LOS ANGELES
Lakers/Clippers Basketball Timeline 1960
After 13 seasons in Minneapolis, where they won five NBA championships, the Lakers relocate to Los Angeles along with their AllStar forward Elgin Baylor and their rookie guard Jerry West.
NOVEMBER 15, 1960
Baylor scores an NBA record 71 points and grabs 25 boards in a win over the New York Knicks.
APRIL 18, 1962
L.A. battles Boston to seven games, plus an overtime, in the 1962 Finals, but the Celtics come out on top.
SEPTEMBER, 1965
Lakers owner Bob Short sells the franchise to Canadian entrepreneur Jack Kent Cooke for $5 million.
1967-68
Cooke moves the Lakers from the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena into the “Fabulous” Forum, a new $16 million, 17,000-seat arena in Inglewood, Calif.
JULY 9, 1968
The Lakers acquire the NBA’s reigning MVP Wilt Chamberlain from Philadelphia for center Darrall Imhoff, forward Jerry Chambers and guard Archie Clark.
MAY 5, 1969
West records a triple-double with 42 points, 13 rebounds and 12 assists in Game 7 of the 1969 NBA Finals, but it’s not enough, as the Bill Russell-led Celtics defeat the Lakers in the Finals for the fifth time this decade.
1971-72
Despite Baylor’s retirement nine games into the season, the Lakers reel off an incredible 33 consecutive wins, en route to a 69-13 record. At the conclusion of the season, Bill Sharman is named Coach of the Year and the Lakers defeat the Knicks, 4-1, to win their first NBA Championship since moving to L.A.
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