Dwight Howard's 6 Biggest Screw-Ups With The Lakers This Season

It was not the sort of season Steve Nash envisioned when he agreed to a trade last summer that brought the 17-year NBA veteran point guard to the Los Angeles Lakers. See more: ...

LOS ANGELES — The virtual worst-case scenario has become the Lakers reality. No Kobe Bryant No Steve Nash (two epidurals, one cortisone shot). No Steve Blake. No Jodie Meeks. Mike DAntoni made it official pregame: Your Lakers starting backcourt is ...

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Steve Nash needed three injections for pain relief on the Los Angeles Lakers' day off. He's still more likely to play in Game 3 on Friday night than Steve Blake or Jodie Meeks. And just in case anybody forgot, Kobe Bryant is at ...

By Mark Lamport-Stokes, ReutersLOS ANGELES--The ailing Los Angeles Lakers faced an even tougher task against the San Antonio Spurs in Friday's Game 3 when veteran guard Steve Nash was ruled out shortly before the tipoff because of back and hip ...

The Lakers will have a most valuable player in their backcourt Friday. It won't be Kobe Bryant. It may not be Steve Nash. That could leave Andrew Goudelock, selected as MVP of the NBA's Development League on Thursday after a season's worth of ...

SAN ANTONIO -- He was the last one to climb off the trainer's table, trudging through the musty high school gym Monday with the pained look of a kid who had just left detention. "It's not great," Steve Nash said, shaking his head. "It's not going to ...

PHOENIX -- Thomas Wolfe said it, and Steve Nash has now lived it. "You can't go home again." Boy, was that ever true for Nash, the former two-time league MVP with the Phoenix Suns, who returned to his former city twice this season and came up empty ...

=== === El Segundo, CA (Sports Network) - Already minus one former league MVP for their Western Conference quarterfinal series, the Los Angeles Lakers will likely have to make do without another one for Friday's pivotal Game 3 clash with the San ...

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