Lakers lead down to 17 wins -- All Time Regular Season Wins

[KGs Knee]

This is what I came up with

Lakers - 3,234 wins
Celtics - 3,217 wins

So the gap is definitely closing.

Look like we will be in line to pass them early next season.

I wonder how much longer the Celtics will be a clearly better team, though. The Lakers have some good young talent. I have my doubts they will be down for long. It would be unprecedented.

[RMO]

Whatever ESPN and other major outlets say is the truth, regardless of the facts. I do agree with you, the Lakers deciding 15 years ago to start hanging banners won in another city was bogus.

Thank you.  This bugs me the most.  When they were in the Forum there was nothing about the Minneapolis titles.  Through most of the 90's (mainly after Magic's retirement) they ranged from a bad team to an okay team.  Then Phil Jackson came, the laker buzz returned and that's (I think) when they started pushing the Minneapolis titles.  Just seemed like a whole marketing, chasing history spin to create more buzz.  It kills me too when ESPN goes out of their way to mention the number of titles they have.  "The 16 time champion lakers visit Charlotte tonight. . . "

[Celtics4ever]

Some of those wins were in Minny, all of us with the team in Boston.   Lakers are a transplant team, same for their titles won with Mikan.

[JSD]

This is what I came up with

Lakers - 3,234 wins
Celtics - 3,217 wins

So the gap is definitely closing.

Awesome Don, thanks for doing the leg work on this, it looks about right.

[RMO]

Anytime a laker fan says there should be an asterisk next to someone's championship, remember what you'll find at the bottom of any listing of teams and championships:

*Five when the team was in Minneapolis

[JSD]

Some of those wins were in Minny, all of us with the team in Boston.   Lakers are a transplant team, same for their titles won with Mikan.

5 titles belong to another city.


The LA Lakers sit at 11 titles.

1 West
5 Magic
3 Shaq
2 Kobe

[mgent]

Some of those wins were in Minny, all of us with the team in Boston.   Lakers are a transplant team, same for their titles won with Mikan.

5 titles belong to another city.


The LA Lakers sit at 11 titles.

1 West
5 Magic
3 Shaq
2 Kobe/Pau

Fixed.

[JSD]

This is what I came up with

Lakers - 3,234 wins
Celtics - 3,217 wins

So the gap is definitely closing.

Look like we will be in line to pass them early next season.

I wonder how much longer the Celtics will be a clearly better team, though. The Lakers have some good young talent. I have my doubts they will be down for long. It would be unprecedented.

But look how stacked the west is for years to come. Warriors, Blazers, Wolves, Spurs, Rockets, Thunder all project better without major roster shifts/injury.

[JSD]

Some of those wins were in Minny, all of us with the team in Boston.   Lakers are a transplant team, same for their titles won with Mikan.

5 titles belong to another city.


The LA Lakers sit at 11 titles.

1 West
5 Magic
3 Shaq
2 Kobe/Pau

Fixed.

I didn't want to sound too salty, but I hear you. I've looked up what Kobe has done without Shaq or Gasol, he's essentially Paul Pierce without KG.

[loco_91]

This is what I came up with

Lakers - 3,234 wins
Celtics - 3,217 wins

So the gap is definitely closing.

Look like we will be in line to pass them early next season.

I wonder how much longer the Celtics will be a clearly better team, though. The Lakers have some good young talent. I have my doubts they will be down for long. It would be unprecedented.

C's will be better for years I think. The Lakers' rebuild is currently in peril, what with Russell's video and the 44% chance that they have to give this year's pick to Philly. Even if they avoid those pitfalls, it's hard to see them making the playoffs until at least 2019.

[Denis998]

i remember when lakers fans were saying that they would be better than boston.

[SparzWizard]

Some of those wins were in Minny, all of us with the team in Boston.   Lakers are a transplant team, same for their titles won with Mikan.

And then Lakers fans be making excuses "well the Celtics won their championships when the league wasn't big so they don't count"

[mgent]

Some of those wins were in Minny, all of us with the team in Boston.   Lakers are a transplant team, same for their titles won with Mikan.

5 titles belong to another city.


The LA Lakers sit at 11 titles.

1 West
5 Magic
3 Shaq
2 Kobe/Pau

Fixed.

I didn't want to sound too salty, but I hear you. I've looked up what Kobe has done without Shaq or Gasol, he's essentially Paul Pierce without KG.

Not to mention, Bynum was a top 2-3 Center at that point, at least the same level of Ray Allen. Odom and Artest were both much better players than Rondo/Perk/Posey in '08.

Also, Paul Pierce > Kobe 

[jambr380]

Some of those wins were in Minny, all of us with the team in Boston.   Lakers are a transplant team, same for their titles won with Mikan.

What I don't understand is the inconsistency with this stuff. When the Pelicans changed their name from the Hornets, it was agreed that all Hornets records/history move back to the city of Charlotte; so, even though the Hornets franchise moved to New Orleans, the city of Charlotte maintained all of those previous statistics.

Why do the Lakers get to claim the titles that should [in theory] belong to the Wolves (based on the assertion above)? Is it just because they didn't technically change their name...when they clearly should have?

[GratefulCs]

They claim the titles because it makes them look better


They didn't claim them when they first moved