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Los Angeles is currently the No. 9 seed in the Western Conference.
The Lakers are still fighting to make the NBA playoffs, but LeBron James thinks the team should be aiming higher than just that. 
After making his return from injury on Sunday during L.A.’s loss to the Bulls, James indicated that he’s hopeful the Lakers can finish the season among the top six teams in the Western Conference. 
Following Sunday’s loss, the Lakers sit in the ninth seed in the West, though only 1.5 games separate them and the Warriors for sixth place in the conference.

Caitlin Clark finished with 41 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds as the Hawkeyes beat Louisville to reach their first Final Four since 1993.

This year’s Final Four features a No. 4-seed favorite along with three first-time participants, a fitting field for a college basketball season that didn’t have any truly great teams.
Welcome to a Final Four nobody predicted but many saw coming. The specifics—three first-time programs, two mid-major conferences, zero teams from the top three seed lines—are stunning, but the general upheaval shouldn’t be.
Men’s college basketball was torqued inside-out like an umbrella in a windstorm this season, so this is an appropriate result.

Fans who watched sports live reported lower levels of loneliness.
Most people take for granted that playing sports is good for the body. However, new research indicates that merely watching sports live may be good for the mind as well.
Participants in a study conducted by Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England who attended live sporting events reported lower levels of loneliness and higher levels of life satisfaction than those who did not, according to a paper published in Frontiers in Public Health.

History repeated itself on Sunday as the Miami coach led the program to its first Final Four on the anniversary of his legendary Elite Eight win at George Mason.
For the second time in his career, Miami coach Jim Larrañaga will lead a team into the Final Four after guiding the fifth-seeded Hurricanes past No. 2 Texas in the Elite Eight. But, while Miami’s first-time berth will have its own place in NCAA history, for Larrañaga, Sunday’s win carried added significance considering it came exactly 17 years after the start of his first legendary Final Four run.

Inside the NBA’s Charles Barkley can’t help but speak the blunt truth, especially on the latest episode of “60 Minutes.”
The NBA legend, who’s led an equally successful career in broadcasting, touched on several buzzing topics in the league. One person he notably called out, in typical Chuck fashion, was Kevin Durant.
NBA’s Player-Driven League Fuels Guys Like Durant
On the program, Barkley called out Durant for being too sensitive toward outside criticism. Barkley painted that level of softness among NBA players as a broader issue of today’s league.

The Hawkeyes’ superstar stands alone in Division I history.
Caitlin Clark is in a league of her own.
The Iowa superstar achieved some jaw-dropping history on Sunday during the Hawkeyes’ Elite Eight tilt against Louisville.
Clark, who piled in 15 of Iowa’s 25 first-quarter points while adding four assists, became the first Division I basketball player in NCAA history to record 900+ points and 300+ assists in a single season. No other player in men’s or women’s Division I NCAA basketball history has achieved the feat, according to The Sporting News.

The past and present Suns forwards have traded words in the last two months.
In almost quarter of a century on TNT’s Inside the NBA, Hall of Fame forward Charles Barkley has never been afraid to make his opinions known. 
After all, the Round Mound of Rebound’s legendary broadcasting career has spanned nearly a third of NBA history. During that time, Barkley’s contemporaries have given way to younger generations of players given over to different values.

Miami, SDSU and FAU had never been to a Final Four before this year, a star contrast to last year’s tournament which featured college basketball’s blue bloods.

The Los Angeles Lakers dropped the ball in a critical game against the Chicago Bulls on Sunday afternoon, falling back to below .500 (37-38).
Eating up the disappointing loss was ex-Lakers guard Patrick Beverley, who singled out Lakers superfan Shannon Sharpe and also cussed out home fans at Crypto.com.
Patrick Beverley Gets Revenge Over Lakers
Beverley’s blood was surely boiling when the Lakers traded him in February to the Orlando Magic before the trade deadline, then got bought out to join the Bulls.