Pau Gasol News

A seemingly random sequence of numbers which may be of little relevance outside of playing the lotto, but not to the Los Angeles Lakers.

By The Elias Sports Bureau and ESPN Stats & Information The Spurs, who host the Jazz on Thursday, have won 20 consecutive home games against Utah, dating back to May 1999.

After shuffling through last season coping with a raft of injuries and a lack of depth, the Mavericks beefed up the roster in the offseason in an attempt to push the team back into contention.

Many people will disagree with him being on the list, I'm sure. Statistically, he looks pretty average.

Mike Bresnahan covers the Lakers for The Times and ties up loose ends on the day of his self-designated "Lakers game of the week." The Lakers play tonight at Denver.

LeBron James likes to talk. But he has been talking too much lately, and his constant yakking has left him with some 'splaining to do.

Because his right hamstring had been slow to heal, Lakers forward Pau Gasol decided to undergo an examination, one facet of which was a sonogram that revealed he might have a slight tear.

Mike Krzyzewski wants more gold medals and NCAA titles, but more than anything, he craves the moments.

Basketball has long been an American pastime - the game was invented in Massachusetts and has been played primarily in the United States and dominated by America-born players for the majority of its century-plus existence.

MADRID ? It's a preseason game for both teams. Starters may not be the same as they will be in the regular season, the rotation certainly will not, and even if the game's on the line late, there may be an NBA All-Star and/or Olympian ? or two or three or four ? watching from the bench.

MADRID ? They went from a British city where Basketball still is as foreign to many as driving on the wrong side of the road to one in Spain where the game is not just familiar but actually rather popular.

A serious grab bag of entries from around the blogosphere this week, though in light of international tours, David Stern's vague non-proclamations, and the imminent tipoff to the season, all things basketball were a bit overshadowed by the NBA beast.

Low Priced Vacations to America with Tickets to the Best NBA Games of the Season.

Isn't he? The league announced last week that Kobe Bryant sells more NBA jerseys in Europe than any other player.

Greivis Vasquez didn't gravitate to baseball. The expectation was that he should.

As Madrid's bid team for the 2016 Olympics returned to Spain on Saturday, questions remained over what went wrong alongside speculation over another run in 2020.

Two weeks after the Lakers won the NBA championship, Pau Gasol jumped on an airplane and headed home to Spain, to the island of Ibiza for 10 days of sun and fun.

St. Francis - The last time Ersan Ilyasova put on a Milwaukee Bucks uniform, he was a timid 19-year-old and still far from ready to contribute in a significant way.

The race for the 2016 Olympics concludes Friday in Copenhagen, where the International Olympic Committee will select Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro or Tokyo as the Summer Games host.

Spain won their first European basketball crown last night, cruising to a 85-63 triumph over Serbia in last night's final in Warsaw.