L.A. Lakers Basketball Games

The Los Angeles Lakers are a professional basketball team, playing in the National Basketball Association. They have been NBA Champions Sixteen times NBA (Only the Boston Celtics have more with seventeen wins). The team was founded in 1946 and is based in Los Angeles, California under the direction of Head Coach, Phil Jackson. The star of the team is, of course, Kobe Bryant.

The team was founded in Detroit under the name of the Detroit Gems. In a year the team moved to Minneapolis and then changed its name to "Minneapolis Lakers.” In 1960 the team moved to Los Angeles and since that time they have been the Los Angeles Lakers.

Home games with the Los Angeles Lakers are held in the Staples Center, which is a multifunctional sport complex in Los Angeles. It opened in 1999 and is located near the Los Angeles Convention Center. This place is also the home arena for teams such as the Los Angeles Kings (NHL), Los Angeles Clippers (NBA), Los Angeles Sparks (WNBA), and the Los Angeles Avengers (AFL).

Reuters reports that, “The Indiana Pacers held off the two-time defending champion Los Angeles Lakers for a 95-92 upset victory on Sunday November 28, in their first triumph at the Staples Center.

Kobe Bryant brought to a team a season-high 41 points, but he missed two potential game-tying three-point endeavors in the final ten seconds as the Pacers (8-7) resisted a late comeback effort after they led by fifteen in the second half.

Roy Hibbert scored 24 points, 12 rebounds and 6 assists to lead Indiana which protected the Lakers on the road for the first time since 1999 - a streak of 11 - which was a season prior to the team's move to the Staples Center.

Bryant made just 14 of 33 shots as Los Angeles lacked abusive chemistry, however, they managed to pull within 1 after 2 Pau Gasol free throws with 34 seconds left.

‘If we had won this game it's fool's gold, because we didn't deserve to win,’ said Lakers forward Lamar Odom, who finished with 15 points and 11 rebounds.

This team plays like a single person, so efficient and confident with total understanding: ‘My team mates are showing confidence in me and my post work and I'm having confidence in them,’ stated Hibbert.”

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