Los Angeles Lakers Are Most Winning Franchise In NBA History
Some sports talk show hosts question whether the Los Angeles Lakers can count the championships won before the team's move to LA. The short answer is "yes". The Cleveland Lakers and Los Angeles Lakers are the same organization. All championships won by the Cleveland Lakers (the city the team played in before moving to Los Angeles) and Los Angeles Lakers count towards the Lakers total number of NBA Championships.
The NBA Hall of Fame has a member in it named George Mikan who played center for the Lakers and won championships for them while the Lakers played in Cleveland. Kareem Abdul Jabbar is a NBA Hall Of Fame center who won championships for the Lakers while the team played in Los Angeles. Both players are recognized as playing for the same basketball team, the Lakers. The Lakers are seventeen time world champions.
Lakers Didn't Win By Luck In The NBA Bubble
First of all for those who picked the Clippers or Bucks over the Lakers for the 2019-2020 NBA Championship, your picks didn't make it to a point in the playoffs to even play the Lakers. While the Lakers beat each of the teams that knocked your picks out of the playoffs.
It was said that the Lakers would have too hard of a time beating the Trailblazers and then Houston to make it to the Western Conference Finals. The Lakers dispatched each team Western Conference Playoffs team they faced in five games.
The Lakers roster was perfectly built for any playoff team they would face inside or outside the bubble. They had height, speed, experience, toughness, and most of all talent. Their talent started with two of the top 5 players in the NBA, and a bench made up of enough players with talent to step up and fill whatever role was needed depending on the opponent.