2024 NBA Playoffs: LA Lakers Avoid Elimination With Game 4 Win
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Lakers will live to fight another day. Down 0-3 and facing elimination in their first-round series, LeBron James carded 30 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists to lead the Lakers to a 119-108 Game 5 win over the Denver Nuggets on Saturday at the Crypto.com Arena. The victory ended […]
2024 NBA Playoffs: Los Angeles Lakers Sink To 0-3 Hole Versus Denver Nuggets
LOS ANGELES — The LA Lakers, a team loaded with stars and expectations, are one loss away from exiting the first round of the 2024 NBA playoffs. Aaron Gordon emerged out of his supporting cast role and played like a star to lead the defending champions Denver Nuggets to a decisive 112-105 Game 3 victory […]
2024 NBA Playoffs: Dallas Mavericks Bite Back, Tame LA Clippers In Game 2
LOS ANGELES — Luka Doncic won’t be denied. After a sub-par Game 1 where he struggled with his shooting — just 11-of-26 from the field and 4-of-12 from 3 — Doncic exploded for 32 points on 5-of-14 beyond the arc to lead the Mavericks to a 96-93 win over the Clippers at the Crypto.com Arena. […]
NBA: Phoenix Suns Rise In LA, 124-108
LOS ANGELES — Pushing to stay out of the play-in tournament and into an outright playoffs berth, the Phoenix Suns showed the might of their star-studded team. Devin Booker scored 37 points and Bradley Beal added 26 while Kevin Durant pitched in 24 in an offensive display that carried the visitors to a 124-108 victory […]
March Madness 2024: No.1 Seed UNC Falls To Alabama, 89-87
LOS ANGELES — In a game of runs, where momentum swung back and forth late in the second half, Alabama held off a tough North Carolina squad, 89-87, in their Sweet 16 battle on Thursday at the Crypto.com Arena. The mild upset over the No.1 seed Tar Heels sends No.4 seed CrimsonTide to the Elite […]
NBA: Dame Time Strikes LA Clippers, 124-117
LOS ANGELES — — Sunday was Dame Time in Los Angeles. Damian Lillard, the former Blazers star who moved from Portland to Milwaukee this season, poured 16 of his 35 points in the fourth quarter to lift the Bucks’ to a 124-117 squeaker over the short-handed Los Angeles Clippers. Lillard hit 11 of 19 shots […]
NBA All-Star Saturday: Damian Lillard Is Back-To-Back Three-Point King
INDIANAPOLIS — What time is it? It was Dame Time at the All-Star 3-point shooting contest where Milwaukee Bucks guard Damian Lillard won his second straight title by holding off an impressive field of challengers. And Lillard did it in style, too, swishing the winning bucket on his last corner 3. After getting through to […]
NBA: Vinsanity, Billups Lead 14 Finalists For Hall Of Fame Enshrinement
INDIANAPOLIS — Two of the biggest stars in the NBA in the glorious 2000s stand at the precipice of basketball immortality. Aerial acrobat Vince Carter and Chauncey Billups lead a cast of 14 finalists for enshrinement in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Among the other notables in the cast of 14 include Bo Ryan, […]
NBA: New Orleans Pelicans’ Quick Start Thwart LA Clippers Comeback
LOS ANGELES — Winning on the road in the NBA is not an easy task. But the New Orleans Pelicans found a formula on Thursday night: Start quick and finish strong. Playing on the road against a hot team that had won 8 of their last 10, the Pelicans set the tone with a 36-19 blast to open […]
NBA: Denver Nuggets’ 10-2 Late Run Stun LA Lakers
LOS ANGELES — — The Denver Nuggets continue to be a huge monkey off the LA Lakers’ back. Jamal Murray led a balanced assault that helped the defending champions overcome the Lakers, 114-106, on Thursday night at the Crypto.com Arena where the hosts saw their three-game winning streak come to a screeching halt. Murray finished […]
