The Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) have fired head coach Darvin Ham, the 17-time champions announced on Friday night. Ham, who became the Lakers’ head coach in 2022 after previously being an assistant in 2011, spent two seasons in Los Angeles as head coach, leading the team to the Western Conference playoff finals in 2023. The 50-year-old replaced Frank Vogel, who was...
The Denver Nuggets had set the precedent on how they wanted their Western Conference playoff first-round matchup against the Los Angeles Lakers to go, and all they did in Game 5 on Monday night was to put the series to bed in front of their home fans. However, it wasn’t all rosy, as the defending champions had to work extremely hard to see off the Lakers...
It looked like it would never happen, but it finally did as the Los Angeles Lakers found the answer to their Denver Nuggets problem with a 119-108 win on Sunday night at Crypto.com Arena in Game 4 of their Western Conference first-round matchup. The Nuggets had won eleven straight against the Lakers and were facing elimination from the playoffs in the first round if they faltered...
The Los Angeles Lakers most definitely rue having to face the Denver Nuggets in the Western Conference playoffs, as their latest defeat on Thursday night was the eleventh straight time they’ve lost to the defending champions. The Lakers, playing at home for the first time in their first-round series against the Nuggets, gave up another double-digit lead as they fell 112-105 in Game 3 at Crypto.com...
The Los Angeles Lakers beat the New Orleans Pelicans 110-106 in the Play-In Tournament opener at Smoothie King Center on Tuesday night to claim the seventh seed in the West, where they will face the Denver Nuggets in the playoffs. New Orleans took an eight-point lead into the second quarter but the Lakers tightened up their defense, keeping the Pelicans to just 16 points, while they...
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