Lakers Playoffs Tickets

The Los Angeles Lakers are, without a doubt, the most successful team in the history of the NBA (National Basketball Association). The team has secured a total of 32 NBA Finals appearances, some ten ahead of their nearest rivals, the Boston Celtics.

As the Minneapolis Lakers, the team won the last BAA Finals series and followed that up by winning the first NBA season, defeating the Syracuse Nationals 4-2 in 1950.

They then picked up three of the next four titles, two coming at the expense of the New York Knicks and once against the Syracuse Nationals.

Moving to California

The team moved to California in 1960 and became the Los Angeles Lakers, and though the team consistently made it to the playoffs, there was certainly something of a slump. The team visited the playoffs for 11 successive seasons without getting to the NBA Finals.

This relative drought ended in 1971-72 when the team, coached by Bill Sharman, defeated the Knicks to win the latest of their NBA Championships. They lost the following year to the Knicks in a five-game series.

Showtime

The late 70s and 80s became known as Showtime, and with the likes of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson the team, coached by first Jack McKinney, then Paul Westhead, followed by hugely successful legend Pat Riley, made it to eight NBA Finals in ten seasons.

This run included three successive finals against the Celtics, with Larry Bird aiding his team to victory in 1984.

The Showtime team won five championships before losing finals in 1989 and 1991 to the Detroit Pistons and the Chicago Bulls, respectively.

The team failed to hit those heights for much of the 90s, but the arrival of Shaquille O'Neal turned things around in a big way.

Shaq and Kobe

The team won three successive NBA Championships in 1999-2000, 2000-2001, and 2001-02.

In the first of those seasons, they racked up 67 regular season wins, and a player by the name of Kobe Bryant was just getting started.

Phil Jackson led the team to back-to-back titles in 2009, and 2010 with convincing NBA Finals wins over the Orlando Magic and the Boston Celtics.

It took another decade for the Staples Center team to win another title, this latest one coming in 2019-20, thanks to a superb season of performances from FMVP LeBron James.

Unrivaled Dominance

No team in the history of the league has visited more NBA playoffs than the Los Angeles Lakers. They made it to the NBA playoffs on 62 occasions up to 2022-23, and they have played a total of 761 NBA playoffs games, some way ahead of their nearest rivals, the Celtics.

The team has won 17 NBA Championships, 19 Western Conference titles, and 33 Division titles.