The Lakers' defensive specialist was more than that. "If we don’t have Coop, we don’t win those series," former Lakers ...

Defense -- not offense -- was Cooper's calling card, and it helped the Lakers claim 5 NBA titles during the 1980s. Steve ...

Lakers fans know and remember new Hall of Fame inductee Michael Cooper as a defensive stopper, but he was also an outstanding ...

Today, October 13, 2024, 33 years after his retirement, Michael Cooper is in the Hall. And also on this day, Jerry West ...

Former Lakers wing Michael Cooper, a five-time NBA champion, is now officially a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball ...

West is the first to be a three-time inductee; Cooper welcomed for contributions to “Showtime” Lakers championships.

S howtime-era Los Angeles Lakers legend Michael Cooper never made an All-Star team during his 12-year NBA run. He didn't even ...

Boston essentially returns the same team from last season and appears well-equipped to make another deep run. One of the ...

On April 1, around 9:15 a.m., Michael Cooper’s phone rang with the news that he finally had been elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He was sitting next to his wife ...

Daisy May Cooper says her This Country co-star was visited by a “presence” that correctly predicted when exactly he would die ...

Fox Sports’ Michael Irvin had some words on the matter. More specifically, the Dallas Cowboys Hall of Famer compared Cooper ...

When Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame chairman Jerry Colangelo called former Los Angeles Lakers Showtime-era legend Michael Cooper on April 1 this year ...