Time was when we would all have been making something: knitting, sewing, painting, quilting, woodwork, pressing wild flowers, writing a journal, making pots or baskets, mending everything.

LeBron James returns to Cleveland on Wednesday for the first time since leaving last summer and signing with the Los Angeles Lakers. He's coming back to a city still grappling with losing him.

This was hardly the ideal way for LeBron James and his Los Angeles Lakers to cap what amounted to an eventful week of highs and lows.

The LA Lakers lost LeBron James in the third quarter to a strained left groin before going on to beat the two-time defending champions Golden State Warriors on Christmas Day.

Joel Embiid scored 28 points, Jimmy Butler added 20 and the Philadelphia 76ers led throughout in a 121-105 victory over the short-handed Los Angeles Lakers on Tuesday night.

LeBron James scored 29 points and Brandon Ingram added 27 as the Los Angeles Lakers rallied from a 19-point deficit midway through the third quarter to defeat the Houston Rockets 111-106 on Thursday night.

The Lakers (31-41) will miss the play-offs for a franchise-record sixth straight season even with James, who fell just short of his 81st career triple-double with 25 points, 14 assists and nine rebounds.

LeBron James was quick to congratulate Liverpool after their stunning comeback against Barcelona on Tuesday night. He has been a minority stakeholder in the club since 2011.

Zion Williamson. Two words eagerly anticipated in the NBA next season. He is expected to take the NBA by storm to the extent that LeBron James did when he was drafted No 1 in 2003.

While Toronto Raptors' maiden NBA Finals win captured the imagination of basketball, fans are now brimming with excitement ahead of the draft on Thursday night in Brooklyn, New York.

Cristiano Ronaldo has once again got the better of rivals Lionel Messi and Neymar after the Portuguese superstar beat both to top the Instagram Sport Rich List for 2019.

The Boomers may have gone into Thursday nights Australia versus USA all-star basketball match at Melbourne's Marvel Stadium as underdogs, but they are going toe to toe with the visitors. 

Basketball season returns on Tuesday night in what is bound to be the most exciting NBA season in recent memory. Sportsmail asks and answers the 10 key questions for the next eight months.

Camera crews were given rare access to Magic City, in Atlanta, Georgia where they spoke to strippers who earn upwards of $100,000 a year for Channel 5's Sex Business documentary.

Seventeen devastating wildfires have continued to burn up and down the state of California on Tuesday razing through more than 94,000 acres of land.

James hit a pair of clutch 3-pointers in the waning minutes to seal another impressive win for the Lakers, who haven't lost since their season opener against the Clippers.

LeBron James produced another bit of magic in Los Angeles Lakers' 130-127 win over Oklahoma City Thunder on Friday night, as he claimed a great catch before setting up Kentavious Caldwell-Pope.

LeBron James keeps on cementing his place as one of the greatest-ever NBA players after reaching another milestone on Wednesday night as the Los Angeles Lakers beat the New Orleans Pelicans.

Luka Doncic scored 21 of his 27 points in a dynamic second half and Kristaps Porzingis added 15 points as the Dallas Mavericks snapped the LA Lakers' 10-game winning streak with a 114-100 victory.

They improved to a 23-3 record, which extended their second-longest road winning streak in franchise history to 13 games and rallied from a double-digit deficit to win for the eighth time already this season.

Domantas Sabonis scored 26 points and Malcolm Brogdon made a tiebreaking reverse layup with 36.4 seconds left on Tuesday night to give the Indiana Pacers a 105-102 victory over Los Angeles.

Buoyed by a perfect five-game homestand, the Denver Nuggets hit the road and kept on winning. Paul Millsap scored 21 points and the Nuggets dominated the second half in defeating the Lakers.

Kevin Hart, 40, grimaced as 6ft 10inch LA Lakers star Anthony Davis landed down on top of him just three months after he suffered three spinal fractures in a horror crash.

Los Angeles Lakers have paid tribute to Kobe Bryant by lining every seat in the 20,000-capacity Staples Center with his retired No 24 jersey ahead of the first match since his tragic death.

The date for the memorial is February 24, 2020, which was a conscious choice. Two was Gianna's jersey number, 24 was Kobe's and 20 is the amount of years he was a Laker.

LeBron James may have two Olympic gold medals to his name already but the NBA superstar has cast doubt about whether or not he wishes to compete for a hat-trick of titles.

A basketball card featuring both Chicago Bulls legend Michael Jordan and Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James, as well as logo patches from their respective jerseys, has sold for a record $900,000.

NBA ROUND-UP: Some things never change and the Los Angeles Lakers continued to gather steam heading into the play-offs as they won on Friday night to stay top of the Western Conference.

Details have emerged from the Lakers' team flight back to Los Angeles on January 26, when they learned Kobe Bryant had died, prompting LeBron James to lead a group prayer circle.

LeBron James keeps finding ways to assert his supremacy over the upstart New Orleans Pelicans and rookie sensation Zion Williamson - with or without the help of Anthony Davis.

The shirt was worn by James in February as the NBA's best players descended on Chicago for the 69th edition of the All-Star game. Giannis Antetokounmpo and James were the captains.

The NBA wants its teams to prepare to play games without fans if necessary because of the coronavirus crisis, but LeBron James says he won't play basketball in an empty arena.

Anthony Davis scored 30 points, LeBron James added 28 and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Clippers 112-103 on Sunday, ending their Staples Center co-tenant's six-game winning streak.

On Saturday, the app was sitting at 57th place on the US charts, well below rival streaming services Netflix, Hulu and Disney Plus.

The film's star LeBron James took to social media on Thursday with a brief clip in which he wore a promotional cap for the film that revealed the film's full title, Space Jam: A New Legacy.

The stars will appear in Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020, a one-hour long special honoring graduates and airing on multiple channels May 16.

Lagree is the workout of choice for celebrities and royalty, from Meghan Markle to Michelle Obama and the Miss Universe Australia models. It is a unique form of training using a 'megaformer bed'.

The TV presenter, 35, followed in the footsteps of Michelle Obama as she visited the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School in London on Wednesday.

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is one viewer who's 'not interested' in tuning in if former foreign minister Julie Bishop gets her own television talk show.

Speaking at Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans on Saturday, Michelle Obama said Republicans and Democrats turned the 'strength of a black woman' into a 'caricature'.

Tickets for 'A Moderated Conversation with The Former First Lady' at the Prudential Center in Newark started going on sale, Friday. VIP packages are offering tickets for $2500 each.

Michelle Obama, 55, has praised Meghan Markle, 38, for 'breaking the mold' during the 10-day Africa tour. The former First Lady also dubbed her 'an inspiration' for all of her charity work.

Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice will hit bookshelves on November 19 said Penguin Random House in a press release, almost one year after the Michelle Obama memoir.

Barack and Michelle Obama are new entries on The Hollywood Reporter's 100 most powerful people in entertainment, thanks to their foray into the film making industry and a deal signed with Netflix.

The 2019 charts feature J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Michelle Obama's memoir Becoming. Food bloggers and now authors of Pinch of Nom join them.

Julia Roberts is travelling to Kuala Lumpur with Obama for the Obama Foundation's inaugural Leaders: Asia-Pacific convening in the Malaysian capital on Tuesday.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's proposals will continue to erode Michelle Obama's legacy by easing restrictions on the types and quantities on fruit and vegetables put on the table.

Emily Monckton picked out a selection of colourful items for effortless workwear style this spring. British style expert suggests taking inspiration from Jackie Kennedy and Michelle Obama.

Michelle Obama's first effort to get out the vote in 2020 has been cancelled due to coronavirus concerns.

The former First Lady shared a series of handwritten thank you notes to frontline workers around the world amid the coronavirus outbreak, one of which included a fan tribute to Stacey.