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Los Angeles Lakers 17 Championships All Count

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.

 

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Clippers Better Than Lakers Debate Is Over

There is no comparison between the Lakers organization and the Clipper's.

Front office
Lakers signed LBJ as a free agent, traded away young under achieving talent for AD.
Clippers signed Kawhi as a free agent, give away the house to get Paul George.

Coach
Lakers - Frank Vogel builds team chemistry from the 1st game of year, best record in the West, reaches Conference Finals first year as Lakers coach.
Clippers - Doc (usually very good with players) craters to load management, never builds team chemistry, Clippers best team ever can't make it out of the 2nd round of playoffs.

History
Lakers - winningest team in the NBA (through decades), 17 championships (counting the one they will win this year) Conference Finals in every decade since 40's.
Clippers - greatest achievement 1st round playoff champions (there is no award for this).

Roster
Lakers - best player in the league (you know who), best defensive player (again you know), a bench full of role players who know how to step-up because they got in the habit of doing it all year (can you say best record in the west?).
Clippers "deep bench" (yeah right).

Accuracy of "hot takes" for the "Lakers as a dumpster fire" ended when the wrong Buss got ran out the door.