Los Angeles Lakers

The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team in the National Basketball Association (NBA). They play their home games in the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California, which they share with the Los Angeles Clippers, their sister team the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), and the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Lakers were originally known as Minneapolis Lakers. The Lakers are one of the most successful teams in the history of the NBA, and have won 17 NBA championships second behind the Boston Celtics for the most in NBA history. More recently, the Lakers were the champions of the NBA's inaugural In-Season Tournament in 2023.

Many famous players played on the Los Angeles Lakers' team, including:
Kobe Bryant
Magic Johnson
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Shaquille O'Neal
Wilt Chamberlain
George Mikan
Jerry West
Elgin Baylor
Luka Dončić
Bob McAdoo
Gail Goodrich
Norm Nixon
James Worthy
Pau Gasol
Jamaal Wilkes
Anthony Davis
Michael Cooper
Byron Scott
Glen Rice
A.C. Green
Ron Harper
Nick Van Exel
Eddie Jones
Dennis Rodman
Dwight Howard
Rajon Rondo
Steve Nash
Kyle Kuzma
Alex Caruso
Brandon Ingram
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
Russell Westbrook
LeBron James
Carmelo Anthony
Derek Fisher
Robert Horry
Karl Malone
Rick Fox
Lamar Odom
Gary Payton
Andrew Bynum
Luke Walton
Trevor Ariza
Metta Sandiford-Artest
Kent Bazemore
Wayne Ellington
D'Angelo Russell

The Lakers have won 17 NBA championships, including 5 in Minneapolis (1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954) and 12 in Los Angeles (1972, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2009, 2010, 2020).

Six of the Lakers' rivals are the Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Clippers, Detroit Pistons, Phoenix Suns, Portland Trail Blazers, and the Sacramento Kings.

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Category:National Basketball Association teams
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Category:1946 establishments in the United States
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Category:1940s establishments in Minnesota
Category:20th-century establishments in Michigan