The Sparks might have gotten the steal of the WNBA draft. The team didn’t have a pick until the No. 21 overall slot in the second round, but the Sparks still ended up with South Carolina guard Ta’Niya Latson. “She can shoot it, she can get to the basket, she’s great in transition,” Sparks coach…
p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> The Lakers got a taste of a playoff atmosphere against the Houston Rockets only a month ago. They can recreate the moment again, this time with real postseason stakes, but the No. 4 seed in the Western Conference will be missing a key component from those thrilling wins. Luka Doncic, still getting specialized…
From AAU games in Ohio to college gyms up and down the Atlantic Coast Conference to the NBA, Luke Kennard has always been met with the same warning. “Shooter!” LeBron James, however, knows better than to put Kennard in a box. The Lakers superstar watched Kennard’s career grow since he was playing on James’ AAU…
The ball is back in LeBron James’ hands, and he is thriving in his “new” role as the Lakers’ primary caretaker. James is in this position in the wake of injuries to Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves. He had been the third option behind Doncic and Reaves, and he shifted back to a role he…
Women’s college basketball’s version of free agency is here. Less than six hours after UCLA won its first NCAA national title, the transfer portal opened, allowing teams to talk to players seeking new schools. And, like the past few seasons, it is already filled with star power. UCLA coach Cori Close has to replace six…
DALLAS — The Lakers are as shorthanded as they can be, their dynamic starting backcourt of Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves out with injuries at a pivotal time of the season. They’re the offensive engines for a Lakers team battling for the No. 3 playoff seeding in a competitive Western Conference. The 41-year-old LeBron James is now…
It was dominating. It was overwhelming. It was powder-blue pummeling, eight-clap crushing, Westwood wonderful. It was the UCLA women’s basketball team needing barely two hours to complete the struggles of 45 years, a stunningly swarming triumph unmatched in even the finest of Bruin athletic traditions. Break out a new banner. Make room in the Pauley…
PHOENIX — The greatest team in UCLA women’s basketball history has earned its crown. With a 30-point lead by the end of the third quarter, much of the end of Sunday’s NCAA championship victory was a celebration of what UCLA had built en route to its 79-51 victory over South Carolina. By the final buzzer, it was…
It’s been anything but a happy year for trainer Mark Glatt, whose wife of 25 years, Dena, died Feb. 12 from cardiac arrest at 57. But Glatt could at least gain a moment of joy on a warm Saturday afternoon in Arcadia when his 3-year-old colt, the heretofore ironically named So Happy, pulled off an…
OKLAHOMA CITY — The score wasn’t the only thing that made this the Lakers’ worst loss of the season. Even more concerning than the Lakers’ 139-96 blowout loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday was watching superstar guard Luka Doncic hobble off the court with a left hamstring injury in the third quarter. Doncic went straight…
