Kobe on Gary Payton: "He helped me become a great defensive player. He told me one thing, he said 'Kobe, you gotta move your puppies'. After he told me that, everything clicked for me, I started making All-Defensive teams."

ESPNLA "It was a big part of our defensive drop." - Luke Walton on what the Lakers are missing with Lonzo's absence.

Charania Timberwolves star Karl-Anthony Towns is expected to miss several weeks with his calf strain sources tell me and JonKrawczynski Great news Tests showed no structural damage to Towns Achilles

For the Mavericks Steve Nash gets Shaq on a switch and it's BBQ chicken blows by him AND finishes with a beautiful teardrop over Kobe

Payton Pritchard hits the shots with 0.2 seconds elft in the 4th