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With ABC's Chris Schenkel and Jack Twyman leading speculation about what the Knicks could do to guard Chamberlain, Reed emerged from the locker room and joined his team on the floor, shocking thousands and surprising the Lakers.
The Lakers finished the season with a record 69 wins, which would stand until the 1995–96 season when the Chicago Bulls won 72 regular season games.
Led by Chamberlain and Jerry West, the Lakers won their first title in Los Angeles; their last title was in 1954 as the Minneapolis Lakers.
Last Playoff Meeting: 1955 Western Division Semifinals (Lakers won 2-1; Lakers were in Minneapolis, Kings were in Rochester, New York as the Royals)
The Lakers were invited to a reception at the White House with President Ronald Reagan, where Kareem Abdul-Jabbar presented the President with a jersey.
With the Lakers winning their fourth NBA championship in seven years four months before, the Dodgers winning the World Series made Los Angeles the first city to have both NBA and World Series champions in the same year.
Askov is also the hometown of Minneapolis Lakers star and NBA Hall of Famer Vern Mikkelsen and was the residence of former Minnesota governor Hjalmar Petersen.
DJ Felli Fel used the beat to make "Lakers Anthem 2010" to support the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2010 NBA Finals.
In 1968, the Los Angeles Lakers followed the recommendation of former West Virginia great Rod Hundley and hired him as a full-time scout.
The high school students are trained through the Heroes and Cool Kids' curriculum and by former professional athletes, such as former NFL player, Keith Elias, former LA Lakers player, John Celestand, and former NJ Nets player, Tim Bassett.
Queen Of Angels (1999–2004) was his official web site, and Lakers Talk (2002–2006) was a fansite for the Los Angeles Lakers.
While he admitted he was a police witness to a fight that broke out between two customers at a Waffle House in Oklahoma City during a visit with the Lakers after a regular season game in 2009, Fisher denied having been a participant in the latest allegation, which he labeled as false.
His longest tenures were with the Lakers and the Hornets (in Charlotte and New Orleans); he would also play with the Seattle SuperSonics and briefly for the New Jersey Nets, spending most of the final two seasons of his career as a member of the Detroit Pistons, being on roster in the 2004 NBA Championship team.
Baylor, a United States Army Reservist, was called to active duty during the 1961-62 season, and being stationed in Washington state, he could play for the Lakers only when on a weekend pass.
Pau Gasol, a Spanish professional basketball player who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers
The Lakers season ended with the first league loss of the season coming in the National Championship to Westminster University resulting in a 20-1 season, scoring over 300 goals.
Tex Winter (born 1922), member of Basketball Hall of Fame, 9 NBA Champion Rings in his tenure as an NBA assistant coach with the Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers, basketball innovater who taught the Triangle Offense to basketball legend Michael Jordan
Hollywood celebrities are often present at Lakers games, while the most recognizable Clipper fan at times is superfan Clipper Darrell.
In addition to his duties with the Lakers, Tanter is also the program director for public jazz radio station KKJZ.
The white jerseys were designed by Lakers owner Jerry Buss' daughter Jeanie Buss, in tribute to Chick Hearn, who was regarded as the voice of the team for forty years until his death in August 2002.
Former actress, model, and cheerleader Bonnie-Jill Laflin was the D-Fenders' assistant general manager (2006-2009) and a scout for the Lakers.
In exchange, the Rockets would have received Pau Gasol, and the Lakers would have received star point guard Chris Paul.
Mike D'Antoni, current head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers and formerly of the Denver Nuggets, Phoenix Suns (NBA Coach of the Year for 2004-05) and New York Knicks, played college basketball at Marshall.
In 2001 the institution merged with Founders National Bank of Los Angeles, bringing the largest banking market in the country along with star power in the form of Founders’ majority owners-former Los Angeles Lakers superstar, NBA Hall of Famer and successful businessman Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Grammy Award-winning songstress Janet Jackson, and former Motown Records President Jheryl Busby.
The program has also featured exclusive interviews with newsmakers such as: President George W. Bush, Senator John McCain, Pete Rose, Phil Jackson (after leaving the Lakers the first time) and the Army Rangers of Pat Tillman's platoon about what really happened.
Joe Crispin (born 1979, Class of 1997), Gloucester County's all-time leading scorer for boys' high school basketball (2,651 career points) who played in the NBA for the Lakers and Suns.
The schools sports teams are named the "Lakers", a reference to the proximity of Pymatuning Reservoir.
On February 7, 2009, Brown was traded, along with Adam Morrison, to the Los Angeles Lakers for Vladimir Radmanović.