Vintage NBA Los Angeles Lakers Clothing
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Founded in 1947, for the first 13 years the Lakers were based in Minneapolis before moving to their current home of Los Angeles in 1960. more...
Arguably the NBA’s most glamorous franchise, the purple and gold are most famous for their ‘Showtime’ era of the ’80s, where the team played an entertaining up-tempo, run-and-gun style of play through Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Worthy and Byron Scott winning 5 NBA championships in a 9 year span.
The late ’90s and early 2000s saw a young Kobe Bryant and a dominant Shaquille O’Neal take the NBA by storm, becoming only the 5th team in league history to win 3 in a row. In 2009/2010, a more seasoned Kobe with Pau Gasol, Lamar Odom, and Ron Artest won number 4 and 5 for the decade bringing the total to 16, the 2nd most behind fierce rivals the Boston Celtics.
Struggling to find an identity following the retirement of Kobe, the Lakers now have LeBron James and Anthony Davis co-steering the ship, along with an exciting supporting cast, and may be set to roll back the years to compete at the very top of NBA once more. ...less