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Purple and Gold: A History of the Los Angeles Lakers
Paperback
Series: Legendary Clubs
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ISBN13: 9798188331504
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 21 2026
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 21 2026
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Seventeen championships, two cities and eight decades - the complete, myth-busting history of the Los Angeles Lakers.
Seventeen championships. Two states. Eight decades. One franchise that never once waited its turn.
The Los Angeles Lakers did not become the most glamorous team in world sport by accident - and they did not become it by drafting well. They became it by acquiring: Mikan from a collapsed league, Chamberlain at thirty-one, Kareem by trade, Kobe on draft night, Shaq with cash, LeBron in free agency, and Luka Dončic in the middle of a February night, in the most improbable transaction the sport has ever seen. Purple and Gold tells that story in full: from a 4-40 team in Detroit bought for fifteen thousand dollars, through the Minneapolis dynasty, the beautiful losers of the sixties, Showtime, the three-peat, the bubble, and the ten-billion-dollar sale that ended forty-six years of Buss family ownership. It is also a book that refuses to repeat the myths. Jerry West's famous buzzer-beater did not win the 1970 Finals - it forced an overtime the Lakers lost. The 33-game winning streak did not open the season. Every chapter closes with a boxed panel headed The Proof - the dates, the scores, the transactions, laid out so the romance never has to be taken on faith. Complete through the summer of 2026, including LeBron James's departure and the rebuild around Dončic.Also from
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