If one thing could have brought late Boston Celtics legend Red Auerbach back from the great beyond, it was what happened Wednesday night in the house he built. Near the end of a Laker win where Kobe Bryant dropped 43 on Boston, Celtics fans started chanting “M-V-P, M-V-P” for Kobe. Somewhere in Indiana Larry Bird must have gotten a chill up his spine. A Laker winning over the fans of their most hated rival, the......

Lakers 102, Rockets 94 - It wasn't supposed to be this hard. The Lakers were crushing Houston by 27 points in the fourth quarter. Luke Walton was still hot with 18 points and 7 assists. Kobe was icing his knees on the bench ("almost like Red Auerbach smoking the cigar" as he described it). Then the Lakers stoped scoring. The Rockets pulled within two points and Kobe went back in to ice something else:......

His IMDB page is not going to impress you, but Dr. Jerry Buss is a star in this city. By whatever nebulous definition we seem to have for it. So somebody bought him one — the Lakers owner gets a star on Hollywood Boulevard at Highland today (at noon, if you have nothing better to do). The official reason is for his help starting Prime Ticket, the local sports network that has morphed into......

According to ESPN.com's Ric Bucher, Phil Jackson is meeting with Kobe Bryant later this week, and he has already spoken to Jerry Buss about potentially coming back to coach the Lakers. Hiring Phil Jackson would be a no-brainer for the Lakers. For one, Jerry Buss would save face after being perceived as the man who ran Shaq out of town. Secondly, Jackson is one of the few coaches with the clout to exert some......