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The Los Angeles Lakers will be without Steve Nash for Friday night's pivotal Game 3 against the San Antonio Spurs.

Calling his play "bummish" and "noneffective" in the Los Angeles Lakers' 120-89 loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Friday, Metta World Peace said he "probably" will not play in Sunday's Game 4.

The Los Angeles Lakers will be without Steve Nash for Friday night's pivotal Game 3 against the San Antonio Spurs.

Los Angeles Lakers guard Steve Blake is out indefinitely after an ultrasound taken Thursday confirmed a moderate strain of his right hamstring.

The Lakers have been injured all season, but the Game 2 loss magnified the issue.

The Los Angeles Lakers head back to L.A. down 2-0 with three other injured guards -- Steve Nash, Steve Blake and Jodie Meeks -- to monitor.

After having San Antonio end his season several times before as a member of the Phoenix Suns, Steve Nash doesn't plan to go out without a fight when the Los Angeles Lakers face the Spurs in the first round of the playoffs this time around.

If the Los Angeles Lakers are going to crawl out of the hole they've dug for themselves with their current three-game losing streak, they'll have to do it without their All-Star big men in the middle.

Dwight Howard's surgery means USA Basketball will be without its presumed starting center this summer at the London Olympics. It won't be Andrew Bynum to the rescue in Superman's absence, either.

After a seven-game, 13-day absence, Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant will play Friday against the San Antonio Spurs.

Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant performed well in a series of on-court physical tests Tuesday before the Lakers' game against the Golden State Warriors, but will continue to sit out, missing his seventh straight game with a left shin injury.

The condition of Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant's inflamed left shin continues to improve, but Bryant will sit out his third straight game Wednesday against the San Antonio Spurs, Lakers coach Mike Brown said.

Lakers center Andrew Bynum has a bone bruise of his knee that the team says is not serious.

Lakers have managed to stay healthy in contrast to teams like Portland.

Spurs coach Gregg Popovich knows his team is the seventh seed in the West thanks to its two-game winning streak and wants no part of falling back into the eighth seed and a playoff matchup with the top-seeded Lakers.

Despite what numbers might say, Kobe Bryant always gets the last word.