Ron Harper won five NBA titles with the Lakers and Bulls. His son Dylan was the second overall pick Wednesday, joining a ...

Presti was presented with another route that would require some lean years but had the potential to give his franchise ...

The Pacers and Thunder face off Sunday night in Oklahoma City in the first Game 7 in the NBA Finals since 2016 and just the ...

Yesterday, it was revealed that the Buss family has sold majority control of the Los Angeles Lakers at a $10 billion ...

The Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana Pacers will play the 20th Game 7 in NBA Finals history. Here are all the ones that came ...

Being eliminated in the playoffs is never a good thing, but there’s a certain solace in knowing you were only beaten by the ...

The Minneapolis Lakers' George Mikan, right, grabs a rebound in front of teammate Herman Schaefer during their BAA game against the Washington Capitols in this Jan. 31, 1949 file photo in Minneapolis.

The name was chosen to honor "the Land of 10,000 Lakes" and the long sturdy ore boats ("lakers") that navigated Lake Superior, according to the 2008 book "Mr. Basketball: George Mikan, the ...

Throughout the history of the NBA, few teams have been able to separate themselves from the rest of the pack to create such a global brand. Amongst those giants are the Los Angeles Lakers, along ...

The likes of Wilt Chamberlain, Shaquille O’Neal, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar are constantly brought up, but the first great big in Lakers, and NBA history, was George Mikan. NEWSLETTERS Emailed Daily.

Mikan, a 6'10" center out of DePaul University, played with the then-Minneapolis Lakers from 1947-54, retired, then returned for the second half of the 1955-56 season. He was a four-time NBA All ...