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Kobe Bryant had surgery Saturday afternoon to repair the torn Achilles tendon in his left leg and his recovery timetable is expected to take 6-9 months.

Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant suffered what the team called a probable torn Achilles tendon during Friday night's win against the Golden State Warriors.

LOS ANGELES -- Metta World Peace had played possibly his last game with the Los Angeles Lakers when he suffered a torn meniscus in his left knee in late March. The team listed his recovery time at a minimum of six weeks, a date well past the regul...

LOS ANGELES -- Kobe Bryant will always be associated with the number 81, and with good reason. But here are two more digits tied to Bryant that are just as eye-popping: 79. As in 79 seconds, the total amount of time Bryant has sat in the Los Angel...

Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash will be in the lineup when the Los Angeles Lakers play the Sacramento Kings, Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni said after shootaround Saturday.

Kobe Bryant saw Serge Ibaka's below-the-belt hit Sunday on Blake Griffin and thought that some retaliation was in order.

LOS ANGELES -- The first half of the Los Angeles Lakers' season finally, mercifully came to an end Thursday. Actually, it's more like 65 percent of the season is in the books, but the team likes to look at the All-Star break as the midpoint of the...

The reality of a failed season is starting to hit the Lakers fast.

The Clippers have not had much success since the franchise moved to Los Angeles in 1984. They have qualified for the playoffs just five times in that span and have never made it out of the second round.

MIAMI -- If Sunday's Los Angeles Lakers-Miami Heat matchup had any less meaning because of Los Angeles' sub-.500 record, nobody informed the teams that was the case. Even though Miami came into the game winners of four in a row and owners of the b...

Dwight Howard will miss the Los Angeles Lakers' game at Detroit on Sunday because of his ailing shoulder.

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. -- It was fitting that of all the players Kobe Bryant could have passed to move into third place on the all-time free throws made list on Friday, it was Oscar Robertson. Bryant is playing a lot like "Big O" these days. Rober...

Los Angeles Lakers star center Dwight Howard has been diagnosed with a sore right shoulder and will be listed as day to day.

The Los Angeles Lakers' all-important seven-game road trip started off by adding insult -- a 92-86 loss to the Phoenix Suns after blowing a 13-point fourth-quarter lead -- to injury, with Dwight Howard aggravating the torn labrum in his right shoulder.

Dwight Howard re-aggravated the torn labrum in his right shoulder late in the first half of the Los Angeles Lakers' 106-93 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies on Wednesday night and did not return to the game.

CHICAGO -- Perhaps in a move by the NBA to capitalize on the immense global popularity of Kobe Bryant -- who could be playing his final season in 2013-14 -- the Los Angeles Lakers will participate in the China Games next preseason, according to multi...