Author: Soccerhuz
The Los Angeles Lakers have undergone many changes in the past 10 months, both on and off the court. From a coaching change to a massive roster change, the Lakers have been going through one thing after another. However, as we sit in mid-April, it seems to have paid off for L.A., at least at the moment. The Lakers will enter the playoffs as the No. 3 seed in the West after securing 50 wins in the regular season, a feat that many deemed impossible in October. Still, the Lakers have managed to silence a lot of skeptics. While many…
The Los Angeles Lakers opened the preseason and regular season against the Minnesota Timberwolves, and now they’ll open the postseason against them as well. The No. 3 seed Lakers will host the No. 6 Timberwolves in the first round of the 2025 NBA playoffs. Game 1 is Saturday in Los Angeles. Los Angeles closed the regular season short-handed in a 109-81 road loss to the Portland Trail Blazers on Sunday. The Lakers finished the season 50-32 — a three-win improvement from last season that led to a five-seed jump from No. 8 to No. 3 (the Lakers finished last regular…
The NBA hasn’t released the full schedule for the first round of the playoffs, but Game 1 start times have been revealed and the Minnesota Timberwolves and Los Angeles Lakes will get the primetime slot when they begin a best-of-seven series on Saturday. The league announced Monday morning that Game 1 between the Wolves and Lakers will tip off at 7:30 p.m. CT and be televised nationally on ABC. The Lakers are the No. 3 seed and will have home-court advantage against the sixth-seeded Wolves. Games 1 and 2 are in Los Angeles. Games 3 and 4 will be in…
Tammy Abraham’s future is quite unclear currently, with AC Milan still deciding whether to make a move next season. However, the first steps are being made, it seems. The Englishman’s season has been difficult to assess, with the loanee struggling at times with injury and poor performances. However, when at his best, the striker has looked to be a big player for Milan, and this is needed within the club. If nothing else, the former Chelsea man provides a different option to Santiago Gimenez. Additionally, he is seemingly getting over the worst of his injury history and proving to be…
Summer will be a crucial time for AC Milan. The club needs to decide not only on the name of the coach but also the future of certain players. Yet, the Rossoneri are still holding back. Details: According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, everything hinges on the appointment of a new sporting director. Currently, the main candidate is former Lazio executive Igli Tare, and it seems he will be the one to tackle these personnel issues. In addition to appointing a coach, believed to be Massimiliano Allegri, Tare will have to decide the future of six players. Two of them,…
Transfer information is picking up around the Etihad Stadium just days after Hugo Viana formally started work at Manchester City having left Sporting Lisbon earlier than first agreed during the last Autumn. The Portuguese official is due to replace Txiki Begiristain as the club’s director of football this summer while prospective targets for the summer market and contract talks with existing stars had been put on hold until the 41-year-old arrived at the club. Now, with Viana and Begiristain working day-to-day alongside one another at the City Football Academy offices, plans for the off-season and transfer market are well underway…
Ex-Juventus head coach Massimiliano Allegri has emerged as a top candidate for the managerial position at AC Milan. As per La Gazzetta dello Sport, Igli Tare, the frontrunner for the sporting director role at Milan, has handpicked Allegri as his first choice to lead the project with Rossoneri. Tare will hold talks with Milan CEO Giorgio Furlani over the sporting director position this week. Former Tottenham Hotspur chief Fabio Paratici was also linked with the sporting director job at Milan, but the talks collapsed due to legal issues. Milan may look to bring in a new manager in the summer…
Matteo Retegui is currently enjoying the best season of his life, and he wants to keep his scoring form going this weekend against AC Milan. The Italian striker has been one of the biggest revelations of the season, and perhaps even recent years, with Atalanta signing him as a desperation move. However, he has been superb for La Dea, scoring 23 goals in Serie A so far, and with 30 well in his sights. Earlier in the season, the attacker was not involved in the starting lineup, though both strikers on that day scored – Charles de Ketelare and Ademola…
A’ja Wilson and LeBron James don’t just have league MVPs and championships in common, they are also Nike athletes with their own signature shoes. As such, Wilson awesomely just surprised LeBron’s youngest son with a sweet gift the high school state champion shared on social media. The Las Vegas Aces center and three-time WNBA MVP is also an All-Star off the court with her fit game as well. In fact, she was just seen at the Masters in an all-white stunner with Allisha Gray taking in the golf in Augusta Georgia. Besides styling with her fits lately, Wilson launched her…
The summer mercato is quickly creeping up on us, and AC Milan need to make some decisions about the way forward. However, with no sporting director in place, there are limits in place. With decisions about a sporting director taking so long, Milan are left in a purgatory, where they cannot really make any decisions about the future, considering it may not align with the new ideas. So, it is quite a standstill. However, ideas can still be had about the future, and conversations can begin to take place about what may be right for the club moving forward. This…