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In the first move of what's sure to be a busy offseason for the Los Angeles Lakers, coach Mike D'Antoni informed Bernie Bickerstaff and Chuck Person on Monday that they will not be retained as assistant coaches for next season.

Mike D'Antoni said the Lakers needs even a hobbled Steve Nash to pull off the upset in their first round series.

Dwight Howard expects San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich to parade him to the foul line when the Los Angeles Lakers open up their playoff series with Game 1 on Sunday, and it doesn't faze him one bit.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Count Kobe Bryant as one Los Angeles Lakers player who was uninspired by coach Mike D'Antoni's postgame rant last week. "I don't think it's time to get emotional," Bryant said Monday after the Lakers lost 109-103 to the Golden S...

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The second quarter was so ugly that Kobe Bryant decided he had seen enough even while there was still time left on the clock. Bryant left the court and stalked off to the locker room with 0.5 seconds remaining after the Golden S...

Mike D'Antoni's short rotation left starters fatigued and reserves restless during the tail end of a back-to-back.

PHOENIX -- Thomas Wolfe said it, and Steve Nash has now lived it. "You can't go home again." Boy, was that ever true for Nash, the former two-time league MVP with the Phoenix Suns, who returned to his former city twice this season and came up e...

The Los Angeles Lakers won on Tuesday with the Orlando Magic resorting to "Hack-a-Howard" and constantly parading Dwight Howard to the foul line, but that doesn't mean that coach Mike D'Antoni approves of "Hack-a-Whomever."

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Even while the Los Angeles Lakers struggled at the onset of the 2012-13 season, Kobe Bryant was playing at a prolific pace. Months into the season, Bryant's shooting percentages from the field and from 3-point range were as good...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- The Lakers' already depleted front line has another injury on its hands. Earl Clark underwent tests on his sore right foot on Tuesday, keeping him out of shoot-around in advance of the Lakers' game against the Phoenix Suns. B...

MIAMI -- If Sunday's Los Angeles Lakers-Miami Heat matchup had any less meaning because of Los Angeles' sub-.500 record, nobody informed the teams that was the case. Even though Miami came into the game winners of four in a row and owners of the b...

Dwight Howard is fed up and let it be known that he is tired of other people trying to assess the severity of his shoulder injury.

The Los Angeles Lakers will be without two starters when they take on the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday.

Los Angeles Lakers star center Dwight Howard has been diagnosed with a sore right shoulder and will be listed as day to day.

Los Angeles Lakers star center Dwight Howard has been diagnosed with a sore right shoulder and will be listed as day to day.

The Los Angeles Lakers' all-important seven-game road trip started off by adding insult -- a 92-86 loss to the Phoenix Suns after blowing a 13-point fourth-quarter lead -- to injury, with Dwight Howard aggravating the torn labrum in his right shoulder.