The Los Angeles Lakers hosted a field day and backpack giveaway for students from Crete Academy and Carr Elementary School. Showtime Laker Michael Cooper was a surprise guest, giving youth advice while joining in on their field day activities.
The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Tampa Bay Rays 3-1 on Sunday, going 2-1 in their weekend series.
Cal State LA assistant men’s basketball coach Michael Cooper, a five-time National Basketball Association champion during a legendary career with the Los Angeles Lakers, has been elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
NBA great Byron Scott will be the featured speaker at the 5th Annual Awards Gala sponsored by the Concerned Black Men of Los Angeles (CBMLA). The event is set for Saturday, August 10, at 6:45 p.m., at the DoubleTree by Hilton, 6161 Centinela Ave., in Culver City.
Long before he was the leading scorer of the NBA, Showtime Lakers phenom Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was a teenager who was granted an opportunity to speak with Dr. Martin Luther King.
The Los Angeles Lakers have hired Kurt Rambis as Senior Basketball Advisor, it was announced Friday by President of Basketball Operations Earvin “Magic” Johnson.
Notes, quotes, and things picked up on the run from coast-to-coast and all the stops in between and beyond.
These line ups had the skill and force to earn winning streaks, sweep teams in the playoffs and hoist up the Larry O‘Brien trophy at the very end of seasons.
The Black Alumni Association and the UCLA Afrikan Student Union hosted a conversation and book signing with NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for his new book “Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court.”
Spectrum SportsNet doted upon their new customers by allowing them to meet Worthy during their cable installation.
Johnson gave HIV positivity a new face, a face that would be shunned by members of the sports world at that time.