The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles‚ California. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Lakers play their home games at Staples Center‚ which they share with their local NBA rival‚ the Los Angeles Clippers‚ the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL‚ and the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA.[1] The Lakers are one of the most successful teams in the history of the NBA‚ and have won 16 championships
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Michael Ybarra MGMT 365 5/10/12 Rise of the Los Angeles Lakers For over fifty years now the City of Angels‚ Los Angeles‚ has been home to one of the most historical and successful franchises in the National Basketball Association (NBA). With so many accomplishments encompassed in its sixty-plus year journey‚ the story of the Los Angeles Lakers is indeed a colorful one. Sporting the infamous purple and gold‚ the Los Angeles Lakers have become the second most decorated team in the NBA with a total
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The (0-4) Los Angeles Lakers are Kings County‚ in the borough of Brooklyn‚ the most populous of the five boroughs and the entire state of New York‚ to battle the (0-5) Brooklyn Nets at the Barclays Center. The Lakers are on their first extended road trip of the season‚ where they will play 16 of their next 20 games. Usually team tend to come together and form a solid bond on the road‚ hopefully that will be the case for the 2015-16 Los Angeles Lakers. Instead of spending time seeing some of the
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Los Angeles Lakers is a National Basketball Association (NBA) team based in Los Angeles‚ California. It is not only the successful NBA basketball team but also one of the earliest team joined NBA league. The Lakers is the reigning NBA champions after defeating the Boston Celtics in the 2010 NBA Finals 4 – 3. The Finals victory gave the franchise their 16th championship‚ placing them second in NBA history behind the Celtics’ 17. The Lakers also hold the record for NBA’s longest winning streak (33)
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They all describe one of the most highly-marketed and globalized franchises in sports history‚ the Los Angeles Lakers. The glamorous team with sixteen championships to its name has had its head flushed down the toilet for the majority of this decade; ironically enough‚ this team was the one that looked most promising at the decade’s start‚ as those Lakers were coming off back to back titles. These Lakers have one sole player remaining from that last championship roster and he is riding the deepest depths
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ARLT 100g Professor Freeman 4-1-07 Los Angeles in a Day I just left the ZBT fraternity house on a traditional‚ sunny‚ early fall Saturday morning in Los Angeles and cruised down the 5 freeway on towards Disneyland. Driving along with a few pledge bros in the Toyota 4Runner‚ we began our pledge class scavenger hunt for the day with Disneyland being the first destination. On our way‚ we did not encounter the typical‚ drive you insane‚ never ending‚ Los Angeles traffic constantly on the 5 freeway
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grainy concrete floors like seeds in the springtime‚ Los Angeles and its rich history has been attracting many people all over world. Merging from the San fernando valley through Downtown and back to long beach‚ marked with graffiti marks of local gangs and smelling of old factories‚ LA wouldn’t be LA without the LA river. ‚ For most tourists‚ visiting the LA river isn’t at the top of their agenda‚ but to many locals like myself‚ the Los Angeles river is not only the set of classic films like Grease
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about the U.S. city. For the county‚ see Los Angeles County‚ California. For other uses‚ see Los Angeles (disambiguation). Page semi-protected Los Angeles City City of Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles‚ Venice‚ Griffith Observatory‚ Hollywood Sign Flag Seal Nickname(s): "L.A."‚ "City of Angels"‚[1] "Angeltown"‚[2] "Lalaland"‚ "Tinseltown"[3] Location in Los Angeles County in the state of California Los Angeles is located in United States Los Angeles Location in the United States Coordinates:
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Crime-Based Economic and City Development Los Angeles is one of the biggest and most populated metropolises around the world. It was founded by governor Filipe de Neve‚ a Spanish governor of Las California‚ in September 4‚ 1781. Los Angeles started as a small city with population of 11‚500 people and continued steadily growing. At the beginning 20th century‚ the discovery of oil brought a lot of attention‚ and it shaped the economy‚ politics and social growth of the city. As population grows
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E Ghetto Star is a neighborhood “celebrity” known for actions such as gangbanging and dealing drugs (Shakur‚ Sanyika). For the past four decades gangs have populated the streets of Los Angeles; growing from 18 to 60 from 1972 to 1978‚ and from 155 to 270 gangs from 1982 to 1996. The bloods and crips in Los Angeles are predominately African Americans; with the exceptions of about four gangs which reside in Long Beach‚ Carson‚ Compton‚ and Inglewood and they consist of Samoan and members from Tongan
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