1 Superstars are passed down from generation to generation
Star players want to play in the big cities, but not every big city can get a real star player.
New York is the largest city in the United States, and Madison Square Garden is known as "the world's most famous arena", but since the departure of "Gorilla" Ewing, New York has never gotten a real first-line star.
Los Angeles is a different story. As the entertainment capital and the second largest city in the United States today, not only has it consistently been home to some of the world's most famous movie stars and directors, but it's also had an almost unbroken succession of basketball superstars. Lay out a dozen of the greatest superstars in NBA history, and you'll find that about half of them bear the Lakers' imprint. And because of that, the Lakers have never been one of the most watched teams by NBA fans -- whether those fans love or hate the Lakers.
From the early days of the Minneapolis Lakers, the league's first superstar, George McKeon, was the Lakers' starting center. In those first years of the NBA, Myken was not only synonymous with the entire Lakers team, but was the most famous sign in the entire league, if not the entire sport of basketball. At that time, McKeon enjoyed the same special treatment as the big-name players nowadays. While most Lakers players at the time made less than $7,000 a season, McCann made $35,000 a season.
After completing a three-peat in 1954, McCann retired, and the Lakers were propped up for four years by Slater Martin, LaFleet and Mickelson.The 1958-59 season saw the arrival of the second superstar in Lakers history, Elgin Baylor. Baylor brought the Lakers back to the Finals in his rookie season and became the most feared forward in the league over the next few years.In 1960-61, Baylor averaged 34.8 points per game, second only to superstar center Wilt Chamberlain in the league.Baylor only appeared in 48 regular-season games because he had to serve in the military and could only return to play on the weekends or with a temporary pass, but In those 48 games, Baylor's scoring average was as high as 38.3 points per game; in Game 5 of the 1962 Finals, Baylor set another Finals record of 61 points in a single game, which is still unbroken.
Baylor was still in his prime when the Lakers, who had moved to Los Angeles, got Jerry West. West's form was less stable early in his career, so he was generally subordinate to Baylor, but the duo teamed up and had constructed the most offensively potent combination in the league. By the 1965 Western Conference Finals, Baylor suffered a serious knee injury, and West scored over 40 points in each of the six games in that series, averaging 46.3 points per game, setting a record for the highest average score in a single series of NBA playoffs, and one that no one has yet broken. Then, as Baylor became more and more plagued by injuries, West slowly became the Lakers' boss and one of the top guards in the league.
Before Baylor became too old to play, the super center Chamberlain became a member of the Lakers again, West, Chamberlain, Baylor three superstars teamed up, so that the Lakers became the most starry-eyed team. 1971-72 season, although Baylor announced his retirement, but Chamberlain and West led the Lakers to a record 33 consecutive victories in a great record, and successfully won the championship, West finally rounded out the dream of the championship.
Chamberlain and West had just bid farewell to history in 1973 and 1974, when the Lakers traded for another epoch-making center, "Sky Hook" Jabbar, in 1975. Jabbar is still in the ascendant, "Magic" Johnson in 1979-80 season came out of nowhere, the Lakers ushered in the "Showtime (Showtime)" era.
"Magic" on the Lakers and the NBA league domination, has continued until the early 1990s."
The Lakers struggled for a few seasons after Magic announced his retirement due to HIV, but by 1996, they had pried O'Neal, the Magic's giant center, out of free agency and got high schooler Kobe in the draft to create a new superstar group.
Carefully count, since the Lakers built the team, their "superstar gap" a **** only about 10 years, and the longest time is no more than 5 years. This is a unique generation in the history of the NBA.
2 championships
If you can't win with stars, the Lakers aren't a powerhouse. The Lakers are successful because they not only attract superstars to their franchise, but they rely on those superstars to win games and championships all the time.
From the end of the 1940s to the beginning of this century, the Lakers in the NBA (and its predecessor BAA) a **** 28 times in the Finals, took 14 championships, the number of championships in the entire history of the league only two less than the Celtics; these 14 championships are mainly concentrated in the three eras, so that three times the era of the three naturally formed the three Lakers dynasty ---- a team built three generations of the dynasty to the So far, in the history of the NBA is only this, no other.
3 revival speed
In the NBA, the Lakers can compete with the "first giants", only the Celtics a team. And said the Lakers in the Celtics above, a very important reason is that the Lakers have never fallen to re-emerge from the time has always been very short, and the Celtics since the "Big Bird" Bird, McHale and others retired, has not been able to become a first-class team in the league.
The Lakers have a long history, but only five seasons without a playoff appearance is a bit of a mystery. Every superstar left the team, or every generation of dynasty disintegration, will not let the Lakers completely collapsed, long illness, this is the Lakers stronger than several other dynasty teams.
After McCann's return in 1954, the Lakers' record declined significantly, but they still managed to make the playoffs three years in a row, and won in the playoffs to advance, because they retained Slater Martin, LaFleet, Mikkelsen, and other "vital forces". 1957-58 season, the Lakers finally won only 19 games, fell out of the playoffs, but immediately after the draft, they got the The Lakers were able to draft Baylor, a basketball prodigy who had never been seen before.
In the mid-1970s, the Lakers missed the playoffs two years in a row because Chamberlain and West had retired. But soon, the Lakers and the Bucks completed a shocking deal, four for one to get the "sky hook" Jabbar. Although Jabbar is isolated, did not immediately let the Lakers return to the championship level, but in 1979, "Magic" came, another generation of dynasty began to move.
"Magic" retired after those years, is the Lakers history of the real low period. But Worthy, Divac, Van Exel, Sebalos and others before and after, also force to ensure that the Lakers only missed the playoffs once (1994). By the time the Sharks traveled west to the City of Angels in 1996, the Lakers were on their way to new heights.
In 2004, the "OK Connection" disintegrated, O'Neal went east to Miami, and the Lakers were only pushed out of the playoffs in the 2004-05 season. In the last two years, although the Lakers could not escape the fate of the first round elimination, but the win rate has always been maintained at more than 50 percent. Kobe's pressure on the team's management to make changes this summer may also have a positive impact on the Lakers' revival.
The speed of the Lakers' revival is inseparable from Los Angeles' attraction to superstars. Chamberlain, Jabbar, O'Neal three centers, are not from the beginning of their careers played for the Lakers, but all "ghost" to join the Lakers, and for Los Angeles brought back the championship. But at the same time, the Lakers in the pursuit of superstars in the process of efforts, should not be ignored. Reconstruction of the team's vision and means, is the Lakers different from other dynasty team important characteristics, but also they can become the key to the "first luxury".
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The Lakers are in the most developed area of the West Coast of the United States in the Los Angeles area, plus from the 80s to save the league's Show Time, as well as three of the first-place combination of the last 10 years, won five championships, plus the team's total payroll almost every year is the highest, the nobility and strength of the full force of the people, if the team is not a team of nobility, then the whole NBA no one is a team.
The Kay team is also the aristocratic giants, but compared to the Lakers, the Kay team's suffocating pressure defense and teamwork style to say "aristocratic" is relatively out of place, and the number of championships taken by the 1 champion is also far from the number of championships of the Purple and Gold army, which of course refers to the most recent 10 years. 80's before the Kay is the first giants of the whole alliance, no doubt about it. The first time I've ever seen a team like this one, I've seen a team like it.