodied Isaiah Stewart from the Detroit Pistons with an elbow to his face and Stewart went berserk. The Lakers visit the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden, but LeBron will miss Tuesday night’s game […]
Giannis “Greek Freak” Antetokounmpo lit up the Los Angeles Lakers for 47 points last night in a 109-102 victory. Antetokounmpo scored his highest total through the first 15 games of the season. It’s also the most points he’s erupted for since putting up 50 points against the Phoenix Suns in […]
Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James will sit out the next two games with an injury and could miss up to a week of action while he recovers from a mild abdominal strain. On tonight’s injury report, the LA Times revealed that LeBron is suffering from a strained rectus abdominis. […]
The NBA regular season tips off this evening as the league celebrates its 75th anniversary. The Brooklyn Nets are the consensus favorite to win the 2022 NBA championship at +200 odds, but the public has been heavily backing the Los Angeles Lakers and Golden State Warriors, with the defending champion […]
The NBA season begins next week and the Los Angeles Lakers are the favorite to win the Pacific Division at +105 odds, ahead of the Phoenix Suns (+205), Golden State Warriors (+425), and LA Clippers (+900). The Phoenix Suns shocked everyone on the West Coast last season when they posted […]
Trevor Ariza signed a one-year min-deal with the Los Angeles Lakers in the offseason, but he’ll have to wait a couple of months to join the team after he underwent arthroscopic debridement surgery to repair a lingering ankle injury. Ariza, 36, played for 10 teams during 17 seasons in the […]
The new NBA season tips off in a month and training camps open this week. And, before a single player takes the court, the betting public is making its presence known, backing the Brooklyn Nets at +200 odds and Los Angeles Lakers at +400 odds as favorites to win the […]
The Los Angeles Lakers made a couple of major roster moves when they signed center DeAndre Jordan and then sent Marc Gasol and a second-round draft pick to the Memphis Grizzlies in a trade that included the rights for Wang Zhelin. Jordan, 33, started in 43 games for the Brooklyn […]
Oddsmakers released win totals for the 2021-22 season and it’s not surprising to see the Brooklyn Nets as the consensus favorite, along with the defending champion Milwaukee Bucks, Los Angeles Lakers, Utah Jazz, and NBA Finals runner-up, Phoenix Suns, among the top five. DraftKings set the win totals for the […]
What’s a better way to celebrate the Christmas spirit than with five consecutive NBA games? The NBA released its Christmas Day schedule with a quintuple-header featuring the Atlanta Hawks at New York Knicks, Boston Celtics at Milwaukee Bucks, Golden State Warriors at Phoenix Suns, Brooklyn Nets at Los Angeles Lakers, […]
Jonesing for your pro hoops fix? The new NBA season tips off on Oct. 19 on TNT with a star-studded doubleheader featuring the defending champion Milwaukee Bucks hosting the Brooklyn Nets in Beer City, followed by the Los Angeles Lakers and the Golden State Warriors in Hollywood. The NBA intends […]
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