This was JJ Redick’s response when asked about the challenges of closing out a team in a playoff series. His team experienced it firsthand when the Houston Rockets staved off elimination in Game 4.

LOS ANGELES — The location of the Thunder-Lakers series switched from OKC to LA, but nothing else changed. It was still a contest where the Lakers had to play to perfection to win and the Thunder just ...

The Los Angeles Lakers were without Anthony Davis on Sunday night as he rested with a calf strain, but they did not need him and perhaps thanks to his absence, newcomer Marc Gasol was able to have his ...

An hour before tipoff of Game 5 against the Houston Rockets, the word came down that Austin Reaves was available to play for the Lakers, his wait over, his oblique strain no longer an issue. Reaves, ...