List of Los Angeles Lakers seasons


The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California that competes in the National Basketball Association, which was formerly called the Basketball Association of America. Since 1999, the Lakers have played their home games at Staples Center. The Lakers' franchise was founded in 1947 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The first owners purchased the disbanded Gems from Detroit, Michigan, then renamed and moved the team. It was in Minneapolis where the Lakers received their official title from Minnesota's nickname, Land of 10,000 Lakes. The Lakers won five championships before relocating to Los Angeles for the 1960–61 NBA season. The Lakers went on to lose all of their six appearances in the NBA Finals in the 1960s, despite the presence of Elgin Baylor and Jerry West. In, the Lakers compiled a 33-game winning streak, the longest streak in U.S. professional team sports, and won their sixth title, under coach Bill Sharman. The Lakers' popularity soared in the 1980s when they won five additional championships during a nine-year span with the help of Hall of Famers Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Worthy and coach Pat Riley, the franchise's all-time leader in both regular season and playoff games coached and wins. Two of those championships during that span were against their arch-rivals, the Boston Celtics. With the help of Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, and Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson, the Lakers played in seven NBA Finals between 2000 and 2010, winning three of them consecutively from 2000 to 2002, losing the next two in 2004 and 2008, and winning in 2009 and 2010; the last three appearances were without O'Neal.
The Lakers hold records for having the most wins, the highest winning percentage, the most NBA Finals appearances of any NBA franchise, second-fewest non-playoff seasons with seven and are second NBA championships with 16, behind the Boston Celtics' 17. They have won 60+ regular season games 11 times, trailing only the Boston Celtics in this category.
However, the team has struggled in recent years. They are currently suffering the longest playoff drought in franchise history, having failed to qualify for the postseason for the past six years, after having missed the playoff only five times prior in their entire existence up to 2013; this period is only the second time in the team's entire history that they have missed out on playoff contention in consecutive seasons.

Table key

AMVPAll-Star Game Most Valuable Player
COYCoach of the Year
DPOYDefensive Player of the Year
FinishFinal position in league or division standings
GBGames behind first-place team in division
ItalicsSeason in progress
LNumber of regular season losses
EOYExecutive of the Year
FMVPFinals Most Valuable Player
JWKCJ. Walter Kennedy Citizenship
MVPMost Valuable Player
ROYRookie of the Year
SMOYSixth Man of the Year
WNumber of regular season wins

Seasons

Note: Statistics are correct as of the end of the.
NBA Champions
Division Champions / Conference Champions
Division Champions
Playoff berth

All-time records

Note: Statistics are correct as of the 2018 NBA playoffs.
StatisticWinsLossesWin%
Minneapolis Lakers regular season record 457382
Los Angeles Lakers regular season record 28761900
All-time regular season record 33332282'
Minneapolis Lakers post-season record 6740
Los Angeles Lakers post-season record 373257
All-time post-season record 440297'
All-time regular and post-season record37732579