Red Auerbach

NBA Finals participants express their thoughts on John Wooden a day after the legendary coach's death at age 99. Below is a video featuring ESPN analysts Jack Ramsey, Hubie Brown, Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson as well as Lakers reserve forwards Lamar...

Lakers links -- The Times' Mike Bresnahan reports the Lakers plan to use more of their size in Game 3. -- The Times' Broderick Turner talks with assistant coach Frank Hamblen, who says the Lakers need to pass the ball better in Game 3. -- The Times'...

We’ll look at the genesis of this Orlando Magic trade rumor and recap Game 2 of the NBA Finals from all angles. We’ll also touch on LeBron James, who stood up Carmelo Anthony for a Game 2 date, and the report of Tom Izzo being courted for the Cav...

Reporters from around the Tribune Co. weigh in on the topic. Check back throughout the day for more responses and feel free to leave a comment of your own. [Updated at 12:30 p.m.: Baxter Holmes, Los Angeles Times The only......

Reporters from around the Tribune Co. weigh in on the topic. Check back throughout the day for more responses, and feel free to leave a comment of your own. [Updated at 1:15 p.m.: Lisa Dillman, Los Angeles Times Ah, even......

ORLANDO, Fla. - Kobe Bryant jumped and punched the air. He did it again, seven years of pent up frustration freed in a fit of joy. This was the one he wanted more than all the others. The one to top them all. One year after failing miserably in the...

Ring No. 4 for Kobe has inevitably set off a small firestorm of debate and spirited conversation about where the Lakers' star falls in the pantheon of NBA greats. For some odd reason, in 35 years of covering the league, I have never before posted my...

(AP) - Chuck Daly, who coached the Dream Team to the Olympic gold medal in 1992 after winning back-to-back NBA championships with the Detroit Pistons, has died. He was 78. He died Saturday morning in Jupiter, Fla., with his family by his side, the...

Twenty-one years later, they meet again. The Boston Celtics nodded in destiny's direction a day after the Lakers did, bringing together two of the most relevant sports franchises for the NBA Finals. It will be intriguing, laden with superstars and heavy...

Paul Pierce had not slept in 36 hours but the Boston Celtics captain was more than ready to greet the tens of thousands of fans who turned out today for the rolling rally celebrating the team's first NBA championship in 22 years. "We're tired of watching...

Once, after a game like the Bulls' an unemotional, indifferent 107-82 loss Friday night to the Celtics, former Phoenix coach Cotton Fitzsimmons gathered his players in the locker room and symbolically flushed the toilets. Just flush this one away and...

Then there's that other award that might drop into the Lakers' laps. Phil Jackson has won nine championships as a coach, tied with Red Auerbach for most in NBA history, but has been selected coach of the year only once in his 17-year career. In the same...