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This color issue was corrected later in the decade. Before the 1986–87 season, changes were made to the uniforms when the number font changed and decreased in size. The "Lakers" script also realigned into a straight arrangement. The Lakers revived the "Showtime" gold uniforms as throwbacks during the 2007–08 and 2016–17 seasons.
The Lakers advanced to the NBA Finals by sweeping the Nuggets, defeating the Warriors in five games, and sweeping the SuperSonics in the Western Conference Finals. [129] The Lakers defeated Boston in the first two games of the Finals, and the teams split the next four games, giving Los Angeles their second championship in three seasons. [127]
On May 3, 2024, the Lakers fired their entire coaching staff, which includes head coach Darvin Ham, after serving for two seasons, and assistant coach Phil Handy, who had been with the team since their 2020 championship season. [4] The Los Angeles Lakers drew an average home attendance of 18,903 in 42 home games in the 2023-24 NBA season. [5]
The current logo for the Los Angeles Lakers National Basketball Association (NBA) team. Date: 1964: Source:
The Lakers won the 1972 NBA Finals at the Forum in Game 5, while the New York Knicks' second and most recent championship was also clinched in a Game 5 at the same venue the following season. Cream played two shows during the band's farewell tour, on October 18–19, 1968, with Deep Purple as the opening act.
On July 6, 2023, Hachimura re-signed with the Los Angeles Lakers. [52] On December 9, 2023, Hachimura and the Lakers won the inaugural season of the NBA In-Season Tournament (also known as the NBA Cup). [53] On February 14, 2024, Hachimura set a new career high of 36 points in a 138–122 victory over the Utah Jazz. [54]
The 54-win Lakers faced the 40–42 Houston Rockets in the first round of playoffs, [64] [65] where Houston upset the Lakers 2–1 after Johnson airballed a last-second shot in Game 3. [ 66 ] In 1981, after the 1980–81 season, Johnson signed a 25-year, $25 million contract with the Lakers (equivalent to $84,000,000 in 2023), which was the ...
1080p (1920 × 1080 progressively displayed pixels; also known as Full HD or FHD, and BT.709) is a set of HDTV high-definition video modes characterized by 1,920 pixels displayed across the screen horizontally and 1,080 pixels down the screen vertically; [1] the p stands for progressive scan, i.e. non-interlaced.