Los Angeles Lakers
National Basketball Association team in Los Angeles, California
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Key Takeaways
- The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles.
- The Lakers play their home games at Crypto.
- The Lakers are one of the most successful teams in the history of the NBA with 17 championships, second to the Boston Celtics.
- After one season, a new owner moved the team to Minneapolis, and renamed it the Minneapolis Lakers .
- After the merger of the NBL and the BAA into the NBA in 1949, the Lakers won four of the next five NBA championships.
The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The Lakers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference. The Lakers play their home games at Crypto.com Arena, an arena they share with 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 are one of the most successful teams in the history of the NBA with 17 championships, second to the Boston Celtics.
The franchise began in 1946 as the Detroit Gems of the National Basketball League (NBL). After one season, a new owner moved the team to Minneapolis, and renamed it the Minneapolis Lakers. The Lakers won the 1948 NBL championship before joining the rival Basketball Association of America, where they won the 1949 BAA championship. After the merger of the NBL and the BAA into the NBA in 1949, the Lakers won four of the next five NBA championships. After struggling financially in the late 1950s, they moved to Los Angeles before the 1960–61 season.
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