Robert Sacre

Dwight Howard made a surprise visit to LAX on Thursday, working the check-in counter at Delta Air Lines and taking boarding passes at a gate. The Lakers center made all the boarding announcements for Flight 1553 to Honolulu.  He also ran a trivia...

Did Coach Mike D'Antoni run his players into the ground with heavy minutes on back-to-back nights? Sure, but did that have anything to do with the loss in Phoenix on Monday night? "We've been playing a seven-man rotation, and I think it caught up with...

The Lakers continued their pursuit of a playoff berth, finishing Week 18 two games above .500 with a 33-31 record. The week started slowly as the Lakers on Tuesday lost to the Thunder in Oklahoma City, 122-105, after their rally fell apart late. Prior...

The common thread in Lakers' losses this season has been turnovers, poor transition defense and free-throw shooting. Currently the Lakers are the worst team in the league from the free-throw line, shooting just 68.9%. After every practice, the players...

Since the All-Star break, the Lakers are 7-2. A resurgent Dwight Howard has been a major part of the Lakers' run. Something clicked for Howard in Houston during All-Star weekend. "I stayed in the hotel and just thought about the first half of the...

Lakers 90, Bulls 81 (end of regulation) The Lakers won their third consecutive game on Sunday afternoon by defeating the Chicago Bulls. It didn't take late-game heroics or a 25-point comeback as in their previous wins over the Toronto Raptors and New...

The Lakers have assigned Darius Morris and Robert Sacre to the D-Fenders. Second-year point guard Morris will join the Lakers' D-League affiliate for the first time this season after falling out of the rotation. When both Steve Nash and Steve Blake were...

The D-Fenders made a trade Monday to acquire center Jerome Jordan, sending Ronald Dupree and Orien Greene to the Reno Bighorns. Jordan has legitimate NBA size, 7 feet and 253 pounds.  Drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks in 2010 (44th overall), Jordan found...

It's unclear how long the Lakers' Pau Gasol will be out with what the team said Wednesday was a "tear of the plantar fascia." The forward/center is still being evaluated, but it seems a foregone conclusion that he's going to be out for a significant...

The Lakers announced Thursday that Pau Gasol will be out for a minimum of 6-8 weeks with a torn plantar fascia in his right foot. Gasol was injured on Tuesday in the fourth quarter of the Lakers' 92-83 victory over the Brooklyn Nets. After an...

With Pau Gasol out with a foot injury and Dwight Howard a question mark with his shoulder, the Lakers (23-26) will have a real challenge when they visit the Boston Celtics (25-23) on Thursday night. The Celtics have won their last five games,...

Lakers 92 - Nets 83 (end of regulation) The Lakers closed out an impressive win on the road, defeating the Brooklyn Nets 92-83. Playing without Dwight Howard (shoulder), Metta World Peace (suspension) and, in crunch time, Pau Gasol (out with a foot...