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• Jonathan Kuminga’s Agent: Defense Was Reason For Picking Timberwolves Over Lakers

  28-08-2026 18:08 via lakersnation.com
  
  The Jonathan Kuminga free agency saga finally came to an end this week when he signed a two-year, $13 million deal to join the Minnesota Timberwolves. Kuminga reportedly turned down a three-year offer from the Lakers starting at $12 million annually to join Anthony Edwards and LaMelo Ball in Minneapolis.Both teams were in search of a starting power forward. Kuminga will now start next to Edwards, Ball, Jaden McDaniels and Rudy Gobert, a fascinating lineup with real strengths, but clear flaws. Ho
  
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• Trevor Ariza Describes How He And Kobe Bryant Became ‘Inseparable’

  07-09-2026 21:50 via lakersnation.com
  
  Kobe Bryant played with a ton of different teammates during his 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers and of course, he became closer with some than others. One player whom he became extremely close with was wing Trevor Ariza, who was traded to the Lakers in the middle of the 2008 season.
  Bryant had a reputation during his playing days of being mean and unapproachable, but he and Ariza grew to have an extremely close relationship. And Ariza described how the two became inseparable during th
  
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• Luka Doncic Picks Lakers Teammate He Would Switch Lives With For 1 Day

  07-09-2026 20:15 via lakersnation.com
  
  Luka Doncic can look around at the Los Angeles Lakers roster and see plenty of new faces. There are nine players that were not on last year’s team, with the franchise completely resetting around Doncic in the offseason. But there are some familiar faces, including Jarred Vanderbilt, who the Lakers acquired in 2023 and is now the second-longest tenured member of the roster.Vanderbilt has been an on-and-off rotation player for the Lakers over the last few years. Injuries hampered his effecti
  
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• Sandro Mamukelashvili Excited For Lakers Season After Gelling During Minicamp

  07-09-2026 19:00 via lakersnation.com
  
  The Los Angeles Lakers brought their new-look roster to Slovenia — funded and led by Luka Doncic — for a minicamp to help build early chemistry. The entire roster — minus rookie Cam Carr — flew out to Ljubljana for the event, with nearly the entire team coming from the United States. Sandro Mamukelashvili, one of L.A.’s premier offseason signings, came from Georgia in the midst of FIBA World Cup Qualifiers.
  Mamukelashvili received a four-year, $52 million contract f
  
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• Luka Doncic Describes Lakers As ‘Happy’

  07-09-2026 18:00 via lakersnation.com
  
  The new-look Los Angeles Lakers take the court for the first time when the NBA season begins next month. However, they have already gotten work in together as they try to exceed relatively low expectations. Luka Doncic, the unquestioned leader of this Lakers team, already had the whole roster come to Slovenia for an offseason minicamp.Those are the kinds of things that help teams develop chemistry — provided it goes well — and that chemistry is what teams lean on during the inevitabl
  
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• Collin Sexton: Walker Kessler Will Have Huge Impact Defensively For Lakers

  07-09-2026 16:25 via lakersnation.com
  
  The start of training camp is nearly here for the Los Angeles Lakers as they begin their preparation for the 2026-27 season. L.A. retooled its roster around star Luka Doncic and at the forefront was bringing in a cornerstone center in Walker Kessler.
  The Lakers registered interest in Kessler for several years, but the Utah Jazz were never willing to trade him. The big man finally made his way to the Lakers this offseason and happened to do so along with his former Jazz teammate Collin Sexton. Af
  
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• Kevon Looney Gives Reason For Picking 55 As Lakers Jersey Number

  07-09-2026 15:00 via lakersnation.com
  
  Los Angeles Lakers big man Kevon Looney will be an important piece of the roster this season. While Walker Kessler is slotted in as the starting center, Looney looks to be the primary backup and will provide size, physicality, rebounding and championship experience for this squad.
  Most will recall Looney as a longtime member of the Golden State Warriors where he won multiple NBA Championships. During that time he wore the jersey number 5, but for the Lakers he will be going with 55.
  “I cho
  
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• Collin Sexton Explains What Drew Him To Lakers In Free Agency

  06-09-2026 22:21 via lakersnation.com
  
  Collin Sexton was a surprise signing for the Los Angeles Lakers, as there was no prior reported interest from the team. However, it appeared that general manager Rob Pelinka wanted to invest in bench scoring and frankly is not a bad decision after the second unit struggled greatly the last two seasons.
  Being a Laker serves as a monumental moment in a player’s career given how historic a franchise Los Angeles is and Sexton spoke highly of his experience so far.
  “It’s been amazin
  
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• Jayson Tatum Explains Kobe Bryant’s Impact On Him Growing Up

  06-09-2026 20:10 via lakersnation.com
  
  Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant is one of the most influential players in the history of the NBA. Many of the top players in the league today have spoken about how much they idolized Bryant growing up and some even had the chance to workout and build a relationship with the icon. One of those was Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum, who has spoken many times about the impact Bryant had on his career.
  Tatum grew up in St. Louis so he wasn’t even in an area where Bryant played, but his st
  
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• Danny Green Likes New Pieces On Lakers’ Roster

  06-09-2026 18:15 via lakersnation.com
  
  When evaluating what the Los Angeles Lakers did this offseason, no one truly knows how these new pieces will come together. However, the foundation is set with Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves as their backcourt and Walker Kessler manning the middle.
  The challenge is finding quality role players to put around them and this upcoming season serves as a trial run. Former Lakers champion Danny Green shared his thoughts about the new-look team and what he is concerned about.
  “I mean, at first I wa
  
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• Kevon Looney Enjoyed Getting To Know New Lakers Teammates During Minicamp

  06-09-2026 16:10 via lakersnation.com
  
  Kevon Looney is one of numerous new additions to the Los Angeles Lakers this summer and he brings veteran, championship experience. Along with backing up Walker Kessler, the UCLA product should offer his teammates insight into what it takes to be a winning player.
  Understand the need to build team chemistry with this new Lakers team, Luka Doncic held a minicamp in Slovenia to help expedite the process. Now that they have returned from overseas, Looney shared how his experience was in Ljubljana.
  
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• Top 100 Players Entering 2026-27 NBA Season: Nos. 1-10

  06-09-2026 15:00 via lakersnation.com
  
  Lakers Nation’s ranking of the 100 best players for the 2026-27 reaches its conclusion with the top ten. This list includes the likely MVP and All-NBA candidates from across the league, showing just how great a place the NBA is in.This list — completed in sections over the last month — considers players only for the upcoming campaign, without regard for anything beyond June of next year. The previous editions of the list can be viewed below.
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• Sasha Vujacic Loved Seeing Luka Doncic Take Lakers To Slovenia

  05-09-2026 20:50 via lakersnation.com
  
  When LeBron James opted to take his talents to the Philadelphia 76ers this offseason, all eyes shifted to Luka Doncic as the main star for the Los Angeles Lakers. Everyone knew that eventually happen when the Lakers acquired Doncic, but they are unquestionably his team now moving forward.
  With plenty of new faces on the roster, Doncic took the Lakers player to Slovenia for a bonding minicamp that by all accounts went very well. Fellow Slovenian and former Lakers two-time champion Sasha Vujacic c
  
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• Bronny James Senses ‘Good Vibes’ Surrounding New-Look Lakers Roster

  05-09-2026 20:20 via lakersnation.com
  
  A large part of the Los Angeles Lakers’ roster during the 2026-27 season will be comprised of new faces. There are only a handful of returning players with Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves being chief among them. But one name that hasn’t been discussed as much is someone who has been talked about ad nauseam over his first two seasons in the NBA and that’s Bronny James.
  Now going into his third year, James will be surrounded by a number of new teammates, one of which will not be hi
  
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• Collin Sexton Enjoyed On And Off Court Aspects Of Lakers’ Slovenia Trip

  05-09-2026 17:33 via lakersnation.com
  
  The Los Angeles Lakers are unquestionably Luka Doncic’s team. The franchise rebuilt their roster around Doncic in the offseason, letting several long-term Lakers walk in the process, to move the team over to Doncic’s leadership. One of those signings was Collin Sexton, a point guard with a hard-playing mentality and a complete offensive skillset.Sexton, like all but one of the team’s rostered players, joined Doncic on a trip to Slovenia for a team minicamp. Doncic hosted and co
  
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• Derek Fisher Doesn’t Believe Lakers Will Fall Off Without LeBron James

  05-09-2026 16:20 via lakersnation.com
  
  This will be an entirely new era for the Los Angeles Lakers as LeBron James has chosen to continue his career elsewhere and Luka Doncic is firmly entrenched as the face of the franchise with Austin Reaves as sidekick. The big question is whether the Lakers can continue their level of success with James no longer on the roster as, to this point, every time he has left a team, they have gotten worse.
  Of course, this is an entirely different scenario than those other times, but it is still a legiti
  
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• Dirk Nowitzki Expects Luka Doncic To Have Another Great Season For Lakers

  05-09-2026 15:10 via lakersnation.com
  
  When Luka Doncic came into the NBA with the Dallas Mavericks, he was taken under the wing by the legendary Dirk Nowitzki, who was in the final year of his Hall of Fame career. The two remain close to this day with Nowitzki even making sure he was in the building for Doncic’s debut game with the Los Angeles Lakers.
  Doncic is now ready to enter his second full season with the Lakers and it is a completely new era now with LeBron James gone. But Doncic has been putting in a ton of work to get
  
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• Kevon Looney: Lakers Willing To ‘Run Through Wall’ For Luka Doncic After Slovenia Minicamp

  04-09-2026 22:10 via lakersnation.com
  
  Kevon Looney is — as things stand — the Los Angeles Lakers’ backup center. That role will involve catching lobs from Luka Doncic, grabbing rebounds and playing defense. But, especially from a veteran like Looney, it will also be a leadership role on and off the floor.There is no doubt, though, that this is Doncic’s team. He all but confirmed that when he covered the expenses for the entire team to fly to Ljubljana, Slovenia for a multi-day team minicamp. Looney took the t
  
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• Court Date Moved To Dec. 9 After Jeanie Buss Files Continuance On Petition To Stop Lakers’ Minority Sale

  04-09-2026 20:27 via lakersnation.com
  
  Not too long ago, Jeanie Buss filed a petition with a Los Angeles Superior Court in order to block her five siblings from executing the sale of their minority shares of the Los Angeles Lakers to new owners Josh Kushner and Bob Iger. This sale would not only completely remove the Buss family from Lakers ownership, but also force Jeanie out as Lakers governor as NBA rules require at least 15% ownership in order to operate in that role.
  The original court date was scheduled for Nov. 5, but now Jean
  
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• Bronny James Talks Offseason Work & Projected Role With Lakers

  04-09-2026 19:15 via lakersnation.com
  
  The Los Angeles Lakers brought in an influx of new players to overhaul their roster from the team that made the second round back in May. At least six of their regular rotation players for this season were not on the team last season, but one of the holdovers was Bronny James.Many wondered when LeBron James left the Lakers and joined the Philadelphia 76ers if that was the end of Bronny’s time with the Lakers. But L.A. fully guaranteed his contract and have given no signals that they are mo
  
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• Lakers Legend Magic Johnson Congratulates Stan Kroenke On Buying Angels

  04-09-2026 18:05 via lakersnation.com
  
  Los Angeles Lakers ownership drama has been in the news for a couple weeks now, but in the meantime, Stan Kroenke quietly entered the picture in MLB and landed a deal with Arte Moreno to buy the L.A. Angels. It’s a massive sale, reported at an MLB record $4.5 billion, and one sure to have less drama than the Lakers sale.Magic Johnson has given his thoughts on the Lakers sale from Mark Walter — and the Buss family — to Josh Kushner and Bob Iger. And now, he has given his thought
  
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• Danny Green Discusses Whether Lakers Ownership Drama Matters To Players

  04-09-2026 16:13 via lakersnation.com
  
  There continues to be a lot of moving parts at the top of the Los Angeles Lakers as the sale of the majority shares of the team from Mark Walter to Josh Kushner and Bob Iger pushes forward. Then, of course, there is the ongoing drama between the Buss siblings and whether they will be able to sell off their minority stake as Jeanie Buss pushes back against that.
  One concern with all of this is whether it could affect the product on the court and if players even care about all of the ownership dra
  
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• Tim Thomas Recalls Kobe Bryant Taking Care Of Him During California Wildfire Incident

  04-09-2026 15:00 via lakersnation.com
  
  Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant was the top player in his high school class back in 1996. Another one of the top players in that class that Bryant was very close with was Tim Thomas, who would go on to have a 13-year NBA career himself.
  Of course, Thomas was once one of the most hated players by Lakers fans because of his infamous 3-pointer in Game 6 of the epic first-round playoff series between the Lakers and Phoenix Suns in 2006. But he and Bryant played AAU basketball together growing
  
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• Walker Kessler Throws Out First Pitch For Lakers Night At Dodger Stadium

  04-09-2026 04:35 via lakersnation.com
  
  Every season, the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrate the Los Angeles Lakers with ‘Lakers Night’ that involves an awesome giveaway for fans in attendance and some players coming in to throw out the first pitch.This year is no different as the team’s biggest free agency addition, center Walker Kessler, was in attendance to throw out the first pitch. Kessler to feel the love that the Lakers get, even at Dodger Stadium, as he took the mound and delivered a strike.Perhaps having one of t
  
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• Mark Walter’s Business Partner Todd Boehly Reportedly Remains Limited Partner In Lakers

  03-09-2026 20:36 via lakersnation.com
  
  The ownership situation for the Los Angeles Lakers is in complete flux right now as Mark Walter has agreed to sale his majority shares to Josh Kushner and Bob Iger. And while questions about the minority shares of the franchise have focused largely on the Buss family, there are other minority owners whose future could be in question as well.
  One of those is Todd Boehly, who is the business partner of Walter and also owns stakes in Chelsea FC of the English Premier League, as well as the Los Ange
  
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• Josh Kushner Expected To Be Lakers’ Controlling Shareholder With Bob Iger As Minority Owner

  03-09-2026 20:05 via lakersnation.com
  
  Ever since news came out that Mark Walter had agreed to sell his controlling shares of the Los Angeles Lakers to Bob Iger and Josh Kushner, there were questions about who would run the team moving forward.
  It appears there is finally some clarity on that as Kushner will be controlling shareholder of the Lakers, not Iger. And because of NBA rules, that will require him to put in nearly $2 billion personally, via Charles Gasparino of the California Post:
  The deal is still under review by the NBA,
  
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• Ziaire Williams Thought Lakers Were ‘Best Fit’ In Free Agency

  03-09-2026 16:10 via lakersnation.com
  
  The Los Angeles Lakers have a brand new roster, with almost no major rotation players left from the team that got to the second round last season. This team is built entirely around the strengths of Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves, and one of the players best suited to help those two is Ziaire Williams.Williams, 24, is a 6’9″ wing defender with good length and athleticism. He is not a great offensive contributor, but has improved each year of his career up to this point from the field
  
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• Channing Frye Believes Luka Doncic Must Change Style Of Play To Win Championship

  03-09-2026 15:00 via lakersnation.com
  
  The Los Angeles Lakers are now firmly Luka Doncic’s team as he is the face of the franchise and the roster was rebuilt around him this offseason. Of course, the ultimate goal is always to compete for and win championships and the question now is whether Doncic can lead a team to that.
  He has come close before, getting to the NBA Finals in 2024 but falling in five games to the Boston Celtics. One person who believes he will eventually succeed in that goal is former NBA player Channing Frye.
  
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• Fans Vote Sandro Mamukelashvili As Lakers’ Fifth Starter

  02-09-2026 22:50 via lakersnation.com
  
  Coming into this season for the Los Angeles Lakers, three starting spots are set in stone with Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves in the backcourt, and Walker Kessler at the center position. While not necessarily a lock, most believe Quentin Grimes will also be a starter considering what he brings as a two-way player.
  That fifth spot seems to be up in the air, however, with multiple different possibilities depending on what the Lakers are looking for. But if the Lakers fans get what they want, it wil
  
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• Arn Tellem Recalls How He Orchestrated Getting Kobe Bryant To Lakers In 1996 NBA Draft

  02-09-2026 20:21 via lakersnation.com
  
  The late, great Kobe Bryant is, in the eyes of many, the greatest Los Angeles Lakers player of all-time and one of the greatest basketball players period. But he almost never suited up for the purple and gold and it took a lot of maneuvering ahead of the 1996 NBA Draft to make that happen.
  Then-Lakers general manager Jerry West was enamored with Bryant, but it was unclear whether he would be able to move up high enough in the draft to have a chance at taking him. Bryant’s agent at the time
  
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