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The day after his Oklahoma City Thunder was knocked out of the second round of the playoffs by the Memphis Grizzlies, Kevin Durant vowed to learn from this season, not lament it.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. is the highest-earning athlete in American sports for the second straight year.

For the Mavericks to make the Chris Paul/Dwight Howard combo pipedream a reality, they'd have to hire a hypnotist. How else would they be able to convince Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak to agree to a sign-and-trade deal that would ship Howar...

It is time for LA to think about the summer of 2014 and the next era of Lakers basketball.

Story | Conversation | April 29, 2013

Well that was unexpected. No, not the Los Angeles Lakers losing in the first round to the San Antonio Spurs; it was a 2-7 matchup, after all, and no NBA team has lost after being up 3-0 (as the San Antonio Spurs were). But who, when the Lakers ...

The Lakers' band of no-names drags them to finish. The Spurs' band of no-names helps fuel title hopes.

A headache for his coach, Kobe Bryant's tweets during a Lakers playoff game were a hit at the NBA office.

LeBron James' longest string of missed games in his NBA career was five straight, and that was because of a finger injury more than five years ago.

In case you were out feeling agnostic toward piña coladas, but still got caught in the rain, here's what you missed in sports on Wednesday: Kobe Bryant was en fuego, scoring 47 points as the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Portland Trail Blazer...

Chris Broussard offers his award winners for 2012-13 NBA season, including Damian Lillard for Rookie of the Year.

Story | Conversation | April 11, 2013

Carmelo Anthony now tops the NBA's scoring race and its most popular jerseys list.

In case you were busy learning how boring Nevada is outside of Las Vegas, here's what you missed in sports on Tuesday. Texas's Yu Darvish was one out away from a perfect game, but he was forced to settle for a near shutout as Marwin Gonzalez sin...

Bradford Doolittle examines four NBA teams -- the Lakers, 76ers, Bulls and Heat -- that will need to make franchise-altering decisions before next summer if they hope to land a big free agent in 2014.

Story | Conversation | April 03, 2013

On the night that Shaquille O'Neal's jersey was retired, the "Big Aristotle" again took a shot at current Lakers star Dwight Howard.

Everyone in the Timberwolves locker room on Wednesday night believed Kobe Bryant got away with a foul that allowed the Los Angeles Lakers to hold on to a much-needed victory in Minnesota.

Their winning streak finally over, the Miami Heat did on Thursday what they had planned to do all along.