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Members of the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers remember their league-record 33-game winning streak

Xavi Hernandez says the current Barcelona side will be remembered as one of the greatest sports teams of all time and will be talked about in the same breath as the legendary LA Lakers basketball team containing Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in the 1980s.

Hands up, we don't know the first thing about basketball (other than 'Ball through hoop = SCORE!', there's a lot of LeBron haters and that it's all just a slightly more effeminate version of netball), but we do know that LA Lakers' point guard Steve ...

Kobe Bryant taps me on the shoulder. "We doing this?" he asks. "Let's go." He's loose and confident, which essentially makes it a normal day in Bryant's world. Despite the unexpected wayward direction the Lakers' season has taken, Bryant is ebu...

Magic Johnson, Bill Simmons, Jalen Rose, and Michael Wilbon discuss Kobe Bryant's career and legacy on the evening he scored his 30,000th point in the NBA....

Despite Kobe Bryant's 42 points, the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 5 of their series on Monday night, ending the Lakers' season and setting up a matchup with the San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference Finals. If you d...

Shannon Cross chatted with Magic Johnson about his favorite moments from the ESPY Awards, his unforgettable 1992 All-Star Game performance and much more.

Handicapper Dave Tuley helps ESPN Insider examine the teams with the best odds to win the 2011-12 NBA title.

Blog | Conversation | December 23, 2011

Our NBA experts predict who will become the 2011-12 Pacific Division champion.

It looks like David Stern picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue. After a lengthy and contentious lockout, a brief antitrust skirmish, and the cancellation of 16 regular season games, the owners and the NBPA finally agreed to terms on a new coll...

Count Mark Cuban among the NBA owners who agrees with commissioner David Stern's decision to veto a three-team trade that would have landed Chris Paul with the Los Angeles Lakers.

Thanks to Friend of Grantland Daniel, who submitted this poster to us last week. "Some serious swag going on here," writes Daniel. James Worthy L.A. Law I absolutely want this. But I would probably settle for the mini-poster version. Do you...

If the Los Angeles Lakers want to advance to the Western Conference Finals they will have to make history. 98 times a team has been down 0-3 and not once has that team came back to win the series. Dirk Nowitzki was unstoppable in game 3 scoring 32 po...

Blog | May 07, 2011

By John Carroll The Mavericks beat the Lakers 93-81 in Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals. The Lakers looked like they had no answers for the Mavs. They will be forced to write history, by being only the 4th team in NBA history to drop th...

Blog | May 05, 2011

By John Carroll The LA Lakers gave away Game 1 in their series with the Dallas Mavericks on Monday night, losing 96-94. They had a 16 point lead with 10:39 left in the third quarter, and had complete control of the game. They then had a basketball...

Blog | May 03, 2011

By John Carroll Kobe Bryant and Dirk Nowitzki will be facing each other for the first time in the NBA playoffs when the Los Angeles Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks meet in the second round of the Western Conference playoffs. The Lakers won the NBA...

Blog | May 01, 2011