LOS ANGELES — LeBron James scored 42 points in a successful return to the Drew League while teaming up with DeMar DeRozan for a 104-102 win in L.A.’s famed pro-am basketball league Saturday. Longtime Drew League commissioner Dino Smiley told ESPN he expected Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving to play in the game preceding James … Read more
The Drew League, a pro-am summer basketball league based in Los Angeles, has had its share of NBA players show up to dazzle fans and opponents alike. But, for the first time since 2011, when the NBA was shut down due to a lockout, LeBron James took the floor to put on a show … … Read more
On Friday night, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnaroski reported some intriguing news about Los Angeles Lakers guard Russell Westbrook. Woj: “After 14 years, Lakers star Russell Westbrook and his agent Thad Foucher of Wasserman have parted ways, Foucher tells ESPN” Westbrook was drafted with the fourth overall pick in the 2008 NBA Draft by the Seattle SuperSonics (now … Read more
Thomas Bryant reached an agreement with the Los Angeles Lakers on a one-year veteran’s minimum contract, according to reports from Chris Haynes early Wednesday morning. Entering his fifth NBA season, Bryant will earn a base salary of $2,133,278 and become an unrestricted free agent after the 2022-2023 season. According to Haynes, Bryant will be given … Read more
Free agent forward Juan Toscano-Anderson is leaving the Golden State Warriors and signing a 1-year / minimum contract with the Los Angeles Lakers. The move for Toscano-Anderson is not entirely surprising, as the Warriors were reportedly not interested in bringing him back. While the Bay Area native did not have a big role during the … Read more
Free agent guard Malik Monk is signing a two-year, $19 million deal to join the Sacramento Kings, his brother and agent, Marcus Monk, told ESPN’s Dave McMenamin. Monk, 24, was one of the rare bright spots for a disappointing Los Angeles Lakers team last season, averaging career highs in minutes (28.1), points (13.8), assists (2.9) … Read more
LOS ANGELES — The Lakers opened up free agency Thursday with a flurry of moves aimed at getting younger, more athletic and defensive minded in a clear divergence from their roster building a year ago that added big-name veterans and led to one of the most disappointing seasons in franchise history. L.A. signed Lonnie Walker … Read more
Walk into an NBA front office in 2022, and you won’t have to go far before you spot a treatise on management theory resting on a bookshelf. Concepts like organizational culture and asset management have taken hold. League executives devote a lot of thought into forming an identity for their basketball operations shops. The NBA … Read more
Indiana Pacers rookie Bennedict Mathurin should be on notice for his first meeting with the Los Angeles Lakers later this season. LeBron James has never been one to take too kindly to trash talk. Just prior to the 2022 NBA Draft, Mathurin began talking about his excitement to compete against the Lakers forward. “A lot … Read more
Did Bradley Beal actually want to stay in D.C.?Image: Getty Images Bradley Beal was expected to be the crown jewel of free agency this offseason. It was beginning to feel like things were falling into place for that to happen on Tuesday when it was reported by Michael Scotto of Hoopshype that Beal would be … Read more