If you’re one of the many Lakers fans out there ignoring all this lockout stuff and simply waiting until your team gets back to all its usual winning, the awakening is going to be quite rude.… ...

What is the Lakers expected cap space? The Lakers currently have five players under contract for next season: LeBron James — $53.3 million; Anthony Davis — $40.6 million; Mo Bamba — $10.3 ...

The Lakers are well on their way to put together their superteam, their veritable Voltron of championship-caliber basketball players. The one thing they are completely without just a couple days ...

Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James is opting into his $52.6 million player option for the 2025-26 season, his agent Rich Paul told ESPN's Shams Charania on Sunday.

The Lakers will also need to make a decision on the $2.1 million 2023-24 salary of another new Laker, Davon Reed, who was basically a throw-in for LA's Thomas Bryant trade to the Denver Nuggets.

Now that Irving has asked to be traded ahead of the Feb. 9 trade deadline, the Lakers may tilt even further in the direction of not clearing cap space this summer.

LeBron James' two-year deal came in approximately $2.7 million below the $104 million max, sources told ESPN, helping the Lakers avoid salary cap restrictions that could affect their team building ...