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After taking the high road throughout the Lakers’ series with the Grizzlies, which kicked off with Memphis guard Dillon Brooks calling LeBron old, King James celebrated L.A.’s series-clinching win over Memphis by letting Jay-Z do the talking for him. On Saturday, LeBron took to Twitter and threw shade at Brooks and the Grizzlies’ young core by sharing lyrics from “Trouble,” a track from Hov’s first post-retirement album, 2006’s Kingdom Come. “Unlike you I’m a grown ass man/Big shoes to fill grown ass pants/Probably…

Howdy, I’m your host, Houston Mitchell. Let’s get right to the news.From Dan Woike: The golden yellow sticks flashed throughout the arena, LeBron James standing at the opposite end of the court at the free-throw line taking in the game and the moment around him.To his right, Kyrie Irving sat courtside. Ahead of him on the left in his seat, Jack Nicholson.This had to have been the kind of night James envisioned when he picked the Lakers in 2018, the crowd full of stars, the stakes incredibly high and the spotlight on him…

Photos from the Lakers' 125-85 win over the Memphis Grizzlies in Game 6 of their first-round NBA Western Conference playoff series. Photos from the Lakers' 125-85 win over the Memphis Grizzlies in Game 6 of their first-round NBA Western Conference playoff series. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their…

The golden yellow sticks flashing throughout the arena, LeBron James standing at the opposite end of the court at the free-throw line taking in the game and the moment around him.To his right, Kyrie Irving sat courtside. Ahead of him on the left, Jack Nicholson was in his seat.This had to have been the kind of night James envisioned when he picked the Lakers in 2018, the crowd full of stars, the stakes incredibly high and the spotlight on him and his team.Pregame, James greeted them both.Friday, it was all his — the…

Howdy, I’m your host, Houston Mitchell. Let’s get right to the news.From Dan Woike: LeBron James jogged backward down the near sideline, his lips pursed after another jumper rattled in and bounced out.James and the Lakers were getting avalanched, but a run to undo a 17-point deficit got them to within a point before the Memphis Grizzlies smothered them with a barrage of baskets.Memphis beat the Lakers 116-99 on its home floor Wednesday night in Game 5, extending the series to a sixth game Friday night in Los…

Ignore the talk about the Lakers belonging to Anthony Davis, or being inspired by Austin Reaves, or riding Rui Hachimura.Listen, instead, to a wordless scream directed into the face of courtside fans.Hear the loud, sweaty smack of a fighting rebound torn from the arms of a Memphis Grizzly.Feel the relentless elbowing rush to the basket in the throes of game-saving desperation.C’mon, who are we kidding here?As all the above scenes illustrated on a night when greatness showed up dressed in grind and grit, the Lakers are…

Old engines take longer to warm up.LeBron James and Anthony Davis, the Lakers’ veterans who carry the most responsibility and the heaviest burdens, weren’t good enough for the first 48 minutes.Well, the first 47 minutes and 59.2 seconds.With 0.8 left in regulation, James hit a high-arching bank shot to force overtime, and with extra minutes to make the previous four quarters right, James and Davis took over, scoring the Lakers’ first nine points in a 117-111 overtime victory over the Grizzlies.James punctuated things…

First it was the Lakers. Then it was a returning Ja Morant. And in between, it was a defensive-first playoff game, one Lakers fans have been waiting nearly a decade to witness.With a full crowd watching a playoff game for the first time since 2013, the Lakers delivered a massive blow early and then held off one of the NBA’s biggest young stars in a 111-101 win Saturday at Crypto.com Arena.The Lakers lead the series 2-1.Anthony Davis scored 31 and LeBron James added 25, the two playing in front of a sellout crowd after…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. —  It was about as good of a chance as the Lakers could’ve hoped for.On their sixth night in Memphis, the Lakers faced a Grizzlies team without its best player and leading scorer, Ja Morant, another blow to a team that already was playing without two of its top big men.Instead of grabbing control of their first-round playoff series, the Lakers let it start to wiggle free.They lost Game 2, 103-93 on Wednesday night, the Grizzlies’ swagger refilled even with Morant watching from the sideline.Afterward, the…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. —  On the short walk from the interview room at FedExForum to the visiting locker room, Rui Hachimura reviewed his mental catalog of career highlights.Nothing he found could top what he did in the Lakers’ playoffs opener Sunday. Considering the team for which he was playing and what was at stake, he now counted his performance in the 128-112 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies in Game 1 of their first-round series as the greatest of his career.“I really like the big stage,” Hachimura said in Japanese. “In…