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When Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak called Phil Jackson to tell him the Lakers were hiring Mike D'Antoni instead of him he responded the only way he knew how. "I laughed," Jackson says.

The greatest season in Los Angeles Clippers franchise history wasn't supposed to end this way. A season in which the Clippers won a club-record 56 games, 17 straight, their first division title and swept the Los Angeles Lakers ended with a far too...

LOS ANGELES -- There have been many times over the course of this season when one could have wished to be a fly on the wall in the Los Angeles Lakers' locker room, their training room or even the Buss family living room. The moments are far too ma...

LOS ANGELES -- It was hard for Andrew Goudelock not to smile as he sat in front of his locker, even after the Los Angeles Lakers' 120-89 loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Friday night. He wasn't smiling because he scored 20 points and was the leadi...

LOS ANGELES -- Last week, before the Lakers' already nightmarish season seemingly veered completely off the tracks with Kobe Bryant's ruptured Achilles tendon, Bryant was still confident that the Lakers wouldn't just make the playoffs but that they ...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Dwight Howard was the last player on the court after practice Saturday. He is almost always the last player on the court. It might not show, but he spends hours working on his free throws with Lakers assistant coach Chuck ...

LOS ANGELES -- Kobe Bryant knew exactly what had happened the moment he crumbled to the floor. He didn't want to believe it but the feeling was unmistakable as he tried to get up and put pressure on his left foot. As Pau Gasol stood in front ...

LOS ANGELES -- Now comes the hard part. Last week the Los Angeles Clippers clinched their first 50-win season, the division title and swept the season series against their in-building rival, the Los Angeles Lakers. They accomplished all of th...

EL SEGUNDO, Calf. -- Kobe Bryant isn't used to scoreboard watching this time of year. He isn't used to having his playoff destiny rest in the hands of another team. But with five games left in the regular season for the Los Angeles Lakers, that's exa...

Lakers forward Metta World Peace said he will start Tuesday night when the Lakers play the New Orleans Hornets, just 12 days after undergoing surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee that was supposed to sideline him at least six weeks.

LOS ANGELES -- The red shirts rested on every chair in the Los Angeles Clippers' locker room after the game. The Pacific Division championship shirts read "Can't Stop Los Angeles" in big bold letters and in small print on the left read, "2013 Div...

LOS ANGELES -- It was the most important regular-season game in Los Angeles Clippers franchise history. With a win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday, the Clippers would win their first Pacific Division title, clinch their first series sweep o...

Los Angeles Lakers point guard Steve Nash will likely miss his third consecutive game Sunday against the Los Angeles Clippers because of a hip injury.

The Anschutz Company announced Thursday that it will retain ownership of Anschutz Entertainment Group and terminate the sales process for AEG.

LOS ANGELES -- Steve Nash went to get the ball because, well, Nash has always had the ball in his hands. Midway through the first quarter Friday night, as Earl Clark picked up the ball to inbound it, Nash held up his hands as Clark looked at him ...

LOS ANGELES - The popular theory when Dwight Howard arrived in Los Angeles this summer was that Kobe Bryant would groom Howard to eventually become the leader of the Los Angeles Lakers. During a season as unpredictable as this one has been for the La...