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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 2010 championship marks the 16th NBA championship in Lakers franchise history. The Lakers would claim their first championship led by LeBron James and Anthony Davis in 2020 after defeating the Miami Heat, marking the 17th and tying the Celtics. The list is composed of players who played at least one BAA/NBA game for the Lakers franchise.
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 1967–68 NBA season was the Lakers' 20th season in the NBA and eighth season in Los Angeles. [1] This was the first season the Lakers uniforms featured what would become the signature gold and purple colors.
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The season began just 72 days after the completion of the 2020 finals, giving the Lakers and the Miami Heat the shortest off-season in league history. [5] In February 2021, the Lakers had the second best record in the West at 21–7, [6] two games behind the Utah Jazz, [7] when Anthony Davis suffered a strained calf that sidelined him for 30 ...
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty is an American sports drama television series created by Max Borenstein and Jim Hecht for HBO, based on the book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s by Jeff Pearlman.