LOS ANGELES Kobe Bryant scored 24 points, hitting 14 of 15 free throws, and the Los Angeles Lakers pulled away with a dominating third-quarter run for a 122-99 victory over the Indiana Pacers on Tuesday night.Andrew Bynum added 16 points and Pau Gasol had 14 points and 16 rebounds for the defending NBA champions, who fell [...]

OAKLAND, Calif. Stephen Curry scored 32 points and made the go-ahead free throw in the final minute after a technical foul on Jamal Crawford to help the Golden State Warriors rally from an 18-point deficit and beat the Atlanta Hawks 108-104 on Sunday night.Playing with only eight healthy players, the Warriors scored 16 straight points [...]

DENVER, Players All-Star Carmelo Anthony and Chauncey Billups appeared to inspire and support the Denver Nuggets 127-91 victory over the Dallas Mavericks in the competition continued American NBA basketball, Tuesday.Anthony scored 19 points after not playing for eight games because of ankle injury while Billups contributed 16 points after missing one game, also because of [...]

The Grammy winners are all set to perform during the NBA All-Star game on Feb. 14. The game will air live at 8 p.m. EST on TNT. Shakira will perform two songs from her latest CD, “She Wolf”; Keys will perform new and old hits. The divas will go on during the halftime show.
Usher will [...]

MEMPHIS, Tenn.  Kobe Bryant scored 44 points, passing Jerry West as the Los Angeles Lakers’ career scorer, but it wasn’t enough as the Memphis Grizzlies got 22 points and 17 rebounds from Zach Randolph to defeat the Lakers 95-93 on Monday night.Rudy Gay led Memphis with 25 points, and his 3-pointer with 29.5 seconds left [...]

BOSTON Kobe Bryant made amends for a poor shooting game by sinking a spectacular game-winning jumper as the Los Angeles Lakers edged the Boston Celtics 90-89 on Sunday.Bryant drilled a difficult 15-footer with 7.3 seconds left despite the close attendance of Ray Allen, who then went on to miss a three-point attempt as time expired [...]

Philadelphia  A listless game between the Lakers and 76ers on a cold Friday night became a showdown between Kobe Bryant and Allen Iverson.Bryant and Iverson raised the temperature of the game in the second half, the two of them taking the game over, giving the crowd inside Philadelphia’s Wachovia Center something to get excited about.The [...]

Lakers 31, Pacers 29 (first quarter)The Lakers attacked the undersized Indiana Pacers inside, going hard at them with seven-footers Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol.But they weren’t the only ones.The rest of the Lakers went at the Pacers inside as well, going in for layups.The Lakers scored 18 of their  points inside the paint against the [...]

Washington It was time for one last victory lap, seven months later, in the memorable confines of the East Room in the White House.The Lakers met with President Obama on Monday, continuing the annual tradition of an NBA champion’s visiting the White House, though this one had to be unique, accompanied by presidential trash talk [...]

MIAMI  LeBron James and Dwyane Wade walked off the court at halftime, smiling toward each other after an epic performance worthy of superstars.At game’s end, only James left happy.James hit two free throws after a scary tumble and blow to the head with 4.1 seconds left for the winning points, and Wade missed a jumper [...]