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Los Angeles Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak said he was "hopeful" and "optimistic" that Dwight Howard will be back with the Lakers next season and beyond.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Pau Gasol left his exit meeting with general manager Mitch Kupchak on Tuesday with an increased sense that he may have played his last game with the Lakers. "The future is uncertain," Gasol said. "There's no doubt about it. I...

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

LOS ANGELES -- The Lakers are in. In what seemed like a remote possibility months ago and a dicey proposition even a week ago when Kobe Bryant went out with a torn Achilles, the Lakers not only got into the playoffs, they got in playing a brand of...

LOS ANGELES -- In what has seemed at times like a never-ending Los Angeles Lakers season, the last game of the regular season came down to the last minute of overtime. The Memphis Grizzlies seemingly took most of the drama out of the night for the...

The Los Angeles Lakers are faced with a "win and get in" opportunity Wednesday night when they host the Houston Rockets in their regular-season finale.

The Los Angeles Lakers have come down to the final game of their rocky 2012-13 regular season and in a most appropriate scenario, considering everything that's happened to the team this year, L.A.'s postseason fate is still up in the air.

LOS ANGELES -- It figured to be an emotional night in the first Los Angeles Lakers game since Kobe Bryant went out with that devastating season-ending Achilles tear. And L.A. used the charged atmosphere to its advantage. Here's a look back at L.A....

Kobe Bryant's absence won't be the only lineup change Sunday for the Lakers when they host the Spurs. Steve Nash will miss his seventh straight game with an injured hip and hamstring and Metta World Peace will return to the starting lineup.

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.

Pau Gasol explained he was thinking about the Los Angeles Lakers' chances in the long term when he called Kobe Bryant's 47 points in 48 minutes performance against the Portland Trail Blazers "bittersweet."

As we first reported in January, the Lakers will play in the China Games next preseason and the dates of the games were announced by the NBA on Tuesday -- Oct. 15 in Beijing and Oct. 18 in Shanghai, both against the Golden State Warriors. It will ...

LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Lakers might have been the only NBA team without a representative at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in Boston over the weekend, but general manager Mitch Kupchak says that will change in the future. "We ha...

LOS ANGELES -- In a season full of hard knocks, the Los Angeles Lakers got a little bit of luck on their side when all three teams they're immediately chasing in the standings -- the Houston Rockets, Utah Jazz and Golden State Warriors -- lost on Wed...

Will the Los Angeles Lakers make the playoffs? That's really the only pertinent question for the boys in purple and gold these days. All the other queries that surround them -- What's the state of Kobe Bryant and Dwight Howard's relationship? W...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- The Los Angeles Lakers went into the All-Star break vowing to play better basketball in the final 28 games of the season to make a push for the playoffs. Now that they're out of the break, coach Mike D'Antoni has quantified j...