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LeBron James and Russell Westbrook are clearly excited to get their Lakers team-up started.

Photo by David Dow/NBAE via Getty Images The Los Angeles Lakers are looking to improve on a disappointing 2020-21 NBA season where they had to make the playoffs by playing games in the play-in tournament, all in the same season when they were defending their 2020 NBA championship. Their hope? To get a veteran point guard? Who do they want to get? A Wizards player of course! Okay, it’s a bit more complicated than that. In an article by Marc J. Spears of The Undefeated, the Lakers are interested in bringing in a veteran point guard this offseason even though LeBron James is their point guard...

LeBron James wants to retire with Lakers? By Zac Wassink  |  Last updated 7/12/21 Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James has four NBA titles on his Hall of Fame resume, helped end Cleveland's championship drought that lasted 52 years and guided the Lakers to NBA Finals glory in October 2020.  Per Harrison Faigen of Silver Screen & Roll, James explained on the "SmartLess" podcast with Will Arnett, Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes that he doesn't ever want to play for a different franchise.  "I truly hope that I can finish my career with the Lakers," James reportedly said. ...

Photo by Adam Pantozzi/NBAE via Getty Images There has been another firestorm of Wizards coaching news and I almost missed this one. So let’s go. Anyway, Los Angeles Lakers assistant coach Phil Handy has interviewed for the Washington Wizards vacancy in June, according to Kyle Goon of the Orange County Register. Based on the timing, he interviewed in the first round, but it’s unclear whether he is also in the second round. Handy has been an assistant coach for the Lakers in two different stints. Besides his current stint since 2019, he was also with the Lakers from 2011-13. Handy was also...

Comments Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images More than a few teams will come into the 2021 NBA offseason looking for a starting point guard, be it through free agency, the draft or a trade.  Dennis Schroder is one of the better options available on the free agent market, joining players like Kyle Lowry, Lonzo Ball and Spencer Dinwiddie. But one scout is skeptical of Schroder.  "I like Schroder, but don't like him running the team as No. 1 point guard," that scout told Marc Berman of the New York Post. "I question his leadership and shooting." Schroder, 27, ...