Los Angeles Lakers
As the Minneapolis Lakers, the team holds the record for the lowest-scoring NBA game ever played along with the Fort Wayne Pistons. On November 22, 1950, the Lakers were leading until the fourth quarter, when the Pistons pulled ahead to win 19-18. This took place in a time before efforts were made to speed up gameplay, such as the addition of the shot clock. Poker Legend Doyle Brunson claims in his book Super/System that the (then) Minneapolis Lakers had been making offers to sign him while he was playing college Basketball, until he broke his leg hauling sheet rock. Los Angeles is the only city to have two NBA teams (the other team being the Los Angeles Clippers). The Lakers and Miami Heat have a tradition of playing each other on Christmas Day. There has been a meeting between the Lakers and Heat on this day every year since 2004, when center Shaquille O'Neal was traded to Miami during the summer of 2004. However, this season will not have a Lakers-Heat match on Christmas Day, though, they will still appear on that day facing the Phoenix Suns and the Cleveland Cavaliers respectively. Former owner Jack Kent Cooke liked the color purple but disliked the term purple. As a result, during the era of his ownership, the colors he had chosen for his team were referred to as "Forum blue" and gold, rather than purple and gold. Even after Cooke sold the team, announcer Chick Hearn still sometimes used the description when describing the uniforms. The Los Angeles Lakers were the first team to own a NBDL team, the Los Angeles D-Fenders. Kobe Bryant's 81-point performance against the Toronto Raptors on January 22, 2006 was the second highest point total in league history next to Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point performance against the New York Knicks on March 2, 1962. In the videogame NBA Ballers there is an unlockable video titled "How to Stop the Lakers" in reference to their championship runs in the early 2000s. In 1969, Jerry West became the only player on the losing team ever to win the NBA Finals MVP award.

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