
Bryant has 47 in Lakers' 113-106 over Blazers
It didn't matter that it was the Rose Garden. The "M-V-P!" chant for Kobe Bryant was loud and clear. Bryant scored a season-high 47 points and carried ...
Lakers beat Hornets 104-96 to stay in hunt
Kobe Bryant looked around, drew in a breath and gathered himself. Time for one of the game's best closers to get to work with the score tied to start ...

Clippers beat Lakers 109-95 to win division title
Chris Paul held up the red T-shirt reading 'Can't Stop Los Angeles' for a quick postgame photo. He didn't put it on, and neither did his Clippers ...

Clippers beat Suns 126-101 for record 50th win
The Clippers got their franchise-record 50th victory in their fourth try. It didn't come without some fireworks that had nothing to do with ...

Sacramento, Seattle groups present to NBA owners
The future home of the Kings may not be settled this month after all. With owners facing a difficult choice between a move to Seattle or the team ...

Lakers hang Shaq's No. 34 jersey in the rafters
When Shaquille O'Neal visited the Forum during the summer he joined the Los Angeles Lakers, general manager Jerry West encouraged him to look up at ...
44K season tickets requested for Seattle NBA team
The man who's trying to bring the NBA's Sacramento Kings to Seattle says fans have requested 44,000 season tickets in the event the team actually ...

Kobe Bryant leads Lakers past Kings, 103-98
Kobe Bryant passed Wilt Chamberlain for fourth place on the NBA's scoring list, then put on one of the best passing performances of his storied career
Kobe passes Wilt for 4th on NBA scoring list
Kobe Bryant has passed fellow Los Angeles Lakers great Wilt Chamberlain for fourth place on the NBA's career scoring list. Bryant made a pull-up ...

Finals Preview? Heat visit Spurs on Sunday
By the time the Miami Heat get on their plane to come home late Sunday night, they could have a stranglehold on the race to finish with the NBA's best ...

Duncan's 34 leads Spurs past Clippers, 104-102
Tim Duncan had a season-high 34 points, including a game-winning three-point play with 2.2 seconds left, and the San Antonio Spurs outlasted the Los ...

Lakers' Kobe Bryant listed probable with bone spur
Kobe Bryant is likely to play for the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday night against the Sacramento Kings despite a bone spur in his left foot.

Pick 6: A look at the NBA's late-season races
The races are on in the NBA, both on and off the court. With now less than three weeks remaining in the regular season, the eight teams that will be ...

Kobe Bryant has bone spur in left foot
Kobe Bryant has a bone spur in his left foot. Following Los Angeles' 113-103 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday night, the Lakers revealed the ...

Heat start to move on after streak ends
Take heart, Heat. Look out, NBA. When the Los Angeles Lakers' 33-game winning streak ended, they hit a bit of a lull before rolling through the ...

NBA: Referees missed foul on Kobe vs 'Wolves
Everyone in the Timberwolves locker room on Wednesday night believed Kobe Bryant got away with a foul that allowed the Los Angeles Lakers to hold on ...

Heat's winning streak ends at 27 in Chicago
The streak is over. The big prize is still out there. That's what mattered most to LeBron James and the Miami Heat. The Heat's bid for NBA history ...

Lakers World Peace out 6 weeks, needs knee surgery
The Los Angeles Lakers' push for the playoffs just got a whole lot tougher. Lakers forward Metta World Peace, the team's best perimeter defender, is ...

Sacramento, Calif., OKs NBA Kings arena deal
With the clock clicking down, Sacramento city officials took their last shot at keeping the NBA Kings in California's capital by approving a ...

Nowitzki, Paul get 33, Mavs beat Clippers in OT
The Dallas Mavericks finally have a win over one of the top four teams headed to the Western Conference playoffs — just in time for their own ...

Heat still not fixated on winning streak
The Los Angeles Lakers made it look easy when they racked up win after win after win for an NBA-record 33 straight games. The Miami Heat, not so much.

Heat win 27th straight, run away from Magic 108-94
Late in the third quarter, the game was tied and the Miami Heat winning streak seemed to be in jeopardy. Then LeBron James got mad. And then the ...

Nuggets win 15th straight, 101-95 over Kings
George Karl didn't sound like the coach of a Denver team on a streak not seen in 43 years. He sounded like a coach ready to shake things up in the ...

Wizards rally for 103-100 win over Lakers
With Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol returning from injuries and the Washington Wizards owning one of the league's worst road records, it seemed like an ...

Even huge deficits aren't derailing Heat
For the Miami Heat, it has been anything but an ordinary path along the way to this extraordinary 24-game winning streak. There have been blowouts, ...