Free Los Angeles Lakers Screensaver

Los Angeles Lakers Free Screensaver

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 the Los Angeles Clippers, their sister team the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA, the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League, the Los Angeles Avengers of the Arena Football League and the NBA Development League s Los Angeles D-Fenders. 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) of any NBA franchise, and the second most championships (14, behind the Boston Celtics 16). They are generally regarded as one of the NBA s most successful franchises. They hold the record for the longest consecutive win streak (33) in U.S. professional team sports. The Laker franchise was founded in Detroit before moving to Minneapolis, where the team got its official title from the state s nickname (Land of 10,000 Lakes), and won 5 league championships within the various leagues before locating to Los Angeles. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Lakers popularity soared,which made them become one of the most successful franchises in the NBA 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.