Kobe Bryant News

Former Los Angeles Clipper Corey Maggette has become at least the second NBA star to buy a home in the Orange County hills overlooking the Newport Beach coastline.

A new Shaquille O’Neal autobiography delves into the former NBA star’s relationship with Kobe Bryant and Pat Riley, according to excerpts posted by Deadspin.

It can be argued that 13-time All-Star Kobe Bryant with a career 25.3 PPG average, an NBA regular-season MVP award, five NBA titles and two NBA Finals MVP awards, is the greatest Los Angeles Laker of all time.

These days the term job security is an oxymoron when it comes to NBA coaches. Teams that are rebuilding aren’t even patient enough to let new hires make it through an entire season.

NBPA president Derek Fisher was prepared to accept the owners’ proposal of a 50-50 split of basketball-related income and promised commissioner David Stern that he could get the players’ union on board, . Billy Hunter, the union’s executive director, and at least one other member of the PA’s executive board confronted Fisher on Friday morning to … (more)

Jerry West could have strutted off into the sunset with an impeccable image, highlighted by his resurrection of the Lakers and the rebirth of the Grizzlies.

Jason Whitlock writes about the sports world from every angle, including those other writers can’t imagine or muster courage to address.

The National Basketball canceled another two weeks of the season on Friday and conceded it was now too late to save the entire 82-game season even if owners and players reached an agreement to end to their bitter labor dispute.

District Attorney Mark Hurlbert says his positions calls for experience and a third term, a proposition being put to voters Tuesday.

So you didn’t exactly get around to sewing your own Nicki Minaj Halloween costume this year, so what? You’ve still got time to craft a pretty impressive celebrity ensemble that will look as though you’ve been planning it for months.

First the NBA cancels the remaining schedule of games in November because it can’t reach a collective bargaining agreement with the players’ union.

The public knew it when the league released it this summer during the current lockout.

This is the follow up post to a previous look at the 01′ 76ers; click here to read it first The 2001 playoffs were a story of two conferences; in the Eastern Conference the Philadelphia 76ers started by beating the previous conference champion Indiana Pacers handily in five games, but that was the last easy series this team would participate in.

Continuing our countdown of the 20 greatest figures in L.A. sports history , as chosen in voting by our online readers, with No.

There has been rumblings that the club could look to pursue him via trade as an alternative to a potential Dwight Howard pursuit, and his presence on the roster could really give the Lakers a sizable competitive advantage both in the present and well into the future.