Bill MacDonald is in his fifth season as the Lakers television play-by-play announcer on Time Warner Cable SportsNet, though he’s covered Kobe since the very beginning. Calling Kobe’s historic 81-point game will always top the list, but so will that night he raced Bryant home on the 405 freeway. “Since Kobe and I live near each other, he would say to me, after the games ‘Wanna race home?’ But, we never left at the same time, until this one day. I’m driving down the 405 and I see Kobe’s car in front of me. It was stopped and I happened to blow right past him with my fucking hand and my middle finger out the window like ‘Fuck you!’ and I’m screaming at him and what does he do? We proceed to play cat and mouse for the next 25 minutes all the way down the San Diego freeways, breaking all kind of rules.
Bill MacDonald is in his fifth season as the Lakers tel…
April 17, 2024 | 6:57 pm EDT Update
Anthony Slater: Here are Klay Thompson’s free agency related answers today “What’s up with y’all not wanting to live in the present? Ridiculous.” “Well, considering it’s April 17th, I don’t have to pivot that quickly. When’s free agency? July 1st? I got some time.” pic.twitter.com/G7FFlefdnL
Kendra Andrews: Does Klay view his upcoming contract as his last? “Maybe. I don’t know. I’m not trying to put an expiration date on my career. Thanks kind of something you just go by feel.”
ClutchPoints: A look at the LA Clippers brand new practice facility at the Intuit Dome as construction nears its end 🔥 (via @TomerAzarly) pic.twitter.com/N1O1DMRn4w
Tim Reynolds: The US Olympic men’s basketball team, numerical roster: 4 – Stephen Curry 5 – Anthony Edwards 6 – LeBron James 7 – Kevin Durant 8 – Kawhi Leonard 9 – Tyrese Haliburton 10 – Jayson Tatum 11 – Joel Embiid 12 – Jrue Holiday 13 – Bam Adebayo 14 – Anthony Davis 15 – Devin Booker
Ira Winderman: Joel Embiid is in and starting tonight for the 76ers.
Clemente Almanza: Thunder PR: Olivier Sarr sustained a left Achilles tendon rupture during Monday’s G League Finals game pic.twitter.com/tKUnItIC0P
April 17, 2024 | 6:00 pm EDT Update
Klay Thompson on being asked about his future with Warriors: 'What's up with y'all not wanting to live in the present'
Dalton Johnson: “What’s up with y’all not wanting to live in the present, bro?” Klay Thompson reacts to being asked about his future with the Warriors pic.twitter.com/JkU0J7gAB8
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander — who’s the face of the Thunder and will likely finish second in MVP — hushed away the national narratives, stating it’s something they’ve always heard. “I heard that all year. It’s not gonna change,” Gilgeous-Alexander said. “We’re still young, we’ll probably be young for another four, five years. We don’t worry about it. We focus on what goes on in these four walls.”
Now, how quickly Embiid and Maxey can recapture and build upon that partnership — starting with Wednesday’s play-in matchup against the Miami Heat — will largely determine how far they can advance in the postseason. Consider their teammates confident that their All-Stars can click back into place. “It’s going to be easy,” veteran forward Nico Batum said following Saturday’s practice. “I mean, we’ve done it. It was just two months ago. It wasn’t two years ago. It feels like two years ago, but it was two months ago. We’re going to get back to it. “They’re smart guys. We know how to play as a team, as well. So it’s going to be easy.”
Gerald Bourguet: Royce O’Neale is eligible for a 2-year, $20.5M extension now, but it sounds like he’ll wait for free agency. He does like Phoenix though: “For sure, it’s a great place, team, organization…I try not to focus on that. That’s summertime, right now I’m just focused on the playoffs” pic.twitter.com/BAZVsF8RkP
