The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The team plays in the National Basketball Association. The Lakers have won 17 NBA championships, tied with the Boston Celtics for the most in NBA history. Twenty-six Hall of Famers have played for Los Angeles, while four have coached the team.
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The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The team plays in the National Basketball Association. The Lakers have won 17 NBA championships, tied with the Boston Celtics for the most in NBA history. Twenty-six Hall of Famers have played for Los Angeles, while four have coached the team. The franchise began in 1947 when Ben Berger and Morris Chalfen of Minnesota purchased the recently disbanded Detroit Gems of the Nationalasketball League. The new team began playing in Minneapolis, Minnesota calling themselves the Minneapolis Lakers. In their first season, they led the NBL with a 43–17 winning record. In 1948, the Lakers moved to the Basketball Association of America, where they would win five of the next six championships. After struggling financially in the late 1950s following George Mikan’s retirement, they relocated to Los Angeles before the 1960–61 season. In 1968, they acquired four-time NBA Most Valuable Player Wilt Chamberlain, and won their sixth NBA title—and first in LA in 1972, led by new head coach Bill Sharman. The additions of head coach Pat Riley in 1981, and James Worthy through the 1982 NBA Draft, established the Lakers as an NBA powerhouse in the 1980s. After Abdul-Jabbar, Johnson, and Worthy retired, the team struggled in the 1990s until it drafted Kobe Bryant and signed Shaquille O’Neal in 1996.
The superstar duo, along with Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson, led the Lakers to three consecutive championships between 2000 to 2002, securing the franchise’s second ‘three-peat’ The Lakers hold the record for NBA’s longest winning streak, 33 straight games, set during the 1971–72 season. After the team lost in the 2004 NBA Finals, the \”Shaq-and-Kobe\” era ended when the Lakers traded away O’ Neal. In 2020, the Lakers—led by LeBron James, Anthony Davis, and coach Frank Vogel—secured their 17th championship, tying the Celtics for the most titles in NBA history with the Celtics for the most consecutive championships tied with the LeBron James, Anthony Davis, and Kobe Bryant and Anthony Davis ties in the NBA Finals on their record of 17 champion titles between 2011 and 2012. The Lakers are one of the most successful teams in the history of the NBA, and have won the NBA MVP Award for a total of eight awards. Four Lakers—Abdul-jabbar,. Johnson, O’ Shaq, and Bryant—have won theNBA MVP Award. The team has won two more titles in 2009 and 2010, winning two more championship tournament tournaments with Pau Gasol and the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women’s National Basketball League.
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