The Showtime Lakers of the 1980s may have been the greatest NBA team ever, but even they made some pretty big mistakes.

The Los Angeles Lakers have had quite a few legends walk through their doors and one of the franchise's most iconic players ...

The latest Los Angeles Lakers Showtime-era star to be named to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is set to be feted in style come October. The Hall ...

Michael Cooper's Hall of Fame induction highlights his key role in the Lakers' Showtime era on October 13, 2024.

After failing to reach the NBA Finals, the Showtime Lakers nearly pulled off a huge trade that could've prevented them from ...

Los Angeles Lakers' Michael Cooper is being enshrined in the Hall of Fame by teammates Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and ...

Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar are among the Los Angeles Lakers greats that will honor Jerry West at his third Hall of ...

The Los Angeles Lakers are optomistic that their new signing, center Christian Koloko, will play this upcoming season.

One simple coin flip in 1979 set into motion a large part of NBA history, and Magic Johnson knows very well how differently ...

As Jeff Pearlman recounted in his excellent book about those Showtime Lakers, assistant coach Mike Thibault, as well as West, who was then a scout, both agreed that Nance was the man to take if he ...

West transitioned into coaching, spending three seasons on the Lakers’ bench before taking the reins in the front office. There, he built the “Showtime” Lakers, a juggernaut of the 1980s that ...

The purple band on the left shoulder of the Lakers' uniforms has No. 44 in gold at the center. West played his entire 14-year ...