The Lakers can't afford another long-term absentee, especially someone like Dorian Finney-Smith, their best wing and switch defender. Finney-Smith is also adjusting with every game. The Lakers are five games over .500, so there's no rush for them to make immediate changes to the lineup.

The Washington Wizards, who have won a league-low six times, were the cure for the Lakers after a loss Sunday to the Clippers exposed a number of their weaknesses. The postgame morale was low, LeBron James and JJ Redick openly discussing how their roster wouldn’t be able to organically improve an already narrow margin for error.

LeBron James has his first triple-double as a 40-year-old, Anthony Davis has 29 points and 16 rebounds and the Lakers hand Washington its 11th consecutive loss, 111-88.

On Tuesday night, the Los Angeles Lakers crushed the Washington Wizards (at home) by a score of 111-88. Since the game was a blow out, head coach JJ Redick gav

On Tuesday evening, the Los Angeles Lakers will host Jordan Poole and the Washington Wizards in California. For the game, they have announced their injury repo

The Washington Wizards ... The postgame morale was low, LeBron James and JJ Redick openly discussing how their roster wouldn’t be able to organically improve an already narrow margin for ...

Lakers head coach JJ Redick recently mentioned that Dorian Finney-Smith was on a minutes restriction due to an ankle injury he had been dealing with since early in the regular season. But this month, Redick was allowed to increase Finney-Smith’s minutes.

Stephen Curry has long been admired not only for his transcendent basketball skills but also for his generosity and compassion off the court. That compassion

Vince Carter watches his number raised to the rafters and other pictures of the day in the NBA

After JJ Redick lost his home and his sons lost their sports memorabilia collection in the Palisades fire, those sons got a special gift on Saturday.

Things are looking up for the Phoenix Suns on the basketball court these days. The same can’t be said for Jusuf Nurkic. The struggling Nurkic has gone from the team’s