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    How did the Los Angeles Lakers get their name, are there lots of lakes in Los Angeles?

    Question #17895. Asked by Socrates. (Apr 03 02 9:44 PM)


    makebeleaffan

    		Before they moved to LA they were the Minneapolis Lakers (coming from Minnesota, being the land of a thousand lakes.)

    Apr 03 02, 10:01 PM
    Son of The Household Cavalry

    		The Los Angeles Lakers history - http://www.allsands.com/Sports/History/lakershistory_bcf_gn.htm
    The Lakers have come full circle. Although the team has come thousands of miles, won many championships and morphed into many different forms, the Lakers that won the title in 2000 are remarkably similar to the team that started it all back in Minnesota. Many people wonder how a basketball team from southern California got a nickname like Lakers. The franchise actually was nicknamed the Lakers in its days in Minneapolis, and decided to keep the name when it moved to LA.


    Apr 03 02, 10:04 PM

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