Los Angeles Lakers

Russell Westbrook says he is 'all-in' on doing whatever it takes to help the Los Angeles Lakers win games in 2022-23.

“I’m super grateful and blessed to be able to go compete year after year, and that’s all I can do is prepare myself, my mind, my body for as long as I play. “I’m going to make mistakes. While that is not a role he is accustomed to, the former MVP says he is willing to do whatever it takes to help the Lakers win: He takes accountability for his shortcomings though and believes he is prepared to prove the doubters wrong this season: “I’m not even close to being done,” Westbrook said. “I need to just do my job.

LeBron James is preparing for his 20th NBA season at the age of 37, and the Los Angeles Lakers star is poised to break several records.

If we go back to 2021/22, LeBron played 56 games for the Lakers. But LeBron doesn't want to be left behind and the top 10 is within reach. The 'King' will enter the season with 1,366 games played and has the top 10 within reach. If he continues to perform, he will be the league's new scoring king, with fewer games played than Abdul-Jabbar. [NBA](https://www.marca.com/en/basketball/nba.html) season at the age of 37, and the Los Angeles Lakers star is poised to break several records. [Andre Iguodala's last dance with the Warriors: He'll play for one more season](https://www.marca.com/en/basketball/nba/golden-state-warriors/2022/09/25/6330463746163f153d8b4620.html)

During an interview with ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski in his Century City office, Los Angeles Lakers point guard Russell Westbrook discussed his tenuous ...

The best [potential deal](https://www.si.com/nba/lakers/news/pacers-lakers-talked-myles-turner-buddy-hield-trade-last-weekend-ak1987) currently on the table, a trade with the Indiana Pacers for 3-and-D center Myles Turner and ace shooting guard sniper Buddy Hield, seems to be similarly hung up on the particulars of these first-round draft picks. The Lakers certainly don't want Westbrook to be in L.A., as evinced by their various offseason efforts to add other veteran point guards. Westbrook doesn't want to be in L.A. Woj notes that there is no guarantee Westbrook will still be in Los Angeles by the end of the season (it would be best for all parties were he to be moved, in this writer's opinion), and also dropped an interesting tidbit. "I'm going to make mistakes. "I'm all-in on whatever it takes for this team to win," Westbrook said.

Los Angeles Lakers point guard "There's so much optimism on how we can be great, how AD, LeBron, myself -- can be unstoppable in my opinion," he said. This.

"I think the most important thing is that I show up for work and I do the job like I've always done it: Be professional and go out and play my ass off and compete." "I'm all-in on whatever it takes for this team to win," he said. The Lakers' star trio failed to live up to expectations in their first year together. Los Angeles went 33-49 and failed to make the playoffs. [expressed](https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/wizards/new-lakers-head-coach-darvin-ham-introduced-russell-westbrook-shows-support) his excitement to have Westbrook on the roster when the team hired him to replace Frank Vogel. [speculation](https://sports.yahoo.com/sources-lakers-nets-discussing-kyrie-irving-russell-westbrook-trade-233348495.html) that the Lakers would seek to trade the 33-year-old.

Former Florida State star Dwayne Bacon has signed with the Los Angeles Lakers, the team announced Monday. As a second-round pick in 2017, Bacon spent 4 ...

[What's next for the Florida State Seminoles? While the Lakers have never been short on headlines, they opened some eyes trading for Patrick Beverley with Russell Westbrook still on the roster. In his last season in the NBA, he started 50 games for the Magic while averaging 10.9 PPG.

It was reported yesterday that your Los Angeles Lakers were moving towards adding two new perimeter pieces ahead of training camp this week.

In his 30 G League appearances split between the Grand Rapids Gold and the Maine Celtics last season, Ryan averaged 19.4 points, 3.4 rebounds, two assists, and 0.7 steals per contest. After four seasons in the NBA from 2017-2021, the FSU product linked up with French team AS Monaco Basket in 2021-22. [tweeted](https://twitter.com/Lakers/status/1574551268453801984) that the team has signed 6'7" small forward Matt Ryan and 6'6" small forward/shooting guard Dwayne Bacon. University of Tennessee at Chattanooga alum Ryan first joined the Grand Rapids Gold, the Denver Nuggets' NBAGL affiliate, last season, before eventually linking up with the Boston Celtics on a two-way contract in February 2022, though he played in just a single game for Boston, spending most of his time with the team's G League club the Maine Celtics. was preparing to ink Ryan to a non-guaranteed contract (suggesting longer-term interest), while Charania mentioned that Bacon's deal would be an Exhibit 10 training camp deal. He may wind up with the South Bay Lakers, L.A.'s El Segundo G League team, but his chances of making the team's 15-man standard roster to start the season are slim to none, as L.A.

We have one of the great players in LeBron James to ever play the game on our team, and he committed to us with a long-term contract, a three-year contract. So ...

The Lakers have a clear objective, one that Pelinka uttered himself, and that’s to put LeBron James in the best position possible as he hopefully finishes out his career in Los Angeles. So if you make that trade, and I’m not talking about any particular player on our team, but if you make that trade, it has to be the right one, you have one shot to do it. But there’s definitely a deal out there that makes the team better if Pelinka is willing to back up his words with meaningful action. We have one of the great players in LeBron James to ever play the game on our team, and he committed to us with a long-term contract, a three-year contract. That means Pelinka and the front office have to get this right: [a short explainer on the Stepien rule](https://basketball.realgm.com/article/249279/CBA-Encyclopedia-Stepien-Rule) to the assembled media — that the Lakers only really have one opportunity to make an impactful deal. They also don’t have any useful matching salary because only four players are making more than $10 million, and of those four, the Lakers are only willing to move Russell Westbrook. So yes, Pelinka has to be careful about what comes next, but he made his own bed. So of course, we will do everything we can, picks included, to make deals that give us a chance to help LeBron get to the end. Pelinka isn’t wrong about the task the Lakers are facing. With LeBron James on the team, anything short of contention is a failure, especially at this point in his career when he has limited years remaining. That leaves the picks.

Returning Lakers head coach Phil Jackson was more in favor of a "four-year college player," Kupchak indicates in newly-recorded interview footage for the ...

In the 2013 offseason, a reeling Bynum signed a two-year deal with a non-LeBron James iteration of the Cleveland Cavaliers worth [2005 "re-draft"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIEB40hHMxo), The Ringer's Bill Simmons and Ryen Russillo ultimately chose Bynum with the eighth pick, behind former Knicks/Warriors power forward David Lee, a two-time All-Star (originally taken with the No. Maybe in the regular season, but when his club really needed him in the playoffs, his body just refused to fully cooperate. Los Angeles would go on to lose in a 4-1 second round "gentleman's sweep" to the ascendant Oklahoma City Thunder. All told, Bynum appeared in just 418 regular season games from 2005-2014, averaging 11.5 points on 55.6% career shooting from the floor, plus 7.7 rebounds, 1.2 assists, and 1.6 blocks. Bynum's last stop on his tour of the Central Division was with the Indiana Pacers, coached by future championship-winning Lakers head coach Frank Vogel. Under head coach Mike Brown, the Lakers would go on to finish with a 41-25 record and the West's No. He averaged 6.3 points, 3.7 rebounds and 1.4 blocks a game in those playoffs, a far cry from his regular season averages of 14.3 points, 8.0 rebounds, and 1.8 blocks a night. "The fact was he didn't understand the game, how to win," Abdul-Jabbar said of Bynum's readiness during his rookie season. Next, he tore the MCL in his right knee in February 2009, and had to play while managing the injury with a knee brace during the 2009 postseason. Buss and Kupchak the import of selecting 17-year-old seven-footer Andrew Bynum with the 10th selection straight out of St. In this week's stirring eighth episode of director Antoine Fuqua and executive producer Jeanie Buss's documentary limited series "Legacy: The True Story Of The L.A.