Washington Post To the surprise of most fans, the Los Angeles Lakers have emerged as frontrunners not only in the West, but in the entire NBA. The team has registered wins in tight, comeback and blowout games. What has been surprising is the slow start of the third scoring option. Kyle Kuzma had an amazing, improved second year last season with an 18.7 and 5.5 line. He played 70 games and was seen as the number one scoring option in most of which, with one of the worst injury

SLC Dunk Hey hey hey! The NBA season is finally back and with the surprising studs of opening week, there come the duds. There have been no shortage of duds in less than a week of play but there are definitely some notable names worth a mention who aren’t looking anything like themselves. Mike Conley The Jazz acquired the veteran point guard in a huge trade sending Kyle Korver, Jae Crowder, Grayson Allen, and a pair of first round picks all for Conley in hopes he’d solidify t

SB Nation The Los Angeles Lakers concluded their 2019 preseason campaign with an even 3-3 record. The team saw two great scoring outings to start the preseason and one performance that had fans in Los Angeles upset at 4:30 a.m. However, the Lakers bounced back and played lights-out basketball in front of their home crowd. The opener in Golden State’s brand new Chase Center showed some great promise. No L.A. starter played for more than 18 minutes, letting the mass of preseaso

NBA.com Anthony Davis has been terrorizing inside scorers since entering the league in 2012. Now with some elite teammates and coaches, Davis will have the chance to get out of the first round of the playoffs for the second time in his career. The Brow currently holds a 5-8 playoff record in his seven seasons in the league, with both series losses coming at the Infinity Stone-wielding hand of Golden State. Davis also has his eyes set on a personal goal, winning Defensive Play

NY Post The Los Angeles Lakers have fans hyped for the 2019-20 season of basketball. The team has two top-10 players in its core for the first time since the end of the Kobe-Shaq era. Now, with a pretty strong supporting cast surrounding King James and Anthony Davis, the team will look to hang its 17th banner. How will they get there? Frank Vogel and his All-Star coaching staff have nearly a month and six preseason games to figure out pieces, chemistry and fit. What is lookin

NBA.com Is it really a hot take to say one of the greatest players of all-time will be the MVP? Fans can argue that LeBron James is in the twilight of his career and after one serious injury we might finally see some sort of decline from the King. LeBron missed 27 games last season and instead of raising the Lakers back to relevance he was the anchor for a young Lakers team which reached as high as fourth in the Wild Wild West before tumbling into the lottery. But that was mo

Getty Images Rockets general manager Darryl Morey has rolled the dice once again in hopes of bringing Houston its first title in over 20 years. Morey mortgaged the future sending two first-round picks to Oklahoma City as well as a couple pick swaps away for 2017 MVP Russell Westbrook. Do the picks mean anything to Morey, though? Houston has shown they're new approach to team building: forgo the draft entirely. The team hasn't made a first-round selection since 2015, and that