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LeBron James will become the 24th NBA player at the age of 40 to play deep into the season as he continues to win the battle against Father Time.

The Lakers finally landed Dorian Finney-Smith via a trade that sent D'Angelo Russell, Maxwell Lewis and three second-round picks to the Brooklyn Nets.

Anthony Davis finishes with 36 points and 15 rebounds and Austin Reaves has 26 points and 16 assists with LeBron James out because of illness in a 132-122 win.

Beginning Saturday against Sacramento, 11 of the Lakers' next 14 games are in Los Angeles. Ten will be at home, and the other will be the Lakers' Intuit Dome debut.

Austin Reaves knows he was once pegged as a long shot for the NBA, and that's why winning a game for the Lakers on Christmas means so much to him.

Austin Reaves scores on a layup with just over a second left to secure a 115-113 win for the Lakers, who survived a Warriors surge without Anthony Davis.

Albert Sanders Jr. has worked at Google and in the Obama administration, but he knows his most challenging task awaits in his role overseeing NBA officials.

LeBron James finishes with 28 points and a triple-double but comes up short on a game-tying three-pointer at the buzzer in a 117-114 loss to the Pistons.

LeBron James has 32 points as the Lakers get a second win in Sacramento in three days, exorcising past demons of being dominated recently by their rivals to the north.

Lakers star LeBron James surpasses Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to become the NBA's all-time minutes played leader in the Lakers' 113-100 win over the Kings.