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1961–62 Los Angeles Lakers season

Season of NBA team the Los Angeles Lakers

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ3837269 ↗
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The 1961–62 Los Angeles Lakers season was the Lakers' 14th season in the NBA and second season in Los Angeles. For the first time since 1959, the Lakers advanced to the NBA Finals, and it was the first NBA Finals appearance for the team in the city of Los Angeles. For the second time, they met the Boston Celtics, who they would meet five further times in the 1960s. However, the Lakers lost in seven games; Frank Selvy missed a potential winning shot in Game 7 after the Lakers had lost Game 6 in Los Angeles, and the Celtics pulled away in overtime to win their fourth straight title.

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“1961–62 Los Angeles Lakers season” enters the record as season of NBA team the Los Angeles Lakers. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Angeles, Lakers and season can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1961, 1959—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Angeles, Lakers and season.
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This entry incorporates text from “1961–62 Los Angeles Lakers season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.