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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.

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.

Lakers guard Steve Nash has been ruled out for Tuesday night's game against Dallas for the strain to his right hip and hamstring he suffered Thursday. Steve Blake will replace Nash in the lineup.

Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash will be in the lineup when the Los Angeles Lakers play the Sacramento Kings, Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni said after shootaround Saturday.

Here we meet again, Lakers season. At the corner of frustration and disappointment. Monday marked the team's first three-game losing streak since late January, which led to that air-it-out meeting in Memphis. Tuesday marked getting the last ...

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...

Both Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol will be back in the starting lineup when the Los Angeles Lakers host the Washington Wizards on Friday.

For just the third game this season, the Los Angeles Lakers will look pretty much as they were intended to look back in August when visions of becoming a superteam danced in their heads.

Pau Gasol ran up and down the court Wednesday in a game of 4-on-4 for the first time since suffering a plantar fascia tear in his right foot in early February, and if coach Mike D'Antoni has his way, Gasol could play Friday.

LOS ANGELES -- The downside of the Los Angeles Lakers putting together those two inspiring comeback wins in the past two games is that they played so poorly at the start that they needed to pull the rabbit out of a hat. The less-exciting, yet much...

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...

Ricky Rubio is standing up for his fellow Spaniard Pau Gasol, saying he doesn't think it's fair that the Los Angeles Lakers are bringing Gasol off the bench this season.

Los Angeles Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni says Kobe Bryant's assists shouldn't be looked at like sacrificing.

LOS ANGELES -- First and foremost, Friday was a reminder. Yes, there is a formula for these Los Angeles Lakers players and their coach to win games. They can be dominant and lead an entire game from start to finish without firing Mike D'Antoni or ...

Are the gray skies hovering over the Lakers' 17-25 season going to clear up? Dwight Howard still thinks so.