LOS ANGELES (AP) - Bill Sharman effortlessly straddled both sides of the Celtics-Lakers rivalry, winning championships and making friends from Boston to Los Angeles during a unique basketball career.

PALOS VERDES, Calif.-- It was an absolutely beautiful day on the Palos Verdes peninsula as a memorial service/celebration of life was held for former Lakers coach and two-time Basketball Hall of Famer ...

Selected as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History during the league’s 50th anniversary season (1996-97), Bill Sharman spent 23 years as a Special Consultant with the Lakers. Providing the ...

Bill Sharman, an All-Star guard for the Boston Celtics in the 1950s who became coach of the Lakers and led the team to its first NBA championship in Los Angeles in record-setting fashion, died Friday.

Bill Sharman, a Hall of Fame basketball player and coach who guided the Lakers to their first National Basketball Assn. title in Los Angeles in record-setting fashion, has died. He was 87. Sharman, ...

Since the Lakers came to Los Angeles in 1960, two people that never set foot on the actual basketball court stand out as constantly impactful contributors. The first is that of legendary broadcaster ...