Kobe Bryant News

A pair of superstars, Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James and Los Angeles Lakers forward Kobe Bryant, were named the NBA's Eastern and Western Conference players of the week, respectively, for the period ending November 22.

Vince Carter had the ball isolated in the wing against Paul Pierce in the final minutes of the fourth quarter.

And it's no coincidence that it happens with the return of Pau Gasol to the lineup.

Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant goes up to score against the Chicago Bulls during their NBA basketball game in Los Angeles yesterday.

Lakers owner Jerry Buss summed up his present-day demeanor with one sentence. "Like all gamblers, we feel like we're on a run," he said Sunday evening.

Last Edit: 5 days 20 hours ago Amazingly, the race for greatest Los Angeles Lakers coach, leaving aside John Kundla, who won five titles with the franchise in Minneapolis, comes down to two of the all-time greats, who each won four titles in Los Angeles ... Phil Jackson and Pat Riley.

Pau Gasol aims to build on an impressive season debut tonight when his Los Angeles Lakers play host to the much-improved Oklahoma City Thunder at Staples Center.

This a quick one: When I heard all of the hype about the Lakers potentially breaking the Chicago Bulls ' single season record of 72-10, I was quite confused as to what everyone was seeing that made them think such a feat could ever be accomplished again and that the band of makeshift players supporting Kobe Bryant would be sufficient to do it ...

Most of the available Lakers news was noted Monday night on the blog. Start with Kobe Bryant's balky groin, aggravated in Sunday's loss to the Rockets .

Abdul-Jabbar managing his illness Nov. 15: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wants to be very clear that his cancer was caught early and that he's not dealing with a death sentence.

The last time the Houston Rockets and LA Lakers matched up, it took overtime for Kobe Bryant and the hated Hollywood bunch to defeat the good guys in the Lone Star State.

In the NBA, whether a team loses byA one point or 30, it still counts as only one loss.

LOS ANGELES Ask Kobe Bryant to reflect on his 2007 demand to be traded away from the Lakers, and he will express appreciation for all the hard work an awful lot of people put in to make the Lakers better.

The former Galu tribe members try not to let Russell out of their sights so he can't find another hidden immunity idol.

Don't get it twisted. Believe what you want about Kobe's infamous "Parking Lot Video" from 2007 but Kobe never really wanted Andrew Bynum traded.

The Pistons begin a four-game road trip tonight . This will be a tough stretch, and Ia TMd consider winning two of the games a rousing success.

Kevin Ding: Lamar Odom's TV special is on one week, Pau Gasol's TV gig is on the next, and throughout it all, Ron Artest's Twitter accounts are on fire as the Lakers' show transcends the basketball court.

The first came as a 21 year-old on March 12, 2000 in LA against the Sacramento Kings, the 100th nearly 10 years later, Tuesday night in the Lakers' 106-93 win over the Pistons at Staples.

Reporting from Denver - Phil Jackson might want to rethink this thing. Before Friday's game, long before the Denver Nuggets thumped the Lakers, pounding them in practically every category in front of an amped-up crowd, Jackson said he didn't consider Denver to be a Western Conference rival.

WHAT HAPPENED: With chants of MVP raining from the Staples Center crowd, Kobe Bryant exploded for 40 points on 17-for-29 shooting as the Lakers snapped a two-game losing streak.