Lakers give Rob Pelinka a contract extension and new title
The Lakers have given Rob Pelinka a contract extension and a new title: president of basketball operations. Terms of the deal were not announced Friday.Pelinka,…
Dwight Howard, Jeanie Buss clear air on his 2020 Lakers departure
Dwight Howard was confused.On a team led by LeBron James and Anthony Davis, Howard had been viewed as a key role player during the Lakers’…
Q&A with Jeanie Buss on WOW wrestling, Lakers’ LeBron and Bronny James
Jeanie Buss went to her first women’s wrestling match with low expectations.“My only experience with women wrestling was like Jell-O wrestling or mud wrestling,” she…
Letters to Sports: Give Dodgers’ Teoscar Hernández his due
Let me get this straight. In last Saturday’s Times, Chuck Schilken wrote a story on Teoscar Hernández rightfully noting “the outfielder has been representing Los…
Lakers legend Jerry West’s legacy sadly includes estrangement
The sadness was compounded by the strangeness. The announcement of the death of the greatest Laker was made by the Clippers. “Jerry West, the personification…
Letters to Sports: Lakers need to clean house after playoff exit?
Let me get this straight. The Lakers, coached by Darvin Ham, are eliminated in the first round by the defending NBA champs and Ham is…