DETROIT — The dust settled and the Los Angeles Lakers talked the expected talk following the expected script in a wild game against the young Detroit Pistons. Fracas ensues. Technicals and ejections.

Nobody expected tonight’s NBA Cup matchup between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks to be derailed. In the middle of the high-stakes night marking Anthony Davis’s first game back in LA, ...

It was the latest chapter in the Brooks-James rivalry. Mike Christy / Getty Images PHOENIX — Dillon Brooks admitted Wednesday that he got “out of character a little bit, out of my body a little bit,” ...

The final seconds in Phoenix brought noise, tension, and another chapter in a rivalry that refuses to cool. As the Lakers clung to a narrow margin, Dillon Brooks rose and buried a bold three over ...