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The Los Angeles Lakers celebrate with the trophy after winning the 2020 NBA Championship Final over the Miami Heat in Game Six of the 2020 NBA Finals at AdventHealth Arena at the ESPN Wide World Of Sports Complex on October 11, 2020 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images/AFP The Los Angeles Lakers, fueled by superstar LeBron James’s triple-double, dominated the Miami Heat 106-93 on Sunday to win a record-equalling 17th NBA championship but their first in a decade. James added another chapter to an epic career, delivering 28 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists as he captured his fourth NBA title with a third team. He earned NBA Finals Most Valuable Player honors for a fourth time, and said the accomplishment had a special flavor with the Lakers. “This is a historic franchise and to be a part of this is something that I’ll be able to talk about and my grandkids and kids will be able to talk about — their pawpaw played for the Los Angeles Lakers,” James ... » Learn More about Lakers win 17th NBA title, dominate Heat in Game 6

Anthony Davis #3 of the Los Angeles Lakers reacts with his daughter Nala after winning the 2020 NBA Championship over the Miami Heat in Game Six of the 2020 NBA Finals at AdventHealth Arena at the ESPN Wide World Of Sports Complex on October 11, 2020 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images/AFP Anthony Davis didn’t let his long-awaited first shot at an NBA title get away. The 27-year-old averaged 27.7 points, 9.7 rebounds, 3.5 assists. 1.4 blocked shots and 1.2 steals to help the Los Angeles Lakers finish off the Miami Heat in six games in the championship series, teaming seamlessly with LeBron James to propel the Los Angeles Lakers to their first title in a decade. Davis scored 34 and 32 points in the first two games as the Lakers grabbed a 2-0 lead in the series. His imposing size — he’s 2.08m tall with a wingspan of 2.27m — make him a force at the rim, but he also excelled from three-point range and at the foul line and was a dominant defensive ... » Learn More about Lakers’ Davis relishes first NBA title after turmoil, trade

(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 05, 2020 NHL commissioner Gary Bettman prepares for the first round of the 2020 National Hockey League Draft at the NHL Network Studio in Secaucus, New Jersey. – The National Hockey League has given its 31 teams the green light to play a 56-game season that will begin January 13 without any pre-season games. The owners and the players’ union announced the deal on December 20, 2020, but because of continuing Covid-19 pandemic restrictions, there were still a lot of logistical issues to work out, including where the league’s seven Canadian teams will play. (Photo by Mike Stobe / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP) Circle Jan. 13 on your calendars, NHL fans. The NHL and NHL Players’ Association made official what was rumored earlier this weekend Sunday, when they announced an agreement on a 56-game regular season that’ll start Jan. 13 and end May 8. The season had been on hold because of ongoing concerns with the coronavirus pandemic that ... » Learn More about NHL announces 56-game regular season starting Jan. 13

FILE – Anthony Davis #3 of the Los Angeles Lakers, LeBron James #23 of the Los Angeles Lakers and Quinn Cook #28 of the Los Angeles Lakers kneel during the National Anthem with VOTE shirts on prior to the start of the game against the Denver Nuggets in Game Three of the Western Conference Finals during the 2020 NBA Playoffs at AdventHealth Arena at the ESPN Wide World Of Sports Complex on September 22, 2020 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images/AFP The voting rights group backed by basketball star LeBron James is kicking off a new campaign to fight Republican-led efforts to tighten voting requirements in Georgia and other states that could restrict access for Black voters and Democrats. The group, More Than A Vote, will start by running a 30-second advertisement narrated by James during the televised NBA All-Star Game in Atlanta on Sunday. “Look what we made happen,” the Los Angeles Lakers star says in the ad, as images flash of demonstrations protesting the ... » Learn More about LeBron’s voting rights group focuses on Georgia with NBA All-Star Game ad

Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James stands on the court during the third quarter of an NBA basketball game against the Los Angeles Clippers, Thursday, July 30, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (Mike Ehrmann/Pool Photo via AP) LeBron James vowed no let up in the fight for social justice as the NBA’s virus-hit season made an emotional return in Orlando on Thursday. Los Angeles Lakers star James and players from the Los Angeles Clippers, Utah Jazz and New Orleans Pelicans all kneeled in unison during the US national anthem before their respective games in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. James, who scored the winning points for the Lakers in a 103-101 defeat of the Clippers, said players were determined to use their NBA platform to fight racism and police brutality. “This is an opportunity to use this platform to spread a lot of positives, a lot of love throughout the course of the whole world,” James said. “We understand what’s going on in society right now and we’re ... » Learn More about No let-up in racism, brutality fight—LeBron

Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James (23) celebrates with his teammates after they defeated the Los Angeles Clippers in an NBA basketball game Thursday, July 30, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (Mike Ehrmann/Pool Photo via AP) LAKE BUENA VISTA, Florida— LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers showed some rust. They knocked it off with time to spare. Anthony Davis scored 34 points, James had the go-ahead basket with 12.8 seconds left and the Lakers moved closer to clinching the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference playoffs by topping the Los Angeles Clippers 103-101 on Thursday night in the second game of the NBA’s re-opening doubleheader. James had 16 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists to help the Lakers move 6 1/2 games ahead of the Clippers in the West with seven games remaining. Kyle Kuzma added 16 points. “It felt like a real game to me, two teams battling. … Can’t complain for the first game,” Davis said. Paul George had 30 points and Kawhi Leonard scored 28 for the ... » Learn More about LeBron’s go-ahead basket lifts Lakers past Clippers in restart

FILE – NBA Commissioner Adam Silver waits to speak at the Los Angeles Lakers championship ring ceremony before the season opening game against the LA Clippers at Staples Center on December 22, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. Harry How/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Harry How / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) NBA commissioner Adam Silver says the league won’t require players to be vaccinated against COVID-19, but if progress continues against the virus the league can play a normal schedule in “relatively full” arenas next season. “Roughly half of our teams have fans in their arenas right now and if vaccines continue on the pace they are, and they continue to be as effective as they have been against the virus and its variants, we’re hopeful that we’ll have relatively full arenas next season as well,” Silver said Saturday in a virtual press conference on the eve of the All-Star Game in Atlanta, Georgia. Silver said there are no plans for any overseas exhibition or ... » Learn More about Silver: No COVID-19 vaccine mandate for NBA players

Bombastic impresario Allan Carr threw the Hollywood parties that defined the 1970s. Image: IStock via AFP Los Angeles, United States – Warner Bros. has announced plans for a $100 million cable car to take tourists from its studio lot to the iconic Hollywood sign, an area increasingly choked by tourist traffic. The company, one of Tinseltown’s “Big Six” film distributors, told city officials on Monday it would put up the entire funding for the “Hollywood Skyway.” The six-minute ride would extend more than 1.6 kilometers from Warner’s base in Burbank up Mount Lee to a visitor center near the sign, with pathways to a viewing area, according to the Los Angeles Times. The iconic studio behind “Casablanca” and “Gone with the Wind” didn’t respond to AFP’s request for comment but circulated a statement saying the project would “reduce street congestion, improve safety, and ease neighborhood frustrations.” “Given our close proximity to the north side of the Hollywood sign, we believe ... » Learn More about Warner Bros. plans $100-M cable car project to Hollywood sign

LOS ANGELES: Detectives are looking at data from the “black box” of Tiger Woods’ SUV to get a clearer picture of what occurred during the Southern California rollover crash that seriously injured the golf star, authorities said Wednesday (Thursday in Manila). The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said traffic investigators executed a search warrant on Monday to retrieve data from the device from the Genesis SUV that Woods was driving. There was no immediate information regarding what was found in the black box, Deputy Trina Schrader said in a statement. The 2021 GV80, made by the Hyundai luxury brand, is likely to have a newer version of event data recorders nicknamed “black boxes” after more sophisticated recorders in airplanes. The devices store a treasure trove of data for authorities to review. Woods suffered a serious leg injury when the SUV he was driving went off a Los Angeles County road and rolled over on a downhill stretch known for crashes. Sheriff Alex ... » Learn More about Probers look at Woods’ ‘SUV black box’

LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLORIDA – OCTOBER 09: Danny Green #14 of the Los Angeles Lakers reacts during the fourth quarter against the Miami Heat in Game Five of the 2020 NBA Finals at AdventHealth Arena at the ESPN Wide World Of Sports Complex on October 9, 2020 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Sam Greenwood/Getty Images/AFP ORLANDO – Los Angeles guard Danny Green said he wasn’t fazed to receive death threats on social media after missing a late three-pointer in the Lakers’ game-five loss to Miami in the NBA Finals. Green said he and fiancee Blair Bashen, a former collegiate volleyball player, had both received threats after the Lakers were unable to clinch a title on Friday. “I had to ask, ‘Are you getting death threats?’ And she said, ‘Yeah, you are too,’ and I was like, I don’t know, because I don’t ... » Learn More about Lakers’ Green received death threats after NBA Finals miss