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President Barack Obama will honor the NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers next week, the White House said Thursday. It's not clear, though, that the basketball-loving president will shoot hoops with Kobe Bryant and his teammates. Continuing a practice of emphasizing community service while celebrating champion sports teams, the ...

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 ...

The Boston Celtics' Rajon Rondo and the Los Angeles Lakers' Pau Gasol today were named the Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for games played Tuesday, October 26, through Sunday, October 31. Rondo helped the Celtics to a 2-1 record to start their season, including ...

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 ...

Rookie Gordon Hayward scored 26 points and the Utah Jazz shrugged off a 19-point third quarter by Kobe Bryant to beat the Los Angeles Lakers 99-94 on Sunday night and run their preseason record to 6-0. Bryant, coming off arthroscopic surgery on his right knee, played only 20 minutes ...

Basketball, especially at its highest level, is a game of athleticism and skill. If your team doesn't have talent, it's not going to win many games. But it takes more than talent to win in the NBA. To get through an 82-game regular season and two months of ...

Have you ever seen those beef jerky commercials where the campers mess with Sasquatch? That’s Phil Jackson and the Miami Heat. The Zen Master took out his stick yesterday and poked the bear a bit, suggesting more than talent goes into winning a title. LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh? ...

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 ...