Celtics–Lakers rivalry

Boston Celtics fans woke up Tuesday morning still stunned that their team lost by 19 points to the Miami Heat in TD Garden on Monday night in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Any hopes of back-to-back trips to the NBA Finals were…

I have seen some ass whuppings administered in my lifetime. I remember in the fifth grade baseball playoffs beating the top overall seed by about 20 runs. To put a championship cap on Alabama’s 2012 football season the Tide ran through…

Image: Getty ImagesNBA, I’m ready to bargain. I complain regularly about the uniforms because back when the NBA was a proper league, the home team wore white except for the Los Angeles Lakers gold. I can accept that those days are long…

Anthony Davis passes the ball around Brandon Ingram at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, Louisiana.Image: Getty ImagesSomehow the Los Angeles Lakers and New Orleans Pelicans are simultaneously in different and similar situations. One…

Photo: Getty ImagesThe Los Angeles Lakers were great on Friday night. They dominated one of the best teams in the Western Conference — the Denver Nuggets.LeBron James scored 30 points, and the Lakers got positive contributions from several…

Anthony DavisPhoto: Getty ImagesThere is a reason that the Los Angeles Lakers have so little draft capital. In 2019, the trend in NBA team building was to assemble as many star players on a roster as possible, assume that talent will lift…

Russell Westbrook’s contract may be the most valuable for the Lakers.Image: Getty ImagesRussRussell Westbrook was out Wednesday night with a hamstring injury as the Lakers were soundly defeated on the road against a Denver Nuggets squad…

Patrick Beverley is headed to Hollywoodland.Image: Getty ImagesAfter weeks of stillness on the NBA free agency and trading front, due largely to Kevin Durant’s trade request and eventual decision to remain a Net, the Lakers and Jazz finally…

Old and Busted (l.), New Hotness (r.)Photo: Getty ImagesThe Boston Celtics have reached their offseason garden of forking paths. After falling short in the NBA Finals, they now seem willing to break up their young tandem, and potentially a…

Kyrie Irving (r.)Photo: Getty ImagesLOS ANGELES — After completing one of the worst trades in franchise history just last year, the Lakers have a chance to make things right by acquiring another superstar: Kyrie Irving.Last July, the team…