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Follow the game on @raptorsrepublic Sup everybody, they're singing the national anthems.

There will certainly be more significant trades and free-agent signings before training camps open in October.

Noted Chicagoan and basketballophile Barack Obama appears to be writing off the California vote in 2012, at least the basketball fans around Los Angeles.

With Ron Ron signing with the Los Angeles Lakers Thursday, Trevor Ariza leaves, ironically for Houston Rockets.

After all, that's Sasha Vujacic's job.A LA Wave's Betty Pleasan t claims last week's victory parade for the newly crowned NBA Champion Los Angeles Lakers was marred by something even more distasteful than Pau Gasol's dancing .

Fresh off defeating the Orlando Magic to become the 2009 NBA champions and hoping to restrain payroll in an effort to re-sign free agents Lamar Odom and Trevor Ariza , the Los Angeles Lakers went overseas with the 29th pick in Thursday's NBA Draft, selecting selecting nine-year old Otto Schuster of Schmalkalden, Germany .

Since 2000, the Lakers have either won or made it to the NBA Finals five times. That means one thing when it comes to the NBA Draft - they'll be picking very late... by Michael Del Muro 88 reads June 22, 2009 Since 2000, the Lakers have either won or made it to the NBA Finals five times.

Everyone knows the Lakers will have their hands full in the offseason trying to keep their championship team intact.

Since 2000, the Lakers have either won or made it to the NBA Finalssix times. That means one thing when it comes to the NBA Draft a ' they'll be picking very late.

Hundreds of thousands of Lakers fans descended on downtown Los Angeles, turning the streets and the Coliseum into a sea of purple and gold as the city prepared to celebrate the team's 15th NBA championship with a parade and victory rally.

Lamar Odom made his demands to stay with the Lakers perfectly clear Thursday. "Three years, $80 million," he said.

Thousands turn out to celebrate the Lakers' NBA title. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES -- The streets of downtown Los Angeles were transformed into a sea of purple and gold on Wednesday as tens of thousands of joyous Lakers fans joined their team in a raucous but mostly peaceful celebration of its 15th NBA championship.

Wherever Lamar Odom ends up next season, it will all be because of Odom's own doing.

On the surface, it is two American teams battling for National Basketball Association supremacy.

Typical Fish. At the end of the most indelible game of his enduring Lakers career, Derek Fisher disappeared.

Reporting from Orlando, Fla. -- It's an unusual selection, truly, but Coach Phil Jackson has settled on a theme to hammer home the importance of winning the Lakers' 15th NBA championship.

The man who built his name breaking ankles on the playground seems to have pulled off the ultimate crossover.

The Lakers shot 42 percent from the floor to Orlando's 32 percent. The Lakers outscored the Magic 25-20 in the second quarter despite the sharp shooting of Lewis, who made four consecutive 3-pointers and scored 18 of his 20 points in the period.

Wrong team, wrong number, but it's just a video game commercial. The commercial for 2K Sports ' NBA 2K10 game debuted Thursday night during Game 1 of the NBA finals.

The Los Angeles Lakers held the grand opening for their 14th Reading & Learning Center Friday at the Salesian Boys and Girls Club, with three players participating in the ceremony, a day after their victory in Game 1 of the NBA finals.