It really does seem people just like to foam at the mouth over the most irrelevant things. I understand people being horrified by what happened in Penn State and various LAUSD schools. Being horrified by the Holocaust is also acceptable. There needs to be some gravitas is the things we rise up against. That’s why the furor over MIA and Giselle is perplexing. more ›

On Jan. 12, 2011, the Clippers upset the might Miami Heat 111-105 breaking the Heat’s 13-game road winning streak. The Clippers were an upstart team that lacked the experience to be taken seriously. Fast forward one year, there were questions as to how the Clippers would respond now that they have been anointed as contenders. It turned out the Clippers proved their mettle in their 95-89 overtime win over the Miami Heat. more ›

Andrew Bynum was a player Kobe Bryant hated. Maybe it wasn’t a personal hatred, but before Pau Gasol came to Los Angeles it seemed that Kobe saw Bynum as the symbol of the Lakers’ front office incompetence after Shaquille O’Neal was traded. Bryant to this day still grouses about the fact that Smush Parker was a starting point guard for the Lakers. more ›

After announcing that Vanessa and Kobe Bryant had filed for divorce, the LA Times reported that the Lakers star's soon-to-be ex-wife stands to collect a "windfall" during their settlement. Vanessa could indeed be awarded up to $75 million, but according to a blog post at the Times today, a reader pointed out -- and rightly so -- that the use of the word "windfall" smacked not just a little bit of sexism. more ›

It was a tale of two cities with the Lakers and Clippers on Christmas, an exercise in compare/contrast that high school English teachers love to torture their students with. Both games were quite ugly to be honest. more ›

Never have preseason NBA games been this entertaining. A livelier Lakers team made things interesting as the Clippers swept the two preseason games with a 108-103 victory on the red-and-blue floor. more ›

We all know it was merely an exhibition game Monday night, the first for both the Clippers and Lakers in fact. But to blatantly steal from Clippers legendary play-by-play announcer Ralph Lawler, oh me oh my! It certainly did look like the dawning of the age of the Clippers as they dismantled the Lakers 114-95. more ›

Vanessa Bryant has filed for divorce from Kobe, citing irreconcilable differences after ten years of marriage. Vanessa stuck around with Kobe after he was accused of sexual assault in 2003 in Colorado but she eventually got sick of his cheating ways, sources told TMZ. more ›

After it briefly looked like Kobe Bryant was going to be too expensive for Italy's Vitrus Bologna team to afford, the Lakers superstar may be getting close to inking a deal during the NBA lockout, reports CBS News. Virtus Bologna owner Claudio Sabatini originally offered Bryant $6.7 million for the season. Bryant came back asking for $15 million, to which Sabatini reportedly found "shocking." more ›

Basketball labor fights aren't like other kinds of labor fights. When other laborers want to protest, they go on strike. Kobe Bryant? He's threatening to go to Italy. The Lakers star has three years and $83.5 million left on his Lakers contract, but thanks to a 3-month NBA lockout he's considering running off to Italy to play basketball there for a stint. more ›

Buongiorno, Kobe -- will you be playing for Italy this basketball season? It looks like the question is still up in the air. CBS News reports that after being offered $6.7 million for the season -- or nearly $740,000 per game -- to play for Italy's Virtus Bologna, Bryant and his agent came back with a counter offer. more ›

Kobe Bryant is gracing news sources again and is apparently extremely camera shy, especially during prayer. The L.A. Lakers shooting guard allegedly seized a man's wrist and cell phone at St. Therese of Carmel in San Diego County on Sunday, reports CBS LA. more ›

With little progress being made to avert an NBA lockout a Turkish professional team is in talks to sign Kobe Bryant. Istanbul's Besiktas club made an offer to Bryant this week according to the L.A. Times. Kobe is said to be meeting with Besiktas officials in Istanbul on Saturday, reports SBNation. more ›

Apparently Kobe Bryant does love faggots like me after all. He released a brief statement: What I said last night should not be taken literally. My actions were out of frustration during the heat of the game, period. The words expressed do NOT reflect my feelings towards the gay and lesbian communities and were NOT meant to offend anyone. more ›

Via Deadspin and Last Angry Fan comes a video clip of Lakers' guard Kobe Bryant assessed a technical foul by referee Bennie Adams. Bryant was clearly not happy about getting his 15th technical foul of the season and decided to let Adams know. more ›

LA Lakers defeat Phoenix Suns 139-137 (3OT). Who would have thought NBA players really care about a regular season game? I suppose if you’re the Suns, then you would want to make a dent in the 2 ½ games between you and the Memphis Grizzlies for the eighth spot in the West. And if you’re the Lakers, you’d want to keep hold of the second seed. Put all of it together and you get some March Madness, NBA style. more ›

Kobe Bryant will be the first athlete (ever, ever, ever!) to have his hand and foot imprinted in cement outside Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, according to KTLA. The ceremony for Bryant's cementing will take place on February 19th just one day before the All-Star game at Staples Center and amid a flurry of All-Star weekend festivities. more ›

LA Lakers defeat Detroit Pistons 108-83. If one hasn't watched the Lakers in the past couple of weeks, nothing would seem amiss after watching the Lakers beat down the Pistons. The fourth quarter resembled a mausoleum at STAPLES Center as even the tacos were all but guaranteed midway through the fourth quarter. The bench kept hitting their shots. The stars did what they do. Perhaps the only excitement in the game was Luke Walton getting a technical foul late in the quarter. more ›

There is one group of Los Angeles Lakers fans who are booing team player Kobe Bryant, but not for anything he's doing on the court. The Armenian community is angry about Bryant's just-announced endorsement deal with Turkish Airlines, according to CBS2, stirring up deep-rooted discord between the nations. more ›

Kobe Bryant will have some additional business to take care of in Philadelphia next week when the Lakers pay their annual visit to the 76ers. Bryant's alma mater, Lower Merion High School, will be holding a dedication ceremony for the newly named Kobe Bryant Gymnasium in honor of the homegrown All-Star. more ›

Despite what you may have read on Wikipedia, Ryen Russillo is not a native of Compton or Inglewood. Russillo can, however, be heard in Compton, Inglewood and throughout the area weekdays 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on AM 830 KLAA co-hosting "The Scott Van Pelt Show." more ›

Basketball fans, rejoice. Nike has just opened another of its specialty stores in the L.A. area and it is targeted at you. more ›

Before he was named MVP in the chaotic series of 7 NBA finals games, this street art depicting the Los Angeles Lakers' Kobe Bryant in a Batman mask was spotted by LAist Featured Photos contributor Lord Jim. So who is the artist behind this image? more ›

Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak announced this afternoon that the Lakers and Kobe Bryant have agreed to a three-year contract extension which will keep him with the purple and gold until the 2013-2014 season when he will be 35. While the exact terms of the contract haven't been released, according to Adrian Wojnarowski and Marc J. Spears of Yahoo! Sports the extension could be worth $90 million. more ›

Roland Lazenby is a writer who's authored or contributed to 60 books, mostly about sports. Lazenby has written two books about the Lakers franchise, as well as books about Phil Jackson and Kobe Bryant. Additionally, the Virginia Tech professor also runs Laker Noise, a blog about, well, the Lakers. more ›