Gail Goodrich

Looking Ahead: Miami Heat at San Antonio Spurs

2013-03-30 16:51:00

MIAMI AT SAN ANTONIO: Sunday, 4 p.m. PDT. TV: None. Jerry West and Gail Goodrich may be resting easy, but LeBron James and Dwyane Wade certainly aren't. Now that the Miami Heat can no longer threaten the 1971-72 Lakers' NBA-record 33-game winning streak...

Letters: Plenty of blame to go around for UCLA, Ben Howland

2013-03-29 16:45:00

It's not Ben Howland's fault. Put the blame on UCLA and the NBA. The UCLA basketball program is nothing more than a puppy mill for the NBA. If Alcindor, Goodrich, Walton, Hazzard and Wilkes had left the Bruins after their first or second year during the...

Minnesota could be key to Lakers' playoff future

2013-04-04 20:19:00

addCustomPlayer('1189yw62t2l8f1q7dcyl28cduy', '', '', 600, 418, 'perf1189yw62t2l8f1q7dcyl28cduy', 'eplayer15'); The Lakers hadn't played in days but gained some ground on Utah. If only the rest of their season had been this easy. Their playoff lives,...

Shaquille O'Neal to be elevated to level of great Lakers centers

2013-04-02 00:00:00

If Shaquille O'Neal needed a nickname on his first day as a Laker, it could have been the Big Worrywart. As dominant as he was, the best big man in the NBA recognized he represented just a fraction of the Lakers centers who had come before him. George...

Lakers retire Shaquille O'Neal's jersey

2013-04-02 21:19:00

The Lakers retired Shaquille O'Neal's No. 34 jersey at halftime on Tuesday as the team hosted the Dallas Mavericks. "The most gifted specimen I've ever seen play this game," said Kobe Bryant in a prepared video.� "Historical, the run we had together."...

Lakers acknowledge error in Shaquille O'Neal's retired jersey

2013-04-03 12:13:00

The moment was perfect. The jersey wasn't. On Tuesday night the Lakers retired Shaquille O'Neal's jersey, but they overlooked one not-so-minor detail: O'Neal's name is stretched across the front of a Lakers home jersey instead of the back. "The...

Jerry West is rooting for Miami to keep up winning streak

2013-03-21 12:24:00

Jerry West is rooting for the Miami Heat to keep winning, even if it means the former Lakers great loses one of his top legacies. West said during a teleconference with reporters Thursday that he wouldn’t mind if the Heat broke the Lakers’...

Will the Heat threaten the Lakers' record 33-game winning streak?

2013-03-14 15:30:00

The Miami Heat have won a season-high 20-straight games. At 49-14, the Heat have eclipsed the San Antonio Spurs with the best record in the NBA. Can they catch the all-time number of 33-straight wins set by the 1971-72 Lakers? "I'd say this is the...

Lakers retire Jamaal Wilkes' jersey

2012-12-28 20:50:00

The Lakers retired the jersey of Jamaal Wilkes at halftime Friday night as the Lakers hosted the Portland Trail Blazers. With Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Worthy, Elgin Baylor, Jerry West standing courtside, Wilkes looked up to the rafters to see his...

Lakers 1971-72 championship team reunites for fundraiser

2012-12-19 19:57:00

The 1971-72 Lakers championship team recently came together to raise $150,000 to benefit the West Coast Sports Medicine Foundation. Legendary Lakers including Jerry West, Elgin Baylor, Gail Goodrich, Jim McMillian, Jim Cleamons, Flynn Robinson and Keith...

PASSINGS: Bob Chappuis, Dennis Hamilton

2012-06-22 00:00:00

Bob Chappuis All-American halfback Bob Chappuis, 89, an All-American halfback with the University of Michigan who led the Wolverines to an overwhelming victory over USC in the 1948 Rose Bowl game after an undefeated 1947 season distinguished by his...

L.A.'s greatest sports moments No. 11: Lakers win first title in L.A.

2011-12-06 16:33:26

Members of the Lakers' 1971-72 championship team took part in the West Coast Sports Medicine Foundation Fundraiser on Dec. 8. From left, Jim McMillian, Flynn Robinson, Jerry West, Jim Cleamons, Elgin Baylor, founder of WCSMF Keith Feder, Gail Goodrich and Keith Erickson.

2012-12-08 00:00:00

, former Lakers player, commentator and coach, waves to the crowd as he's honored along with other members of the 1972 Lakers during a ceremony at halftime Friday night.

2012-04-06 00:00:00

Gail Goodrich, left, Lakers coach Fred Schaus and Walt Hazzard in 1965. Hazzard was the Lakers' No. 1 draft pick in the 1964 draft.

2011-11-04 14:30:35