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The Los Angeles Lakers are a professional basketball team, based in Los Angeles, California, who play in the National Basketball Association. They play their games at the Staples Center, which they share with cross-town rivals, the Los Angeles Clippers, their sister team the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA and the NBA Development League's Los Angeles D-Fenders.
The club was founded in Detroit before moving to Minneapolis where they won 5 league championships in the various leagues before locating to Los Angeles. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Lakers popularity soared, with superstar players Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and coach Pat Riley winning five titles in the that span, with 3 championship series against their arch-rivals, the Boston Celtics.
In the 2000s, the trio of coach Phil Jackson, Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal brought three straight championships before falling apart, culminating in O'Neal being traded to the Miami Heat. Only Bryant and Jackson remain from the champion years.
The Lakers are notable for having (at the end of the 2005–06 season) the most wins (2,806), the highest winning percentage (61.5%), the most finals appearances (28), and the second most championships (14) of any franchise behind their chief rivals the Boston Celtics.[1] They also hold the record for the longest consecutive win streak (33) in U.S. professional team sports.[2] The franchise has only missed the playoffs 5 times.[3]

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