When former Los Angeles Lakers teammates Kobe Bryant and Brian Grant teamed up before the 2003-04 NBA season, they were set to be coached by a basketball legend: Hall of Famer Rudy Tomjanovich. While ...

Rudy Giuliani was disbarred in Washington after a three-judge panel in the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals cited his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. File Photo by ...

The Lakers drafted Washington as the fifth overall pick in the 1973 draft and spent the better part of four seasons with the organization. Washington’s best season as a Laker came in 1977, when ...

LOS ANGELES -- Kermit Washington, a former NBA player who notoriously gave a bone-breaking face punch to the Houston Rockets' Rudy Tomjanovich during a 1977 Lakers game, has been arrested by federal ...

The pain didn't show, and though it lasted nearly 25 years, it was accepted as one of those realities of life, like knees that ache in the morning or backs that are sore at night. Newell drafted ...

In a 1977 regular season game, Los Angeles Lakers’ Kermit Washington punched the Houston Rockets’ Rudy Tomjanovich in the face so hard that he fractured his skull and tasted spinal fluid leaking into ...

The NBA announced Sunday morning that former Houston Rockets coach legend Rudy Tomjanovich received the Chuck Daly Lifetime Achievement Award honor for 2024. Tomjanovich spent 12 seasons as a coach, ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Prosecutors have filed charges against former NBA forward Kermit Washington, accusing him of embezzling about a half-million dollars in charitable donations meant to help the ...

WASHINGTON - Kermit Washington had gone back to American University here on many occasions over the years - the night they retired his basketball jersey, the times he needed a gym to run his clinics ...

DENVER -- Rockets coach Rudy Tomjanovich tried to explain how well he felt, how optimistic and excited and fortunate he had become. He was planning scouting trips to Chicago and Europe. He has been ...

HOUSTON -- Thirty years ago, then-head coach Rudy Tomjanovich grabbed a microphone as the Rockets celebrated winning a second straight NBA Finals. He then uttered a phrase that has been echoed on ...