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As a result of the various trades, the Los Angeles Lakers had five first and second-round picks in 1979. In 1996, GM Jerry West orchestrated a draft day trade in which a High School Kobe Bryant was acquired by the Los Angeles Lakers for Vlade Divac. This same year, Jerry West had acquired a FA Shaquille O’Neal in a blockbuster signing.
At the Lakers' championship celebration in Los Angeles, coach Riley brashly declared that Los Angeles would repeat as NBA champions, [127] which no team had done since the 1968–69 Boston Celtics. Looking to make good on Riley's promise in the 1987–88 season , the Lakers took their seventh consecutive Pacific Division title with a 62–20 ...
The book, which normally sells for $45, is available for preorder. And if you go to the L.A. Times online store, you can purchase the book at a discounted rate of $33.75 for a limited time. The ...
The new Los Angeles Lakers, behind Baylor's 34.8 points per game and 19.8 rebounds per game, improved on the previous year's results before losing once more to the Hawks in the Western Conference Finals. The duo of Baylor and West proved to be lethal and they both finished among the NBA's top 10 scorers for the next four years.
Antoine Fuqua's Lakers documentary is admirably faithful, but could have more fun. You can see why 'Winning Time' took some liberties with its source material. 'Legacy: The True Story of the LA ...
In March 2014, Pearlman released Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s, a biography of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers. It became his fourth New York Times best seller. The book was adapted into the HBO docudrama series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, which was released in 2022. [10]
It’s a reality now, the Lakers and James’ agent executing a plan to get him to Los Angeles. In the pre-draft process, Rich Paul said that James wouldn’t be signing a two-way deal.
The Last Season: A Team in Search of Its Soul is a book by the former American basketball coach Phil Jackson, [1] [2] originally published by the Penguin Press in 2004. The book deals with the ups and downs of the Los Angeles Lakers' 2003-04 season and offers Jackson's insight into the team's season that ended in a breakup but not a championship, despite boasting future Hall of Famers ...