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Based in Los Angeles California, the Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association (NBA) team. The Los Angeles Lakers play their home games at the Staples Center , a venue they also share with the Los Angeles Clippers, the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA, the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League, the Los Angeles Avengers of the Arena Football League.

In 1960, the Lakers moved to Los Angeles , where the team would feature Hall of Famers Jerry West, Gail Goodrich, Elgin Baylor, and Wilt Chamberlain. But despite the immense talent on the team, they were repeatedly thwarted by the Boston Celtics. The Los Angeles Lakers lost the championship to the Boston Celtics six times in eight years. Finally, in 1972, the Lakers had a record 33-game win streak under Coach of the Year Bill Sharman, and they were finally able to secure their first championship in Los Angeles . After that though, they found it difficult to win another championship, even with the addition of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. It wasn't until the arrival of Earvin "Magic" Johnson in 1979, that the Lakers defeated the Philadelphia 76ers in the 1980 championship series. Under the tutelage of coach Pat Riley, a former Laker player himself, the Lakers went on to dominate the 1980s, appearing in the finals an astounding eight times in ten years and being crowned champions five times, including consecutive championships in 1987 and 1988. They were the first team to do so since the Boston Celtics in 1969.

Despite a finals appearance in 1991, the early 1990's were quiet until, during the 1996 offseason, the Lakers signed Shaquille O'Neal and rookie Kobe Bryant. With the hiring of Phil Jackson as head coach in 1999, the team quickly returned to championship form. Led by O'Neal, Bryant, and a talented team behind them, the Lakers went on to win three consecutive NBA Finals from 2000-02. Most recently, however, the Lakers have endured a series of off court problems, mainly due to problems between Bryant, O'Neal, and Jackson. In 2004, Shaquille O'Neal was traded to the Miami Heat and Coach Jackson temporarily retired. With a lackluster 2004-05 season, Jackson returned for the following season, and the Kobe Bryant-led team returned to the postseason, but lost to the Phoenix Suns in the first round in both the 2005-06 and 2006-07 seasons. The 2006-07 season saw the Lakers finishing 42-40 in Jackson 's worst record of his entire coaching career.

The 2007–08 season started rough but the Lakers saw the emergence of their young center Andrew Bynum. Bynum is a great complement to Kobe Bryant's perimeter threat. But in January 2008 Bynum suffered a season ending injury and the Lakers acted quickly by trading Kwame Brown, Javaris Crittenton, Aaron McKie, the draft rights to Marc Gasol, and two first round draft picks to the Memphis Grizzlies for Pau Gasol and a second round draft choice in 2010. After the trade, they went on to clinch the first seed in the Western Conference with a record of 57–25 record. They beat the Denver Nuggets in four games, the Utah Jazz in six games, and the defending champion San Antonio Spurs in five games. The Lakers entered the NBA Finals facing their biggest rival, the Boston Celtics, whom they had not met in the Finals since 1987. The Lakers eventually lost in six games.

The Lakers are also known for their star following as it is not uncommon to see numerous A-List stars courtside. Along with their Hollywood following the Lakers are distinguished in the NBA for having, at the end of the 2005–06 season, the most wins (2,806), the highest winning percentage (61.5%), the most finals appearances (28) of any other NBA franchise. They are only second behind the Boston Celtics for the most championships, 14 to the Celtics' 16. The Lakers are regarded as one of the NBA's most successful franchises and they hold the record for the longest consecutive win streak in U.S. professional team sports – 33 games. The Los Angeles Lakers have only missed the NBA playoffs 5 times and financially, they are the second most valuable basketball franchise in the United States , valued at an astounding $568 million, surpassed only by the New York Knicks.

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• Lakers' Lamar Odom practices mainly with second unit
  Lakers Coach Phil Jackson says the veteran forward 'would really helps us' as a sixth man. It was only one practice, with a slew of them still remaining before the regular season, but Lamar Odom was not on the starting unit for most of Saturday's session.



• Key questions remain unanswered for Lakers
  lakers tickets The Lakers are 0-2 in exhibitions after a 107-80 loss Thursday to the Clippers, and they're still figuring out a few details. By the time practice finally ended and the Lakers trudged off the court Friday, they were fewer in number than when the session began, and those who remained were more than slightly fatigued.



• Magic Johnson calls talk show hosts' accusation 'stupid'
  los angeles lakers They accused him of pretending to have HIV, but he says he doesn't want them fired. Expressions of outrage and regret were issued Friday after a pair of Minneapolis talk-show hosts said that Lakers Hall of Famer Magic Johnson "faked AIDS."



• Pau Gasol-Andrew Bynum pairing needs work for Lakers
  Lakers Lakers are routed by Clippers in exhibition game in Fresno. So this is why there's an exhibition season.



• Lakers' Lamar Odom doesn't get points for performance
  lakers tickets Phil Jackson says that the veteran 'looks like he's either curling or doing some other kind of sport. He's not playing basketball.' The Lamar Odom experiment trudges along, slowly and shakily.