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The Los Angeles Lakers are an American expert ball group situated in Los Angeles. The Lakers contend in the Public Ball Relationship as an individual from the association's Western Meeting Pacific Division.

The Lakers contend in the Public B-ball Affiliation (NBA) as an individual from the association's Western Gathering Pacific Division. The Lakers play their home games at Crypto.com Field, a field imparted to the NBA's Los Angeles Trimmers, the Los Angeles Flashes of the Ladies' Public Ball Affiliation, and the Los Angeles Rulers of the Public Hockey League.

 At first an individual from the NBL, the Lakers came out on top for the 1948 NBL title prior to joining the opponent Ball Relationship of America, where they would win five of the following six titles, drove by star George Mikan. Subsequent to battling monetarily in the last part of the 1950s following Mikan's retirement, they migrated to Los Angeles before the 1960-61 season.

Driven by Lobby of Famers Elgin Baylor and Jerry West, Los Angeles made the NBA Finals multiple times during the 1960s, however lost each series to the Celtics, starting their long and celebrated contention. In 1968, the Lakers gained four-time NBA Most Significant Player (MVP) Shrivel Chamberlain, and brought home their 6th NBA championship — and first in Los Angeles — in 1972, drove by new lead trainer Bill Sharman. After the retirement of West and Chamberlain, the group exchanged for whiz Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who might win three MVP grants as a Laker. While the group couldn't progress to the Finals in the last part of the 1970s, two pivotal changes came in 1979 that would introduce another brilliant period for the establishment. To start with, Jerry Buss bought the Lakers, and as the group's proprietor, spearheaded a dream of b-ball games as diversion scenes as well as donning events. Second, the Lakers drafted Sorcery Johnson first in general in the 1979 NBA draft.

The mix of Johnson, a passing wonder point monitor, and a predominant focus in Abdul-Jabbar furnished the Lakers with two geniuses to secure their program. The advancement of lead trainer Pat Riley in 1981 and the expansion of forward James Commendable through the 1982 draft laid out the Lakers as a NBA force to be reckoned with all through the 1980s. The group was nicknamed the "Kickoff Lakers" because of its quick break, progress offense worked with by Johnson. The establishment brought home five titles in a nine-year range, including winning two out of three marquee Finals matchups against the Celtics. The Lakers were crushed by their Boston archrivals in the 1984 Finals, yet prevailed over the Celtics in 1985 and 1987.

After Riley left and Abdul-Jabbar, Johnson, and Commendable completely resigned, the Lakers battled in the mid 1990s. It was only after 1996 when the group exchanged with the Charlotte Hornets for the draft privileges to Kobe Bryant and marked star place Shaquille O'Neal that the Lakers got back to strength during the mid 2000s. The genius pair of Bryant and O'Neal, alongside Corridor of Notoriety mentor Phil Jackson, drove the Lakers to three back to back titles between 2000 to 2002, getting the establishment's second "three-peat." The dynamic however turbulent "Shaq-and-Kobe" time finished when the Lakers exchanged away O'Neal after the group lost to the Detroit Cylinders in the 2004 Finals. It was only after the Lakers exchanged for Pau Gasol that Bryant and Jackson got back to the NBA Finals, losing to the Celtics in 2008 however bringing home two additional titles in 2009 and 2010. The 2010 Finals denoted the most recent matchup of the Lakers and Celtics, with Los Angeles coming out on top for its sixteenth championship against its old opponent in a seven-game series.

Jackson resigned from training in 2011, and after a line of wild season finisher leaves, the Lakers got through their longest season finisher dry spell in establishment history. Gasol withdrew as a free specialist in 2014, and Bryant resigned in 2016 following twenty years as a Laker. After different modifying seasons with youthful, exceptionally appraised possibilities, the Lakers marked whiz LeBron James in 2018. In 2019, the group exchanged a few of those possibilities for star large man Anthony Davis.[16] The Lakers — drove by James, Davis, and lead trainer Candid Vogel — brought home the group's seventeenth title in 2020, tying the Celtics for the most titles in NBA history.

The Lakers hold the record for NBA's longest series of wins, 33 straight games, set during the 1971-72 season.[18] 26 Lobby of Famers have played for Los Angeles, while four have trained the group. Four players — Abdul-Jabbar, Johnson, O'Neal, and Bryant — have won a joined eight NBA MVP grants