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The Los Angeles Lakers' Lamar Odom is the winner of the 2010-11 KIA NBA Sixth Man Award as the league's best player in a reserve role, the NBA announced today. Odom, the first Lakers player to win the award, came off the bench in 47 contests and ...

Starting center Andrew Bynum is out of the Los Angeles Lakers' lineup for their game against the Houston Rockets on Tuesday night with a bone bruise in his left knee. Lakers coach Phil Jackson isn't sure how long the shot-blocking 7-footer will be sidelined with the latest knee ...

Lakers center Theo Ratliff will be sidelined for at least four to six weeks after undergoing arthroscopic surgery on his left knee. The Lakers say Ratliff had successful surgery Tuesday to remove part of his torn meniscus. The veteran shot-blocker's absence will further strain the two-time defending champions' frontcourt depth. Los ...

They passed the moment from person to person in scripted, sometimes symbolic, handoff, Phil Jackson collecting his ring and saying a few words about Luke Walton, Walton accepting his title spoils and praising Lamar Odom, Odom stepping from the bench area to near midcourt to get ...

Andrew Bynum popped champagne in the middle of the hallway outside the Lakers locker room. Ron Artest lost his voice, screaming at the top of his lungs while clutching what the Lakers had worked for all season. But the moment that may very well stand out was the image ...

Rajon Rondo was cut on the chin compliments of a Ron Artest elbow. Kendrick Perkins had to be helped off the court thanks to a Pau Gasol and Kobe Bryant sandwich. Paul Pierce wound up on his back time and time again in large part because of the Lakers' ...

This was everything you could have wanted from an NBA Finals game. It was physical. It was competitive. And it featured two teams playing different enough styles to engender after-the-fact discourse about who was playing the "right way". Tonight, the "right way" was the path taken by ...

If it wasn't already apparent, this is not the same series as the 2008 Finals. Mostly because of the Los Angeles Lakers. In their 91-84 Game 3 victory, the Lakers, both as individuals and collectively, fought through a litany of situations that would have left them reeling ...

Kobe Bryant may have just inked his way to being a Laker for life. On Friday, the 31-year-old guard signed a three-year extension that will put him in a Lakers uniform through the 2013-14 season. "My position all along -- and I've mentioned many times -- is that Kobe ...

The Los Angeles Lakers have retracted an offer to Lamar Odom, saying that talks to re-sign the free agent have stalled. Lakers public relations director John Black said the team had taken the offer off the table in the past two days. "There are specifics behind why we pulled it, but that's ...