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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 ...
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 ...
During the 2021-22 season, the Lakers finished the season with a 33–49 record, one game behind the last spot for the NBA play-in tournament. Following the season, head coach Frank Vogel was fired on April 11, 2022. [157] During the 2022-23 season. The Lakers started the season 0-5, the last winless team in the NBA.
The Lakers hold several NBA records as a team including most consecutive games won overall (33) and most consecutive road games won (16), both of which came during the 1971–72 season, [353] highest field-goal percentage for a season at 54.5% (1984–85), [354] and highest road winning percentage at 0.816 (1971–72). [66]
Magic Johnson at the Lakers championship rally, June 1980. The 1979-80 NBA season was the Lakers' 32nd season in the NBA and the 20th season in Los Angeles. It featured a 20-year old rookie Magic Johnson leading the Lakers to their seventh NBA Championship (second in Los Angeles), defeating the Philadelphia 76ers led by Julius Erving in six games in the NBA Finals, which was the first NBA ...
To honor the 75th season of the NBA, LeBron Wire compiled an all-time roster for the Los Angeles Lakers. See who made the cut.
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 ...
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.