The Clippers could take something from their most irregular final regular-season meeting on Thursday in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, a 103-101 loss to the Lakers. “It’s a good lesson for the team,” Coach Doc Rivers said over Zoom. “You can’t make as many mistakes as we made in one game and be shorthanded.” The “self-inflicted…
Clippers see silver lining in otherwise sloppy loss to Lakers — Press Telegram
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — From the night this NBA season began, to the night it began again, the Lakers-Clippers has carried the feel of a heavyweight bout. In March, each team seemed trim, limber, ready to contend. After a hiatus unlike any in the sports’ history at four-and-a-half months long, the Lakers and Clippers…
Lakers win slugfest over Clippers in NBA restart to charge out of the hiatus — Press Telegram
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The NBA season is in overtime. For LeBron James, and by extension the Los Angeles Lakers, every one of those minutes is precious. There’s a clock running on James’ prime years, which have still unbelievably kept churning on. But in the NBA bubble on the Disney campus, those sands in…
LeBron James’ clock is ticking, but Lakers hope the restart is time enough to win it all — Daily News
The injury is not considered serious enough to keep him out for an extended period of time.
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. >> On any given night, Devin Dismang checks an online folder to see hours of footage he’ll have to comb through — sent by JaVale McGee. Inevitably this is a grind. For the next few hours, he’ll watch a lot of raw material: JaVale waking up, JaVale eating, JaVale getting time…
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. >> There was a time in March when LeBron James could not imagine playing without fans. “If I show up to the arena and there ain’t no fans in there?” he said at the time. “I ain’t playing.” Volumes of history were written in the intervening months, and the world changed.…
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The whereabouts of the last missing Laker are now clearer. As of Tuesday afternoon, Markieff Morris was en route to Disney World and preparing to begin quarantine on campus, Frank Vogel and the Lakers finally acknowledged. Pending negative test results, Morris should be able to join the team later in…
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2:47 PM ET There was a time when Los Angeles Lakers center Dwight Howard received adulation for wearing a cape in the dunk contest. Now he’s been disciplined for not wearing a mask in the NBA bubble. Howard says he was reported to the NBA’s “Campus Hotline,” set up to help protect players and staff […]
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The Los Angeles Lakers will not be entering the NBA’s resumed season fully healthy. Los Angeles reportedly will be without the services of four-time All-Star point guard Rajon Rondo for the next six to eight weeks after he underwent surgery Wednesday to repair a fractured thumb. Rondo injured his hand during a practice earlier this…
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ORLANDO, Fla. >> For now, Playoff Rondo is on hiatus. A right thumb fracture will shelve Rajon Rondo for six-to-eight weeks, a blow to the team’s depth that Frank Vogel acknowledged Monday was “a huge loss.” He’s scheduled to leave the NBA’s restart to have surgery this week and begin his rehabilitation outside of the…
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It seems Enes Kanter is not the only person to wear a Boston Celtics uniform to be underwhelmed by the accommodations at the NBA campus of the so-called Disney ‘bubble,’ though he certainly took it better than ex-Celtic floor general Rajon Rondo.
NBA players are staying in Disney-owned hotels within a short distance of the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex where the scrimmages, regular season and Playoffs will be held over the next few months.
The now- Los Angeles Laker point guard arrived with his current team a day later than the franchise he played for from 2006 until 2014, and took to social media to decry his short-term home on Instagram in a tweet relayed by Legion Hoops.
We’ll always leave the light on for him. 😉
— Motel 6 (@motel6) July 9, 2020
The Kentucky product compared his digs to a Motel 6 room — an economy chain popular with budget travelers — while mentioning the NBA, presumably to relay his displeasure.
In a humorous response, the social media account for Motel 6 left a comment in response to the tweet shared by Legion Hoops, noting that they’d “always leave the light on for him” anyways.
Dwight Howard will join the Lakers for the restart of the NBA season, he announced Monday night. The 34-year-old center went on CNN Tonight on Monday to confirm that he will play for the after about a month of speculation that he might sit out. One of the Lakers’ key rotation players, Howard’s commitment helps…
Dwight Howard says he’ll join Lakers for NBA restart — Press Telegram
The view from left field 