Roland Lazenby

The Los Angeles Lakers are and always have been one of the NBA's most interesting, exciting, and even glamorous teams. Now Roland Lazenby, author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller Mindgame: Phil Jackson's Long Strange Journey and the critically acclaimed Mad Game: The NBA Education of Kobe Bryant,...

"Mindgames" follows the journey of Phil Jackson to the top of basketball's coaching hierarchy, a rise that took him from obscurity in the Continental Basketball Association to nine championship rings in the NBA. Along the way he turned multimillionaire players on to meditation, transformed the Micha...

In 1946, Boston hardly seemed like a city where basketball's most successful franchise would take root and grow. It was a hockey town, and original Celtics owner Walter Brown knew almost nothing about basketball. Still, as head of the Boston Garden-Arena Corporation, he jumped at the chance to own p...

When fans heard those words from beloved announcer Chick Hearn late in the game, it meant another Lakers victory was assured. And there have been plenty of victories to go along with 16 World Championships during the club's history from Minneapolis to Los Angeles, all described in detail inside the ...