Jabari Smith Jr. scored 22 points, Tari Eason added 18 and the Houston Rockets avoided playoff elimination for the second straight game with a 99-93 victory over the Lakers in Game 5
April 30, 2026
Austin Reaves returned from a nine-game injury absence Wednesday night when the Los Angeles Lakers attempted to finish their first-round playoff series with the Houston Rockets in Game 5
April 30, 2026
Houston’s Kevin Durant is out for Game 5 against the Los Angeles Lakers with a left ankle sprain
April 28, 2026
Austin Reaves and the Los Angeles Lakers will wait until right before Game 5 to determine whether he is ready to return from nearly four weeks on the sidelines with a strained oblique muscle
April 29, 2026
Kevin Durant missed Houston’s win over the Lakers in Game 4 of a Western Conference first-round playoff series with an ankle injury
April 27, 2026
Los Angeles Lakers center Deandre Ayton was ejected in the third quarter of Game 4 against the Houston Rockets after receiving a flagrant foul 2 for hitting Alperen Sengun in the face with his elbow and forearm
April 27, 2026
Amen Thompson scored 23 points, Tari Eason added 20 and the Houston Rockets avoided elimination with a 115-96 rout of the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 4 of the Western Conference playoff series
April 27, 2026
Houston coach Ime Udoka says injured star Kevin Durant is doing better but his status for Game 4 against the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday night is still unclear with the Rockets facing elimination
April 26, 2026
LeBron James scored 29 points, including a tying 3-pointer with 13 seconds left in regulation, Marcus Smart had eight points in overtime and the Los Angeles Lakers took advantage of a Houston Rockets team missing Kevin Durant for a 112-108 win Friday night to take a 3-0 lead in the Western Conference first-round series
April 25, 2026
Austin Reaves has been upgraded to questionable for Game 3 of the Los Angeles Lakers’ first-round playoff series against the Houston Rockets
April 24, 2026
LeBron James had 28 points, eight rebounds and seven assists, and the short-handed Los Angeles Lakers outlasted the Houston Rockets for a 101-94 victory and a stunning 2-0 lead in their first-round playoff series
April 22, 2026
Kevin Durant was ruled out of Houston’s playoff opener against the Los Angeles Lakers with a bruised right knee about 90 minutes before tipoff
April 19, 2026
Kevin Durant is back in the playoffs after missing out last season
April 17, 2026
LeBron James and Bronny James seem likely to play postseason minutes together this month when the Los Angeles Lakers face the Houston Rockets in the first round
April 17, 2026
The Los Angeles Lakers’ Luka Doncic and Detroit’s Cade Cunningham will be eligible for awards such as MVP and All-NBA this season despite falling short of the 65-game minimum
April 16, 2026
LeBron James probably thought he was done playing this particular role
April 14, 2026
Los Angeles Lakers coach JJ Redick downplayed his mid-game shouting match with Jarred Vanderbilt during their loss to Oklahoma City
April 08, 2026
Los Angeles Lakers coach JJ Redick says he just wants to move on after the Dallas Mavericks contradicted his contention that their medical staff incorrectly conducted an MRI on Austin Reaves last weekend
April 08, 2026
Cooper Flagg scored 45 points and the Dallas Mavericks ended their longest home losing streak in 32 years at 14 games with a 134-128 victory over the depleted Los Angeles Lakers
April 06, 2026
Austin Reaves will miss the rest of the Los Angeles Lakers’ regular season with a Grade 2 oblique muscle injury
April 05, 2026
Luka Doncic will miss the rest of the Los Angeles Lakers’ regular season with a Grade 2 strain of his left hamstring, the team says
April 04, 2026
Los Angeles Lakers guard Luka Doncic injured his left hamstring in a loss to Oklahoma City and coach JJ Redick said the league’s scoring leader will have an MRI on Friday
April 03, 2026
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 28 points as the Oklahoma City Thunder routed the Los Angeles Lakers 139-96 in a game in which NBA leading scorer Luka Doncic left due to injury
April 03, 2026
Luka Doncic doesn’t need an excuse to pile on points, so when Chicago guard Matas Buzelis started jawing with him Thursday night, it became the fuel for his first 50-point game with the Los Angeles Lakers
March 13, 2026
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