Los Angeles Lakers Tickets

No team In the NBA owns more all-time victories or a higher winning percentage than the Los Angeles Lakers Tickets are available.. Los Angeles Lakers have won 14 NBA championships in Minneapolis and Los Angeles and also captured league titles in the two years preceding the official NBA launch in 1949-50. Perhaps it's because Boston holds 16 NBA crowns-two more than the Los Angeles Lakers Tickets -that the Celtics are considered by many to be pro basketball's preeminent team. More likely, it's the fact the Los Angeles Lakers Tickets spent more than a decade unsuccessfully trying to unseat Boston in its heyday. If not for seven NBA Finals defeats at the hands of the Celtics in an 11-year span (1959-69), the Los Angeles Lakers clearly would be seen as the cream of the crop. For much of their history, they have been just that. The great George Mikan led six title teams (including one NBL and one BAA) in the late-1940s and 1950s. A 1960 move from Minneapolis to L.A. set the stage for Los Angeles Lakers tickets games to become Hollywood events. Wilt Chamberlain brought a title in 1972. Then Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar formed the heart of the "Showtime" Los Angeles Lakers teams that dominated the '80s with five championships. More recently, it was powerful center Shaquille O'Neal and high-flying Kobe Bryant who sparked L.A. to three straight titles beginning in 2000.

1947-48 The Minneapolis Lakers, starring George Mikan, win the National Basketball League title in their debut season. 1948-49 The Los Angeles Lakers Tickets claim the Basketball Association of America crown.
1949-50 The inaugural NBA title goes to-who else?-the Los Angeles Lakers dynasty, as do three of the next four. 1958-59 After holding the worst record the year before, Rookie of the Year Elgin Baylor leads the Los Angeles Lakers to the Finals. 1960-61 The Los Angeles Lakers Tickets move to L.A. 1961-62 Game 7 of the Finals sees the Celtics edge L.A. in overtime. The Los Angeles Lakers make the Finals seven times 1959-69, each time losing to Boston. 1968-69 Wilt Chamberlain arrives via a trade. Still, Bill Russell and the Celtics get their usual win in the Finals. 1969-70 This time, it's Willis Reed and New York who break L.A. hearts, although Jerry West earns the nickname "Mr. Clutch" for his 60-foot Finals heave. 1971-72 The Los Angeles Lakers Tickets win 33 straight games and finally break through with a title. 1975-76 Two years after Chamberlain's retirement, the Los Angeles Lakers trade for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. 1979-80 Rookie Magic Johnson kicks off the "Showtime" era with the first of two titles in three years.

1984-85 For the first time in nine Finals meetings, L.A. tops Boston for a championship. 1987-88 The Los Angeles Lakers make good on coach Pat Riley's promise of a second straight title-their fifth of the 1980s. 1991 Magic announces he has tested positive for the HIV virus. 1999-O0 Phil Jackson is hired as coach and molds a team, starring Shaquille and Kobe Bryant, into a champion. It's the first of three straight L.A. titles. 2003-04 The Los Angeles Lakers put four potential Hall of Famers on the floor in O'Neal, Bryant, Karl Malone and Gary Payton, yet fall to Detroit in the Finals.