The Los Angeles Lakers is an NBA basketball team located in Los Angeles, California, USA. It belongs to the Western Pacific Division and its home stadium is Staples Center. With a long and glorious history, its predecessor is the Minneapolis Lakers (Minneapolis Lakers), won 5 championships during the Minneapolis era, in 1959 the team moved to Los Angeles, won 11 NBA championships, A total of 16 championships have been won so far, second only to the 17 times the Boston Celtics.

NBL era and early NBA (1946—1979)

Detroit Gems is a National Basketball League (NBL) basketball team founded in 1946 and disbanded in 1947 the following year. In the year of the team’s dissolution, Ben Berger and Morris Chalfen bought the management rights of the team from the owner for $15,000 and moved the team’s home stadium to Minneapolis, Minnesota. “Lake State”, so the team was named Minneapolis Lakers (Minneapolis Lakers), belonging to the National Basketball League (NBL), and this team is the predecessor of the Los Angeles Lakers (LAL).

Because the Gems were the worst team in the previous season, the inherited Lakers won the first pick. The team successfully selected excellent center George Mikan (George Mikan), laying the foundation for the first Lakers dynasty in the 1950s. John Kudar served as the team’s first head coach. Under the leadership of George Mikan, John Kudar and a former University of Minnesota basketball player, the Lakers successfully won the 1948 NBL in their first season. champion.

In 1948, the Lakers moved from the National Basketball League to the Basketball Association of America (BAA). Under the leadership of George Mikan, the Lakers won five league championships in six years, including the 1949 BAA championship and four NBA championships. champion. In 1949, the American Basketball Association (BAA) and the National Basketball League (NBL) merged into the current National Basketball Association (NBA). In the mid-to-late 1950s after George Mikan retired, the team fell into a low ebb, the record continued to decline, and the business became increasingly bleak. George Mikan is now known as the first superstar in NBA history.

In 1960, the team moved to Los Angeles. Although it moved out of the state of Ten Thousand Lakes, it still retained the name of the Lakers. The team name was changed to the current Los Angeles Lakers (Los Angeles Lakers).

Union: Western Union

Division: Pacific Division

Founded: 1947

History: Minneapolis Lakers 1947-1960

Los Angeles Lakers 1960-Now

Arena: Staples Center

City: Los Angeles, California

Team color: gold, purple, black　 　

Sponsor: wish.com

Chairman: Jeanie Buss

Head Coach: Frank Paul Vogel

Owner: Jerry Buss Family Trust

Overall champion: 16 times

(1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1972, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2009, 2010)

League Championship: 31 times

(1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010)

Division champion 34 times

NBL period: (1948)

NBA period: (1950, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2020)