The Los Angeles Lakers are a professional basketball team, based in Los Angeles, California, which plays in the National Basketball Association. The Lakers play their home games at Staples Center, which they share with cross-town rivals, the Los Angeles Clippers, their sister team the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA, the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League, the Los Angeles Avengers of the Arena Football League and the NBA Development League's Los Angeles D-Fenders. The Laker franchise was founded in Detroit before moving to Minneapolis where they won 5 league championships in the various leagues before locating to Los Angeles. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Lakers popularity soared, with superstar players Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and coach Pat Riley winning five titles in the that span, with 3 championship series against their arch-rivals, the Boston Celtics. Full Article on Wikipedia