Love him or hate him, Bruce Springsteen is notorious for his dedication to his audiences, performing his guts out for hours on end through thousands of shows over the course of a 50-plus year career. The average Springsteen concert is longer than the average professional football game, and regularly goes far longer. His longest show ever was four hours and six minutes long, an overseas affair. His longest U.S. concert was in Philadelphia and clocked in at four hours and four minutes. Easy to do when you start out in your teens, right? Not so fast. Bruce knocked out those 244 minutes last October, less than a year shy of his 70th birthday.

“You can’t find one other team in our league right now that has to rely on that much every single night from their young guys,” James said.

LeBron James is aware the Lakers haven’t lived up to expectations, but he doesn’t think the team’s youth is to blame.

Instead, the 34-year-old star came to the defense of his teammates and said he doesn’t think the amount of pressure placed on his young teammates is fair.

LeBron James overtook his boyhood idol and inspiration, Michael Jordan, for fourth on the NBA's all-time scoring list Wednesday, making history with a driving layup for the Los Angeles Lakers in a home loss to Denver.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Boston Celtics guard Kyrie Irving will miss Wednesday night's game against the Sacramento Kings with a bruised left thigh.

Irving played the previous night in Golden State, recording 19 points and 11 assists in 30 minutes of a 128-95 victory for the Celtics.

Irving is Boston's leading scorer at 23.4 points per game, along with 7.0 assists and 4.9 rebounds.

It feels like we just played this team or something. Personally, I am not at all a fan of playing the same team twice within a week or two let alone in back to back games. It feels like the Jazz have done that an awful lot this season.

The Boston Celtics have played with a decided lack of joy in recent weeks. Every game had become a slog. In Oakland, there was plenty of joyful noise, as the Celtics rolled over the Golden State Warriors 128-95. This was the Warriors worst home loss under Steve Kerr.

By Michael Angelo S. Murillo

THE now-rolling San Miguel Beermen get back to PBA Philippine Cup action today, facing off with the NLEX Road Warriors in the 7 p.m. main game at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.

Carmelo Anthony has been linked to LeBron James and Los Angeles all season, but according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Lakers are reportedly “pausing talks on a possible contract agreement” with him.

According to the report, the Lakers will consider signing him only in the unlikely event that Los Angeles turns its season around and makes a playoff push — LA is 4.5 games behind San Antonio for the West’s No. 8 seed as of March 4. If the Lakers don’t, those minutes will be given to younger players.