Former Loyola Marymount basketball coach Paul Westhead filed a $1 million defamation suit Thursday, accusing an attorney for Hank Gathers` family of blaming him for the college player`s death last ...

Paul Westhead and Magic Johnson had a strained relationship. When Paul Westhead took over the LA Lakers coaching early into Magic Johnson's rookie season, the former assistant coach stuck to the ...

EUGENE -- On a hot July day at a crowded In-N-Out Burger outside Las Vegas, Paul Westhead was reminded of the remarkable length of his basketball life. The Paul Westhead file Born: Philadelphia ...

Paul Westhead’s circuitous coaching journey has taken him to the University of Oregon, where in March the former Lakers and Loyola Marymount coach was hired to lead the struggling women’s ...

There's something cultish about how Paul Westhead and his former players discuss "The System" − the coaching style that has earned him NBA and WNBA titles, launched the most exciting college ...

EUGENE -- When Paul Westhead meets his new players for the first time next week, his message will be simple: "Bring your running shoes." Promising a fast-paced game that he hopes will bring ...

Paul Westhead has written a book called “The Speed Game: My Fast Times in Basketball,” and it not only describes the way he wanted his teams to play, but also his career.

Riley admirably stepped up with Westhead no longer in the picture. Led by Riley after Westhead was ousted, the Lakers were 50-21 (.704) to end the season and Los Angeles went on to win another ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Paul Westhead listens intently over the phone as he’s told for the first time that his famed basketball doctrine — the fast-paced, run-and-gun, full-court-press ...

Paul Westhead has the opportunity, by osmosis, to gain some of that for himself. I don’t want to give away much about season two but learning how to wield your own ego is not an easy thing.

Jason Segel has joined HBO’s still-untitled series about the 1980s L.A. Lakers. Segel will play Paul Westhead, head coach from 1979-1981, who oversaw the Lakers’ 1980 NBA championship win that ...