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The 1999–2000 NBA season was the Lakers' 52nd season in the National Basketball Association, and 40th season in Los Angeles. [1] It was also the Lakers first season playing in their new arena, the Staples Center, becoming co-tenants with their crosstown rival, the Los Angeles Clippers.
Additionally, both teams in the Finals featured newly built arenas, as the Lakers' Crypto.com Arena and the Pacers' Gainbridge Fieldhouse opened at the beginning of the 1999–2000 NBA season. This was the second time a Finals game was played on a Monday night since the NBA switched to the Wednesday-Friday-Sunday rotation in 1991.
Crypto.com Arena, previously the Staples Center, has been home to the Lakers since the 1999–2000 NBA season. The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles that competes in the National Basketball Association (NBA), which was formerly called the Basketball Association of America (BAA). Since 1999, the ...
The 2000 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1999–2000 season. The tournament concluded with the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers defeating the Eastern Conference champion Indiana Pacers four games to two. Shaquille O'Neal was named NBA Finals MVP.
The 1999–2000 NBA season was the 54th season of the National Basketball Association. The season began on November 2, 1999, and ended with the Los Angeles Lakers winning the NBA championship, beating the Indiana Pacers 4 games to 2 in the 2000 NBA Finals .
The 1949–50 Minneapolis Lakers, who won the NBA Finals, are not counted in the Eastern versus Western champions record above as they played in the Central Division. The first parentheses in the Western champions and Eastern champions columns indicate the teams' playoff seed.
The Los Angeles Lakers won a new kind of trophy on Saturday at the NBA's inaugural in-season tournament.. Led by vintage performances from LeBron James and Anthony Davis, the Lakers overwhelmed ...
The Heat continued to host regular season games there for part of the 1999–2000 season before moving to the American Airlines Arena in January 2000. Game 4 of the Spurs–Lakers series was the last regulation NBA game ever played in the Great Western Forum. The Lakers played a handful of preseason games leading up to the 1999–2000 season ...