Lakers/Warriors Series Notes

Their 2023 clash was the eighth playoffs meeting between the Lakers and Warriors.

L.A. has now won seven of the eight series. Add, to enhance the note, an L.A. win in the “b.s.” play in round.

In all 8 seasons in which there was a Lakers/Warriors ‘offs clash, the eventual NBA champion either beat the Lakers/Warriors series winner (7 times) or won the title .

The Lakers were victorious in ’68,’69,’73,’77, ’87,’91and 2023 after having lost a best of 5 to the Warriors in 1967.

After 5 of the 8 series, the victorious team lost in the NBA final.

Those were the ’67 Warriors, and ’68,’69,’73 and ’91 Lakers.

Only the ’87 Lakers, who 7’d the Warriors in the “quarters,” won the title.

2023 was the second time a team that beat the Lakers in the semis, after an L.A. “quarters” win vs the Warriors, won the crown.

Portland (Trail Blazers) and current league champion, Denver (Nuggets-speaking of different these are decent “nuggets”/notes and I ponder getting those you eat with accumulated points, in a life that needs more “points”) won their lone titles, after sweeping the Lakers in the semis. Portland did so in ’77, the Nuggets first NBA season, and Denver did so in 2023, their 47th NBA and 56th overall season (9 in the ABA) to win their first title.

The great player, Nate Thurmond as a Warriors player in 1969, a year L.A. lost the NBA final to the Celtics. So often I have noted the details.