NBA Pacific Division

L.A. Could Get NFL Team By Next Year

An artist's rendering of a stadium proposed in Industry.​Los Angeles could see the return of an NFL football team by next year if the developer of a proposed stadium in Industry has his way. "I strongly believe an NFL franchise will play in Los Angeles for the 2011 season," John Semcken of Ma ... More >>

Ask Mr. Gold: Spain in L.A., or What Would Pau Do?

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: I love this big giant melting pot we live in, but why do we have such little representation of Spanish food? Am I missing something? --Matt Armendariz Dear Mr. Armendariz: Probably because L.A.'s best maker of charcuterie, ... More >>

Meet Your NBA Champion Foodie: Pau Gasol Talks El Bulli, Bazaar, Kobe and More

You probably already know him as the second best player on the defending NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers. But what you probably don't know (unless you read our September interview with Lakers trainer Gary Vitti) is that he's also the team's resident foodie. He is, after all, from Spain. Squid Ink ca ... More >>

Continued Decline For L.A. Crime According To Latest FBI Stats

​It could be a blessing or a curse for new Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck: Rates for major crimes in Los Angeles continued to dip in 2009. With continuing joblessness, a city struggling to find money to hire officers, and a looming release of 40,000 state prisoners, the only direction f ... More >>

Lakers Are The Sports Franchise Of The Decade

Da Lakers.​Yes, another year-end, top-of-the-decade list, this time from Sports Illustrated. The magazine says the Los Angeles Lakers are the sports franchise of the decade. The Staples Center-based ballers beat out the NFL's New England Patriots (number two), the University of Connecticut's w ... More >>

Lakers Proclaimed Most Valuable NBA Team

NBA​The Lakers can add ad another crown to their collection as Forbes magazine on Thursday proclaimed the squad the most valuable team in the NBA. Hot off last season's championship, the magazine valued the franchise at $607 million, which topped the New York Nicks (#2; $586 million), the Chi ... More >>

Ask Mr Gold: The Sunday Meal. Burgers, Beers and Fries

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menuDear Mr. Gold: We have friends in town from Seattle, and they're hungering for a really fine burger, excellent fries and a primo beer selection. (Is there such a place, a place that offers all three under one roof? A place that's open on Sunday? ... More >>

Israeli Basketball Team Robbed at Staples Center

​The LAPD are on the look out for a thief who stole more than $15,000 in cash from Israeli basketball team members while their personal items were in a locker room at Staples Center. Police have a surveillance video of the thief who looks all dapper in a suit and sporting a clipboard and fake ... More >>

Transformers, Bel-Air Brats and Kobe, Oh My! Lakers Parade at Coliseum Brings L.A. Together

Jeff CowanLakers fans: Storm Troopers and Transformer Bumble BeeLos Angeles doesn't really do civic pride. We're too aloof and jaded for that sort of thing. We're a secular, sunglasses indoors, windows up, bowling alone type of town (except that when we bowl, it's usually at some swanky alley with a ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Third Time's the Charm? After being convicted in two federal racketeering trials, former private eye Anthony Pellicano and an associate are to be arraigned this morning in Superior Court on state charges. Pellicano and Alexander Frederick Proctor allegedly conspired to intimidate then-L.A. Times ent ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

E.L.A. Gold Line Fears City and MTA officials worry for the safety of jaywalkers and beat-the-train drivers once the new Gold Line extension's trains begin running through East Los Angeles. L.A. TimesLakers Parade Wednesday morning the championship L.A. Lakers team will parade from Staples Center to ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Gay Pride, Kung Fu Femmes, Jay Reatard, Plus Lakers Win but Downtown L.A. Loses

Sunday night was a winning night for L.A. Weekly at the Los Angeles Press Club Awards ceremony at the Universal City Sheraton hotel. Writers Christine Pelisek, Daniel Heimpel, Gendy Alimurung and Nancy Rommelmann all took home first place awards, while Darrick Rainey, Steven Leigh Morris, Patrick Ra ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Lakers Triumph, Micro-Riot Quelled The L.A. Lakers won their 10th NBA championship as a Los Angeles team, in Orlando, Florida last night, while at home jubilant fans set fires and vandalized cars. Police arrested at least 25 people near Staples Center downtown and, in a smaller action, in the Crensh ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Social Insecurity A federal "desktop raid" that exposed false Social Security numbers of 260 undocumented workers has left a Vernon food processing plant devastated. L.A. TimesEvicted for Following Orders Residents of a North Hollywood apartment building that was foreclosed upon were told by a bank ... More >>

A Little Something for the Lakers Fans: Great Songs About Our Team

It might be a hellish commute tonight with a host of Lakers flag-sporting vehicles anxiously crawling across the freeways in the hopes that their drivers can get home in time to catch the first game of the NBA Finals, where the Lakers square off against Orlando's Magic at 6 p.m. Instead of stressin ... More >>

Esteban Nunez Case: Bad Little Suburban Boys

The son of Fabian Nunez, and his friends, face the music in Lu Santos’ killing

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Eyesore or Landmark? The Century Plaza Hotel and its fate are a bone of contention between city preservationists enamored with its curving, Jet Age architecture, and the hotel's owner, who wants to raze it and raise a mixed-use development in its stead. L.A. TimesNo YouthTube for L.A. Times The city ... More >>

If the Lakers Were Rappers: A Study in Similitude

Prediction: If Kobe doesn't grow a mullet, the Lakers will take it in June. Kobe Bryant = Kanye West Raised in more affluent circumstances than their peers, Kobe and Kanye are not only among the best in their respective fields, they share a severe lack of humility and empathy. Mutually ol ... More >>

Last Night: Underground Lit’s Best Kept Secrets Dan Fante and Tony O’Neill Impress at Skylight Books

By RYAN RITCHIE An interesting poetry reading happens about as often as a Clippers winning season, but that hasn’t stopped thousands of hack wordsmiths from getting in front of audiences to espouse beliefs that no one but the poet’s mother cares about (and even she doesn’t care all that much) ... More >>

LA Live! Opening

Downtown and out — L.A.'s urban renaissance

Best Hot Dog: L.A. Street Dog at Fab's

Laker Mania Sweeps Hollywood

Five hundred Los Angeles Laker fans swarmed the Hollywood Billiards Sports Bar & Grill on Thursday night to watch Kobe Bryant and the boys take on Kevin Garnett and the Boston Celtics in game 1 of a best-of-seven series. The famous rivals were squaring off in the NBA finals for the 11th time and fir ... More >>

Pau Gasol

King Pau

Lakers Beat: Team Dinner

Crowd at Mozza saw the Lakers squad gather in a private dining room to study the Jazz-Rockets game over pizza. Guess who paid?

To Get to the Other Side

Response to articles on Southwest Museum, Obama and more

Paper Dolls

The high road and the low road

9 Reasons to Get On the Clippers Bandwagon

Generation Chef

Fred Eric

Feeling L.A.

Vic "The Brick" Jacobs

9 Reasons To Get on the Clippers Bandwagon

Where Hope Grows Like Fungus

Alpha Coach

Phil Jackson is back in control — and dreaming of a point guard named Oprah

The Moralgorithm

How the little black box knew the Spurs would (probably) win the NBA Finals

The Living City

Los Angeles From Bud to Bloom

Illini in the Air

All Charges Dropped!

A Kobe Bryant timeline

Wedding Day

Letters

El Encuentro Mágico

Laker great stakes claim as Nuevo Ali

Letters

The Lakers Lesson

Maybe the NFL wouldn't be the worst thing for L.A.

Fouling Out

L.A. considers real end games

Letters

Character of the Happy Warrior

The education of Mark “Mad Dog” Madsen

Mood Indigo

The LAPD’s big test

Parks in Charge

Police chief has convention and council firmly under control

Sunny Days, Sultry Nights

Highlighting the events of the season

Some Kind of Blue

Battle of the Bads

The Accidental Populist

Magic Johnson gives some back