Dwight Howard's Orlando return offers Lakers chance to bond

The Lakers won three of four games in Week 19, climbing above .500 (33-31) and into a potential playoff seeding. The coming week will be a difficult one with three out of four on the road, including games on successive nights, in Orlando and Atlanta

There is no comparing the 2010 Heat to the 2012 Lakers, a super team to a super tease, except Dwight Howard is heading back to Orlando and he, too, could use a few friends sprinkled among 20,000 enemies. Tuesday night will be difficult for Howard, who

Charles Barkley held court with the media this week to talk about the Lakers, Deandre Jordan and Twitter, and so much more.  Share on Facebook ·  Tweet post · 1 Comments. It's always fun when Charles Barkley decides to give an interview and ramble

Dwight Howard is hugging me in the Lakers' locker room before Sunday's game. I know I've become close with the team, but what does it say when a Laker wants to hug me more than the wife does? Now I could understand the hug maybe a month or so ago

Orlando Sentinel columnist Mike Bianchi said Magic fans should give Howard a standing ovation Tuesday, though it was with tongue firmly planted in cheek, layered among references to Howard as Kobe Bryant's "sock puppet" and the Lakers as his "new