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A new documentary from Hulu seeks to capture the legacy of the Los Angeles Lakers. The streamer today dropped the first teaser trailer for Legacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers, from director and executive producer Antoine Fuqua. This teaser offers insight from Shaquille O'Neal, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson…

It wasn't a great night for reigning champs the LA Lakers or past champs the Golden State Warriors, but the opening of the 2020-2021 season last night was great for the NBA and TNT. Played under Covid-19 safety protocols in the City of Angels and the Republic of Brooklyn, the tip-off doubleheader snagged 2.9 million…

LeBron James said his emerging political nonprofit More Than a Vote has a lot more activity ahead of it beyond 2020. “We didn’t want this to just be a one-off. Everyone heard about the election and we knew how important that was. But we’re not a one-off group and we’re not a one-off team,” he said Wednesday at the New…

Kobe Bryant, the Los Angeles Laker who became one of the NBA’s all-time greats and went on to become an Oscar-winning producer, died Sunday morning in a helicoper crash in Calabasas, CA. He was 41. Bryant was traveling to a youth basketball game when the crash occurred. Authorities said nine people are confirmed dead…

A Lakers season that was already bad got worse on Saturday, as the team announced star attraction LeBron James would sit out its remaining six games to nurse a strained groin injury. Already eliminated from the playoffs and beset by injuries to other key players, the Lakers now head into an off-season in which Coach…

Basketball talent isn’t the only reason – and maybe not even the main reason – that LeBron James is coming to the Los Angeles Lakers. Now a more permanent resident of the capital of American show business and one of the major media centers of the world, James has a chance to grow the businesses that will provide…