The Los Angeles Lakers dropped the first game of the 2025 playoffs, losing fairly easily to the Minnesota Timberwolves.

NBA legend Magic Johnson had some tough-love critiques for his beloved Los Angeles Lakers—with whom he won five championship rings during his 13 years as a player—after their Game 1 loss vs. the ...

500, hung 146 points on the Lakers at Crypto.com Arena. This prompted Magic Johnson to send out a tweet bemoaning their defensive effort. The greatest point guard of all time wanted to make sure that ...

"How old is he? Twenty-one? I don't think I've ever seen a player that good who is this young except for maybe me," Russell ...

With threats of a player strike looming, which seeks a new deal for higher salaries and a greater share of league revenue, ...

Danny Wolf from Michigan has generated basketball excitement with his skills in a way that many fans compare to Larry Bird.

On Nov. 22, 2005, a convergence of eras took place. Crosby and Ovechkin met for the first time, with Crosby’s Penguins ...

New national champion, new WNBA Draft class, same storylines. After women’s college basketball reached new heights last ...

These stand out because they are moments when the game’s best players prove something by tapping into the highest level of what makes them great.

And because of that — and his brilliance shooting the ball on Saturday vs. No. 1 overall seed Auburn ... for the Wooden Award, joined Larry Bird as the only two players in the history ...

To Johnson, the league's greatest point guard, there was never much of a rivalry once the Lakers found their rhythm.

When Magic Johnson and Larry Bird first burst onto the scene in the late 1970s, no one really knew what they were witnessing.