As coronavirus cases have continued to rise throughout the last two weeks, the NBA has massaged the messaging behind its Disney World campus: With a controlled environment, aggressive testing and monitoring and limited personnel, the so-called bubble where the league is staging its restart could potentially be safer than the world around it. But there…
Lakers assistant Lionel Hollins won’t travel to Orlando due to health concerns — Press Telegram
For just about four months, Anthony Davis lived with the pain. After an injury during the opening slate of games last fall when he jammed his right shoulder, it was common, even for months afterward, to see the 6-foot-10 forward rolling the joint while wincing in pain. Davis gets these nagging injuries that are difficult…
Lakers focus on player health and injury prevention ahead of restart — Daily News
On Tuesday afternoon, Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka was back at work, in his office in El Segundo with a large clear window that overlooks the practice court. But the familiar surroundings belie the singular circumstances that Pelinka, the Lakers and the NBA find themselves in just a month out from a planned restart in…
Dwight Howard’s status remains uncertain as Lakers wrestle with NBA’s fluid plans to return — Press Telegram
A longtime LeBron James teammate is expected to join the Lakers for the NBA’s restart in Orlando next month. According to an ESPN report, the Lakers are finalizing a deal for J.R. Smith, the 34-year-old free-wheeling guard who has not played an NBA game since November of 2018. NBA teams have until July 1 to…
Lakers expected to sign veteran guard J.R. Smith for NBA’s restart, per report — Press Telegram
Love it or hate it, everyone wants a piece of Kobe even more so now that he is no longer with us.
Kobe Bryant’s Lakers Championship Ring He Gifted To His Dad Up For Auction — Cassius | born unapologetic | News, Style, Culture
The assistant professor at UCLA will implement educational programming on race and racism for the organization as the Lakers and Clippers officially recognize Juneteenth on Friday.
Lakers hire Karida Brown as director of racial equity and action — Pasadena Star News
The last decade of the NBA has seen players protest police brutality and gun violence through shirts, through social media posts, through calls for change. This time, with the nation rapt with attention on the social issues of race, Lakers’ guard Avery Bradley is one of the NBA players who wants to see more. ESPN…
Lakers’ Avery Bradley pitches NBA for more support for social issues, per report — Daily News
The NBA’s full-steam return from its hiatus next month has lost some momentum as players have begun expressing dissent in the last week over the plan to return to play in Orlando. And reports indicate that differences of opinion could divide the Lakers locker room as the team considers chasing its 17th championship. An ESPN…
Report: Lakers’ Avery Bradley among player coalition skeptical of NBA’s plan to return — Daily News
[ad_1] Lakers star Dwight Howard believes the return of the NBA would be an unwelcome distraction from the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement. The league is still negotiating the details of a 2020 restart over three months after the coronavirus pandemic forced the season to be suspended. There are said to be plans […]
Dwight Howard would give up NBA Championship for ‘unity of my people’ — The Latest News
With the volume increasing Friday on some players’ behind-the-scenes concerns about the NBA’s return-to-play plan, a pair of Lakers made it known that they’re not among the dissenters and at least one other member of the team reportedly spoke up about possibly sitting out the rest of the season because of the coronavirus pandemic and…
Lakers’ Kyle Kuzma, Jared Dudley indicate they’re not among NBA players reluctant to restart — Daily News
Mark J. Terrill/Associated PressSix-time All-Star forward Pau Gasol said Tuesday he’d like to finish his career with the Los Angeles Lakers or Spanish club Barcelona.”My intention is to play another season if the foot is OK, either in the NBA or in Europe,” he told reporters in Spain. “A final season with the Lakers is attractive,…
Pau Gasol Says Idea of Playing Final Season with Lakers ‘Is Attractive’ —
As 22 NBA teams prepare to restart their engines July 31, L.A.’s two-pronged championship chase picks up anew — in accordance with a wildly unprecedented plan that’s being unfurled in the midst of the national uprising happening during a global pandemic. “Basketball offers no vaccine, no cure,” Paul George said as he narrated a video…
Lakers, Clippers can again begin plotting route in NBA championship pursuits — Press Telegram
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