In a rare interview, Magic was asked to name the best catcher among the Showtime Lakers. According to Johnson, nobody was ...

Perhaps the best era of Los Angeles Lakers basketball was the Showtime Lakers era. That team with Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was almost unstoppable. Those Lakers teams won five ...

Wilt Chamberlain explains why his legendary 1972 Lakers squad, despite a 33-game winning streak, may have been "mediocre" ...

Some of the greatest players in the history of your Los Angeles Lakers got together for a Maui blowout, and apparently the fun didn't stop after they hit the hardwood. As we reported earlier, several ...

The Golden State Warriors may have set the record for wins in a season and are two games away from capturing a second straight NBA championship, but don't tell Magic Johnson they could beat his ...

The rivalry between Larry Bird's Boston Celtics and Magic Johnson's Los Angeles Lakers largely defined the NBA in the '80s. Some consider these teams the collective saviors of the league when it ...

The Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers' rivalry in the '80s was one of the greatest phenomena that defined the NBA. Every time those two teams met, it was a spectacle as every player on the ...

The Indiana Pacers had a chance to close out the Knicks in five games on Thursday night. They were trying to close out a third team in five games, as they haven't had a long series yet. Instead, they ...

Below is an excerpt from the new memoir from Hall of Famer Michael Cooper, COOP: The Making of a Showtime Lakers Legend. The text is taken from Chapter 7, in which Cooper talks about iconic coach Pat ...

On Thursday, actor Jason Segel and Eighth Grade director Bo Burnham became the latest to sign on to the cast of an as-yet-untitled HBO drama chronicling the Los Angeles Lakers’ “Showtime” era of the ...