The 1982–83 NBA season was the Lakers' 35th season in the

NBA The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada). The NBA is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Ca ...

and the 23rd season in Los Angeles. The Lakers were attempting to become the first team since the Boston Celtics in 1969 to repeat as NBA Champions. However, on April 10, 1983, rookie and number one pick in the 1982 draft James Worthy injured his leg while attempting a putback in a home loss against Phoenix, ending his season. Even without Worthy for the playoffs, the Lakers made it to the NBA Finals, only to be swept in four games by the

Julius Erving Julius Winfield Erving II (born February 22, 1950), commonly known by the nickname Dr. J, is an American former professional basketball player. Erving helped legitimize the American Basketball Association (ABA), and he was the best-known player ...

and

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led

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. This was Pat Riley's first full season as Lakers head coach.

NBA draft

The Lakers were the defending league champions, which normally results in a low draft position, but the team had the top pick in the Draft thanks to a trade made years earlier. On February 15, 1980, the Lakers had sent Don Ford and their top pick in the 1980 NBA Draft (who turned out to be Chad Kinch) to the

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in exchange for Butch Lee and the Cavs' top pick in the 1982 NBA Draft.James Worthy Bio at NBA.com
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NBA draft lottery The NBA draft lottery is an annual event held by the National Basketball Association (NBA), in which the teams who had missed the playoffs the previous year participate in a lottery process to determine the draft order in the NBA draft. The NBA d ...

in 1985, the teams with the two worst records from the previous season would flip a coin flip for the top pick. Cleveland finished last in 1981–82, and the Lakers won the coin flip with the San Diego Clippers.

Roster

Regular season

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Game Log

Regular season

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Magic Johnson Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. (born August 14, 1959) is an American businessman and former professional basketball player. Often regarded as the greatest point guard of all time, Johnson List of NBA players who have spent their entire career w ...

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Denver Denver ( ) is a List of municipalities in Colorado#Consolidated city and county, consolidated city and county, the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Colorado, most populous city of the U.S. state of ...

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McNichols Sports Arena McNichols Sports Arena was an indoor arena located in Denver, Colorado, United States. Located adjacent to Mile High Stadium and completed in 1975, at a cost of $16 million, it seated 16,061 for hockey games and 17,171 for basketball games. Sp ...

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Norm Nixon Norman Ellard Nixon (born October 11, 1955) is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Los Angeles Lakers and the San Diego/Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also played with Scav ...

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12,815 , 2–1 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 4 , November 6 , @

Utah Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It is one of the Four Corners states, sharing a border with Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. It also borders Wyoming to the northea ...

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Salt Palace The Calvin L. Rampton Salt Palace Convention Center, more commonly known as the Salt Palace, is a convention center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Named after Utah's 11th governor, Calvin L. Rampton, the moniker "Salt Palace" was previously used by ...

11,869 , 3–1 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 5 , November 7 , Portland
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ( ; born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. , April 16, 1947) is an American former basketball player. He played professionally for 20 seasons for the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Associatio ...

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13,526 , 4–1 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 6 , November 9 ,

Kansas City The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its 14 counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (9 counties) and Kansas (5 counties). With and a population of more t ...

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12,402 , 5–1 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 7 , November 12 ,

Houston Houston ( ) is the List of cities in Texas by population, most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the county seat, seat of ...

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15,804 , 6–1 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 8 , November 14 ,

Cleveland Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the Canada–U.S. maritime border and approximately west of the Ohio-Pennsylvania st ...

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Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, also called the Madhouse Coliseum or Phoenix Memorial Coliseum, is a 14,870-seat multi-purpose indoor arena in Phoenix, Arizona, United States, located at the Arizona State Fairgrounds. It hosted the Phoenix Su ...

13,288 , 7–2 , - style="background:#fcc;" , 10 , November 17 , @

Dallas Dallas () is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of Texas metropolitan areas, most populous metropolitan area in Texas and the Metropolitan statistical area, fourth-most ...

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Reunion Arena Reunion Arena was an indoor arena located in the Reunion, Dallas, Reunion district of downtown Dallas, Texas, United States. The arena served as the primary home of the National Hockey League's (NHL) Dallas Stars and the National Basketball Ass ...

17,134 , 7–3 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 11 , November 19 , Washington
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14,945 , 8–3 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 12 , November 21 ,

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17,505 , 9–3 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 13 , November 24 , @

Seattle Seattle ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Washington and in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. With a population of 780,995 in 2024, it is the 18th-most populous city in the United States. The city is the cou ...

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Kingdome The Kingdome (officially the King County Stadium) was a multi-purpose stadium located in the Industrial District, Seattle, Industrial District (later SoDo, Seattle, SoDo) neighborhood of Seattle, Washington (state), Washington, United States. O ...

26,230 , 10–3 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 14 , November 26 , @

San Diego San Diego ( , ) is a city on the Pacific coast of Southern California, adjacent to the Mexico–United States border. With a population of over 1.4 million, it is the List of United States cities by population, eighth-most populous city in t ...

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12,077 , 11–3 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 15 , November 28 , Golden State
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16,125 , 12–3 , - style="background:#fcc;" , 16 , November 30 , @

San Antonio San Antonio ( ; Spanish for " Saint Anthony") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio. San Antonio is the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the ...

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HemisFair Arena HemisFair Arena (also known as the San Antonio Convention Center Arena) was an indoor arena located in San Antonio, Texas. It was home to the ABA/NBA's San Antonio Spurs from 1973 to 1993 and the San Antonio Force of the AFL during the 1992 sea ...

12,115 , 12–4 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 17 , December 1 , @

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8,786 , 13–4 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 18 , December 3 , Portland
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13,787 , 14–4 , - style="background:#fcc;" , 19 , December 5 ,

Philadelphia Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population, sixth-most populous city in the Unit ...

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Bob McAdoo Robert Allen McAdoo Jr. ( ; born September 25, 1951) is an American former professional basketball player and coach. He played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), where he was a five-time NBA All-Star and named the NBA Mos ...

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Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 36th vice president under P ...

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9,023 , 16–5 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 22 , December 11 , @ Golden State
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13,335 , 17–5 , - style="background:#fcc;" , 23 , December 14 , @ Portland
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New Jersey New Jersey is a U.S. state, state located in both the Mid-Atlantic States, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States, Northeastern regions of the United States. Located at the geographic hub of the urban area, heavily urbanized Northeas ...

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15,786 , 18–6 , - style="background:#fcc;" , 25 , December 18 , @ Phoenix
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12,856 , 18–7 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 26 , December 19 ,

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14,094 , 19–7 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 27 , December 22 ,

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12,358 , 20–7 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 28 , December 23 , @

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8,160 , 21–7 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 29 , December 26 , @

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10,833 , 22–7 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 30 , December 29 , @ Golden State
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13,335 , 23–7 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 31 , December 30 ,

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17,505 , 24–7 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 32 , January 2 ,

Detroit Detroit ( , ) is the List of municipalities in Michigan, most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is situated on the bank of the Detroit River across from Windsor, Ontario. It had a population of 639,111 at the 2020 United State ...

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18,482 , 25–8 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 34 , January 6 , @

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Richfield Coliseum Richfield Coliseum, also known as the Coliseum at Richfield, was an indoor arena located in Richfield Township, between Cleveland and Akron, Ohio. It opened in 1974 as a replacement for the Cleveland Arena, and had a seating capacity of 20,27 ...

11,270 , 26–8 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 35 , January 8 , @

New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York New York may also refer to: Places United Kingdom * ...

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Madison Square Garden Madison Square Garden, colloquially known as the Garden or by its initials MSG, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in New York City. It is located in Midtown Manhattan between Seventh Avenue (Manhattan), Seventh and Eighth Avenue (Manhattan), Eig ...

19,591 , 27–8 , - style="background:#fcc;" , 36 , January 11 , @

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Brendan Byrne Arena Meadowlands Arena (formerly Brendan Byrne Arena, Continental Airlines Arena and Izod Center) is a closed indoor sports and concert venue located in the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States. Since closing, ...

20,149 , 27–9 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 37 , January 15 , @

Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Georgia (U.S. state), most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. It is the county seat, seat of Fulton County, Georg ...

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Omni Coliseum Omni Coliseum (often called The Omni) was an indoor arena in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Completed in 1972, the arena seated 16,378 for basketball and 15,278 for ice hockey, hockey. It was part of the Omni Complex, now known as the CNN Cente ...

15,956 , 28–9 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 38 , January 19 ,

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Indiana Indiana ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north and northeast, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the s ...

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14,139 , 31–9 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 41 , January 25 , @ Portland
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12,666 , 32–9 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 42 , January 26 ,

Milwaukee Milwaukee is the List of cities in Wisconsin, most populous city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Located on the western shore of Lake Michigan, it is the List of United States cities by population, 31st-most populous city in the United States ...

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17,505 , 34–9 , - style="background:#fcc;" , 44 , January 30 , @

Boston Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...

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Boston Garden The Boston Garden was an arena in Boston, Massachusetts. Designed by boxing promoter Tex Rickard, who also built the third iteration of New York's Madison Square Garden, it opened on November 17, 1928, as "Boston Madison Square Garden" (later ...

15,320 , 34–10 , - style="background:#fcc;" , 45 , February 2 , @

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17,134 , 34–11 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 46 , February 4 , @

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(15) , Checkerdome , 35–11 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 47 , February 6 ,

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17,505 , 36–11 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 48 , February 8 , @

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19,726 , 37–11 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 49 , February 9 ,

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13,656 , 38–11 , - align="center" , colspan="9" bgcolor="#bbcaff", All-Star Break , - style="background:#cfc;" , - bgcolor="#bbffbb" , - style="background:#fcc;" , 50 , February 15 ,

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15,111 , 38–12 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 51 , February 17 , @

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17,134 , 39–12 , - style="background:#fcc;" , 52 , February 18 , @

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Kemper Arena Hy-Vee Arena, previously known as Kemper Arena, is an indoor arena located in Kansas City, Missouri. Prior to conversion to a youth sports and community gymnasium facility, Kemper Arena was previously a 19,500-seat professional sports arena. It ...

15,116 , 39–13 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 53 , February 20 , @

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Market Square Arena Market Square Arena (MSA) was an indoor arena in Indianapolis. Completed in 1974, at a cost of $23 million, it seated 16,530 for basketball and 15,993 for ice hockey. Seating capacity for concerts and other events was adjusted by the use of larg ...

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17,505 , 40–14 , - style="background:#fcc;" , 55 , February 26 , @

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12,097 , 40–15 , - style="background:#fcc;" , 56 , February 27 ,

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17,505 , 40–16 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 57 , March 1 , @

Chicago Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of Unite ...

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Chicago Stadium Chicago Stadium was an indoor arena in Chicago from 1929 to 1995. When it was built, it was the largest indoor arena in the world with a maximum seating capacity of 26,000. It was the home of the National Hockey League's Chicago Blackhawks and ...

15,307 , 41–16 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 58 , March 2 , @

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11,052 , 42–16 , - style="background:#fcc;" , 59 , March 4 , @ Washington
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17,118 , 42–17 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 60 , March 5 , @

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Pontiac Silverdome The Pontiac Silverdome (also known as the Silverdome) was a stadium in Pontiac, Michigan. It opened in 1975 and sat on 199 acres (51 ha) of land. When the stadium opened, it featured a fiberglass fabric roof held up by air pressure, the fi ...

25,278 , 43–17 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 61 , March 8 , @ Golden State
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17,505 , 45–17 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 63 , March 12 ,

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17,505 , 46–17 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 64 , March 16 , Phoenix
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16,060 , 47–17 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 65 , March 18 ,

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15,817 , 48–17 , - style="background:#fcc;" , 66 , March 19 , @

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13,075 , 48–18 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 67 , March 20 ,

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17,505 , 49–18 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 68 , March 22 ,

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17,505 , 50–18 , - style="background:#fcc;" , 69 , March 25 ,

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17,505 , 50–19 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 70 , March 27 ,

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14,719 , 51–19 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 71 , March 29 ,

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16,581 , 52–19 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 72 , March 31 , @

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18,045 , 54–20 , - style="background:#fcc;" , 75 , April 5 , @ Portland
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12,666 , 54–21 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 76 , April 7 , @ Phoenix
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14,660 , 55–21 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 77 , April 8 , Golden State
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15,176 , 56–21 , - style="background:#fcc;" , 78 , April 10 , Phoenix
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15,782 , 57–23 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 81 , April 15 ,

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17,505 , 58–23 , - style="background:#fcc;" , 82 , April 17 , Portland
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Playoffs

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Portland Portland most commonly refers to: *Portland, Oregon, the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon *Portland, Maine, the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine *Isle of Portland, a tied island in the English Channel Portland may also r ...

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16,239 , 2–0 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 3 , April 29 , @

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12,666 , 3–0 , - style="background:#fcc;" , 4 , May 1 , @

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(8) ,

(17) ,

15,782 , 3–1 , - style="background:#fcc;" , 5 , May 18 ,

L 112–117
,

(30) ,

(11) ,

(19) , The Forum
17,505 , 3–2 , - style="background:#cfc;" , 6 , May 20 , @

W 101–100
,

(28) ,

(15) ,

(16) ,

15,782 , 4–2 , - , - style="background:#fcc;" , 1 , May 22 , @

L 107–113
,

(26) , Mark Landsberger (10) ,

(11) , The Spectrum
18,482 , 0–1 , - style="background:#fcc;" , 2 , May 26 , @

L 93–103
,

(23) ,

(8) ,

(13) , The Spectrum
18,482 , 0–2 , - style="background:#fcc;" , 3 , May 29 ,

L 94–111
,

(23) ,

(15) ,

(13) , The Forum
17,505 , 0–3 , - style="background:#fcc;" , 4 , May 31 ,

L 108–115
,

(28) , 4 players tied (7) ,

(13) , The Forum
17,505 , 0–4 , -

Player statistics

''Note: GP= Games played; MPG= Minutes per Game; REB = Rebounds; AST = Assists; STL = Steals; BLK = Blocks; PTS = Points; PPG = Points per Game''

Season

Playoffs

Award winners/Honors

, Second Team All-NBA, All-Star *

Michael Cooper Michael Jerome Cooper (born April 15, 1956), nicknamed "Coop", is an American basketball coach and former player. He played for the Los Angeles Lakers during his entire career in the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning five NBA champ ...

, Second Team All-Defense *

, First Team All-NBA, All-Star * Jamaal Wilkes, All-Star * James Worthy, First Team All-Rookie

Transactions

Notes

References

*
Lakers on Basketball Reference
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