Who Is Playing In The NBA Tonight?
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The Los Angeles Lakers
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 of the league’s Western Conference in the Pacific Division. The Lakers play their home games at Staples Center, 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.
The franchise began with the 1947 purchase of a disbanded team, the Detroit Gems of the National Basketball League (NBL). The new team began playing in Minneapolis, calling themselves the Minneapolis Lakers. Initially a member of the NBL, the Lakers won the 1948 NBL championship before joining 49 other NBL and Basketball Association of America (BAA) teams in 1949 when merged to form
the NBA.
The Los Angeles Clippers
TheLos Angeles Clippers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The Clippers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league’s Western Conference Pacific Division. The Clippers were founded in 1970 as the Buffalo Braves, one of three expansion teams to join the NBA that year. The Braves moved from Buffalo, New York to San Diego, California in 1978 and became known as the San Diego Clippers. In 1984, the franchise moved to Los Angeles.
The franchise began in Western New York as the Buffalo Braves, one of three NBA expansion franchises that began play in the 1970–71 season, along with the Portland Trail Blazers and Cleveland Cavaliers. They played their home games at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium from 1971 through 1978. The BRAVES and CLEVELAND CAVALIERS had advanced to the NBA playoffs three times prior to relocating to LA.
In 1976, Memorial Auditorium was replaced by a smaller, more modern arena also called Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, but commonly referred to as “The Aud”. Starting on April 10, 1977, the team will never again play a home game outside Los Angeles; they will play their final game as the Rochester Royals at Mayo Civic Center in Rochester against their longtime rivals Detroit Pistons on April 17th before permanently relocating to LA following the conclusion of that season’s playoffs.
who had also recently relocated from Cincinnati). The franchise continued its quest for respectability with four seasons with head coach Gene Shue (explaining why he is so revered among Clipper fans), but never again qualified for postseason play until finally reaching .500 for good under head coach Vince McMahon Sr..
The Milwaukee Bucks
The Milwaukee Bucks are an American professional basketball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Bucks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league’s Eastern Conference Central Division. The team was founded in 1968 as an expansion team, and play at the Fiserv Forum. Former U.S. Senator Herb Kohl was the long-time owner of the team, but on April 16, 2014, a group led by billionaire hedge fund managers Wesley Edens and Marc Lasry agreed to purchase a majority interest in the team from Kohl, a sale which was approved by the NBA Board of Governors on May 15; Kohl became a minority owner in this transaction. The new owners appointed Peter Feigin as the fifth president in franchise history on May 30.
The Toronto Raptors
The Toronto Raptors are a Canadian professional basketball team based in Toronto, Ontario. The Raptors compete in the National Basketball Association as a member of the league’s Eastern Conference Atlantic Division. The team was founded in 1995 as part of the NBA’s expansion into Canada, along with the Vancouver Grizzlies. Since [their debut season](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995%E2%80%9396_NBA_season), the Raptors have gained a significant following both inside and outside of Toronto, and are Toronto’s second basketball team after the Toronto Huskies (a predecessor of today’s [Mississippi Valley State University]] Delta Devils men’s basketball team) of the National Basketball League, which last played in 1947.
