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From Wikipedia: The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association (NBA) team based in Los Angeles, California. The Lakers play their home games at Staples Center, which they share with their fellow NBA rival, the Los Angeles Clippers, and their sister team, the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA. The Lakers are the current NBA Champions having beaten the Orlando Magic on June 14, 2009, in the final playoff game to win the series 4-1. The Lakers’ franchise was founded in 1946 in Detroit, Michigan before moving to Minneapolis, where the team got its official title from the state’s nickname, “Land of 10,000 Lakes.” The Lakers won five championships before relocating to Los Angeles in the 1960–61 NBA season. The Lakers lost all of their eight appearances in the NBA Finals in the 1960s, despite having help from Elgin Baylor and Jerry West. In 1972, the Lakers won their sixth title under coach Bill Sharman. The Lakers’ popularity soared in the 1980s when they won five additional champ
Lakers 99, Magic 86: NBA Champions!!! Obviously, no “Bad” after a game where the O’Brien punches a first class ticket to La La Land, but here’s a sample of the “Good” that stood out most in my eyes. * Balance: It would have taken a serious turn of events for someone other than Kobe Bryant to get Lamar odom’s reverse layup named Finals MVP (and had the unusual gone down, I would have pulled a “Zack Morris,” called “time out,” hopped a red eye to Orlando, driven to a still-frozen Amway Arena, put the gold in Kobe’s mitts, then called “time in,” because I can’t deal with an entire offseason hearing about more “proof that the NBA hates Kobe”). Nonetheless, some blog debate has recently waged over Kobe’s “Bill Russell merits.” Sources: http://lakersblog.latimes.com/lakersblog/2009/06/lakers-99-magic-86-nba-champions.
