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LAS VEGAS – Jordan Miller scored 23 points to lead the Los Angeles Clippers to a 95-92 victory over the Houston Rockets in the NBA 2K26 Summer League on Friday at Pavilion.
Luka Doncic‘s manager, Lara Beth Seager, revealed to NBA insider Ramona Shelburne of ESPN how Doncic really feels about playing with LeBron James on the Los Angeles Lakers.
Throughout LeBron James' professional basketball career, he's consistently been the first to know about happenings involving the teams he's played for. That's reportedly no longer the case.
LeBron James doesn’t have a seat at the Lakers’ table anymore. According to ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne and Brian Windhorst, general manager Rob Pelinka and coach JJ Redick had a reservation at the famed Craig’s restaurant in West Hollywood four days after the Lakers’ season ended — but only one Lakers superstar was in attendance. That was Luka Doncic.
Cooper spent his entire NBA career with the Lakers, appearing in 873 regular-season games with the franchise. Though Cooper was mostly utilized in a reserve role, that didn’t stop him from being a key piece in a Lakers organization that won plenty of titles during the 1980s.
According to NBA insider Shams Charania of ESPN, LeBron James feels that the Los Angeles Lakers “are more in a futuristic mindset.” James, 40, wants to compete for a championship next season, but the Lakers haven’t made any title-making moves this offseason.
The Dallas Mavericks were truly blessed with the first overall pick of the 2025 NBA Draft after the tumultuous second half of the 2024-25 NBA season, picking Flagg, whose hype for the draft matched that of even LeBron James back in 2003.
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