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The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Lakers' franchise was founded in 1946 in Detroit, Michigan, as the Detroit Gems in the National Basketball League (NBL) before moving ...
The Lakers won one NBL and five BAA/NBA championships in Minneapolis before relocating to Los Angeles for the 1960–61 NBA season. The Lakers went on to lose all of their six appearances in the NBA Finals in the 1960s, despite the presence of Elgin Baylor and Jerry West. In 1972, the Lakers compiled a 33-game winning streak, the longest streak ...
1972–73 >. During the 1971–72 season the Los Angeles Lakers won their first National Basketball Association (NBA) title since moving to Los Angeles. The Lakers defeated the New York Knicks in five games to win the title, after going 69–13 during the regular-season, a record that stood for 24 seasons until the 1995–96 Chicago Bulls went ...
Classic. The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The Lakers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference. The Lakers play their home games at Crypto.com Arena, an arena they share with the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's ...
The Celtics–Lakers rivalry is a National Basketball Association (NBA) rivalry between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers. The Celtics and the Lakers are the two most storied franchises in the NBA, and the rivalry has been called the greatest in the league. [2] The teams have met a record 12 times in the NBA Finals, with their first ...
The 2010–11 Los Angeles Lakers season was the 63rd season of the franchise, 62nd in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and 51st in Los Angeles. As both the three-time defending Western Conference Champions and the two-time defending NBA Champions, the Lakers attempted their third "three-peat" in franchise history (1952–54) and (2000–02), but were swept by the eventual champion ...
The Lakers moved to Los Angeles for the 1959–60 NBA season, where they have been located ever since. The Minneapolis Lakers took its official name from Minnesota's nickname, Land of 10,000 Lakes. [2] To help the Lakers acquire local players, territorial picks were instituted from its inception in 1950 until 1965. Territorial picks were used ...
Lakers retired jerseys hanging inside the Staples Center, January 2013. 8 Kobe Bryant, G, 1996–2006. 13 Wilt Chamberlain, C, 1968–1973. 16 Pau Gasol, C, 2008–2014. 22 Elgin Baylor, F, 1958–71 (including team's last two seasons in Minneapolis) 24 Kobe Bryant, G, 2006–2016. 25 Gail Goodrich, G, 1965–68 and 1970–76.