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You don’t have to warn Mike Brown about expectations next season with the Lakers. This is, after all, the guy who lived with the would-be championship burden of LeBron James sitting on his back in Cleveland. Sure, the Lakers have added Dwight Howard and Steve Nash, among others, to their roster this summer. Sure, he can feel those 16 previous championships staring down from the rafters and the record books.

The Lakers have put together a deal to hire former Cleveland Cavaliers coach Mike Brown as their new coach, an NBA official who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter said late Tuesday.

Mitch Kupchak wanted a little advice from his predecessor as the Los Angeles Lakers general manager after his two-time NBA champions lost to the lowly Cleveland Cavaliers. That handbook you left me on how to be a great general manager doesn t include a chapter on what to do after a game like last night, Kupchak said to Jerry West.

The Lakers hit the All-Star break broken....

The Los Angeles Lakers humiliated the Cleveland Cavaliers while sending them to their 11th straight loss, rolling to a 112-57 victory on Tuesday night in their best defensive performance in the shot clock era....

Cleveland showed its Christmas Day win over the Los Angeles Lakers was no gift as LeBron James scored 37 points, including 12 straight down the stretch, and the Cavs beat Kobe Bryant and the NBA champions 93-87 on Thursday night.

Cleveland Cavaliers starting point guard Mo Williams will miss Thursday's game against the Los Angeles Lakers with a sprained left shoulder.

Until the foam started flying, the Cleveland Cavaliers had everything under control while dealing the defending NBA champions a loss they should remember until summer....

There will be no Kobe-LeBron showdown in the NBA finals -- and that could make things tougher for the Lakers.