Oklahoma City Thunder

After the Lakers were booted from the playoffs by a younger and faster Thunder team, Luka Doncic reminisced about what could've been.

The Lakers, despite playing well, were outclassed by the Thunder in a clean sweep. Fantasy basketball analyst Dan Titus examines what's next.

If LeBron James wants to keep playing professional basketball, the Los Angeles Lakers want it to be with them. General manager Rob Pelinka and coach JJ Redick affirmed their desire to keep James in a Lakers uniform on Tuesday. James' eighth season with the club ended Monday night with a heartbreaking 115-110 loss and a second-round sweep at the hands of the powerhouse champion Oklahoma City Thunder.

After being swept by the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Los Angeles Lakers face a franchise-defining offseason centered around LeBron James, Austin Reaves, Luka Doncic, free agency, trades and new ownership.

The Oklahoma City Thunder insist they haven't been perfect during their NBA title defense. The Thunder completed their second straight series sweep of the spring Monday night when they held off the resilient Lakers 115-110 in Game 4 of the second round. Oklahoma City went 8-0 against LeBron James and the Lakers this season — and the defending champs are also 8-0 in these playoffs after back-to-back routs of Phoenix and Los Angeles.

Will LeBron James announce his retirement before the 2026-27 season following the Lakers' series sweep against the Thunder?

OKC is an out-of-control freight train at this point.

The Lakers didn’t get a win against the Thunder, but their effort in each game is something they can be proud of.

In the end, the Thunder killed the Lakers’ 2025-26 season, with the Lakers falling to the Thunder in Game 4 and being eliminated from the playoffs.

LeBron James has options. He could stay with the Los Angeles Lakers. He could decide to join another team. He could even retire and end the longest career in NBA history. He knows all this. He just doesn't know the answer. “I don't know what the future holds for me, obviously,” James said. His 23rd season ended Monday night when the Lakers were eliminated by the Oklahoma City Thunder . At 41, James likely doesn't have many years left to play — if any. And now he'll start the p...

Grading every Lakers player’s performance from the team’s 115-110 Game 4 loss to the Thunder.

Oklahoma City police arrested Mason in a downtown section of OKC known as Bricktown, and he was taken to the Oklahoma County Detention Center.

Game 4 of the Western Conference Semifinals between the Oklahoma City Thunder vs. the Los Angeles Lakers at Crypto.com Arena brought out multiple celebrities including Eddie Murphy, Sean Penn, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Miles Teller in what could be LeBron James' final game.

A spirited final battle cry from the Lakers, led by Austin Reaves, Rui Hachimura and the fans, nearly ended in a win.

LeBron James, whose record-setting 23rd season ended with an unceremonious 115-110 loss to the Thunder in a Game 4 second-round sweep of the Lakers, was noncommittal about whether he will continue playing in L.A. -- or elsewhere.

Luka Doncic says he never got close to being healthy enough to rejoin the Los Angeles Lakers in the playoffs. Doncic incurred a grade 2 hamstring strain on April 2, and the NBA scoring champ missed the Lakers' final 15 games, including their entire postseason run. After a shocking first-round series victory over Houston without Doncic, Los Angeles' season ended Monday night with a 115-110 loss to the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder, who completed a four-game sweep.

In the closest game of the series, the Lakers took the Thunder to the brink before falling in Game 4.

LeBron James says he has no idea whether his 24-point performance in the Los Angeles Lakers' season-ending playoff loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday night was the final game of his NBA career. The top scorer in league history stuck to the strategy he has taken into the past several summers when he declined to announce his future immediately after the Lakers' final postseason defeat. “I don’t know what the future holds for me, obviously, as it stands right now tonight,” the 41-year-o...

It was a gutty performance from the Lakers, but the Thunder are too deep, too skilled, and too good.

NBA legend LeBron James could have played his last game for the Los Angeles Lakers after their defeat by the Oklahoma City Thunder in the play-offs.