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The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles . The Lakers compete in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ), as a member club of the league ' s Western Conference Pacific Division . The Lakers play their home games at Staples ___MASK72___ , an arena shared with the NBA ' s Los Angeles Clippers , the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women ' s National Basketball Association , and the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League . The Lakers are one of the most successful teams in the history of the NBA , and have won 16 NBA championships , their last being in 2010 . As of 2015 , the Lakers are the second most valuable franchise in the NBA according to " Forbes ", having an estimated value of $ 2 . 7 billion . Moda ___MASK72___ , formerly known as the Rose Garden , is the primary indoor sports arena in Portland , Oregon , United States . It is suitable for large indoor events of all sorts , including basketball , ice hockey , rodeos , circuses , conventions , ice shows , concerts , and dramatic productions . The arena has a capacity of 19 , 393 spectators when configured for basketball , fewer for other events . The arena is equipped with state - of - the - art acoustics and other amenities . Christopher Zane Kaman ( born April 28 , 1982 ) is an American - German professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) . Kaman stands 7 ' 0 `` ( 2 . 13 m ) and weighs 265 pounds ( 120 kg ) . He was selected sixth overall in the first round of the 2003 NBA draft by the Los Angeles Clippers , after a college basketball career at Central Michigan University . The Women ' s National Basketball Association ( WNBA ) is a professional basketball league in the United States . It currently is composed of twelve teams . The league was founded on April 24 , 1996 , as the women ' s counterpart to the National Basketball Association ( NBA ). League play started in 1997 ; the regular season is currently played from June to September with the All Star game being played midway through the season in July and the WNBA Finals at the ___MASK90___ of September until the beginning of October . Staples ___MASK72___ is a multi - purpose sports arena in Downtown Los Angeles . Adjacent to the L . A . Live development , it is located next to the Los Angeles Convention ___MASK72___ complex along Figueroa Street . Opening on October 17 , 1999 , it is one of the major sporting facilities in the Greater Los Angeles Area . Basketball is a sport that is played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court . The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop in diameter and mounted at a height of to backboards at each ___MASK90___ of the court . The game was invented in 1891 by Dr . James Naismith , who would be the first basketball coach of the Kansas Jayhawks , one of the most successful programs in the game ' s history . The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles . They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ( NHL ). The team was founded on June 5 , 1967 , after Jack Kent Cooke was awarded an NHL expansion franchise for Los Angeles on February 9 , 1966 , becoming one of the six teams that began play as part of the 1967 NHL expansion . The Kings called The Forum in Inglewood , California ( a suburb of Los Angeles ), their home for thirty - two years until they moved to the Staples ___MASK72___ in Downtown Los Angeles to start the 1999  2000 season . The Portland Trail Blazers , commonly known as the Blazers , are an American professional basketball team based in Portland , Oregon . The Trail Blazers compete in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) as a member club of the league ' s Western Conference Northwest Division . The team played its home games in the Memorial Coliseum before moving to Moda ___MASK72___ in 1995 ( called the Rose Garden until 2013 ). The franchise entered the league as an expansion team in 1970 , and has enjoyed a strong following : from 1977 through 1995 , the team sold out 814 consecutive home games , the longest such streak in American major professional sports at the time , and only since surpassed by the Boston Red Sox . The Trail Blazers have been the only NBA team based in the bi - national Pacific Northwest , after the Vancouver Grizzlies relocated to Memphis and became the Memphis Grizzlies in 2001 , and the Seattle SuperSonics relocated to Oklahoma City and became the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2008 . The Los Angeles Clippers , often abbreviated as the LA Clippers , are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles . The Clippers compete in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) as a member club of the league ' s Western Conference Pacific Division . The Clippers play their home games at Staples ___MASK72___ in downtown Los Angeles , an arena shared with the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA , the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women ' s National Basketball Association ( WNBA ), and the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League ( NHL ). The National Hockey League ( NHL ) is a professional ice hockey league currently composed of 31 member clubs . Of the 30 clubs currently playing , 23 are in the United States and 7 in Canada . Headquartered in New York City , the NHL is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world , and one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada . The Stanley Cup , the oldest professional sports trophy in North America , is awarded annually to the league playoff champion at the ___MASK90___ of each season . Los Angeles ( Spanish for " The Angels "), officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L . A ., is the second - most populous city in the United States ( after New York City ), the most populous city in California and the county seat of Los Angeles County . Situated in Southern California , Los Angeles is known for its mediterranean climate , ethnic diversity , sprawling metropolis , and as a major ___MASK72___ of the American entertainment industry . Los Angeles lies in a large coastal basin surrounded on three sides by mountains reaching up to and over .