Lakers vs Celtics, which is the biggest basketball club?🏀🟡🟪🟢☘️

Nobody can doubt it, they are the two greats of NBA and the greatest rivalry in this sport. Next, we will measure their successes to show who is ahead.

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The best basketball in the world comprises 30 teams (at the expense of expansion rumors) but the big 2 above the rest are the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics. OK, Golden State Warriors have 7 titles but they have an uneven historical line in terms of wins now they have their name with the era of Curry, Thompson, Kerr and company in recent years, Chicago Bulls have 6 championships, all in the mythical Jordan and Phil Jackson era of the 90s, San Antonio Spurs had a great trident with Duncan, Ginobili and Parker under the direction of Greg Popovich with most of their titles in the 21st century, the rest are also framed in a single generation.

We wait for the NBA Finals 2022 to see if this article was done or not, but the Warriors ended up being the champions just over the Celtics, so it is appropriate to do this article because the parity in titles between them and the Angelenos continues.

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Green Bleed domain🏀🟢☘️

The Celtics began as a franchise in 1946, always in the great city of Massachusetts where they have always generated that green goblin culture, a color different from the other big teams in the city such as the Red Sox of baseball, the Bruins of hockey or the Patriots of American football. . His first and greatest era in the club's history occurred in the mid-1950s, right where the greatest historical emblem would arrive: Don Bill Russell, who would join the great talent of Bob Cousy the legendary coach Red Auerbach.

In the first year of the Lord of the Rings in the NBA, they achieved the first title in 1957, but it would be just a sample of what was to come, they managed to chain 8 consecutive titles in the league, the most powerful in history. That golden core would end in 1969 with his retirement and another ring being the 11th as an active player and to this day no one has reached him in that line, from that super dynasty Sam Jones had 10 titles, while John Havlicek, Tom Heinsohn, K. C. Jones and Tom Sanders culminated their careers with 8 rings, to this day no other player who is not from this team has achieved this balance, because the one who follows them did not play on that team and it is Robert Horry who was in league 2 decades later.

After those magical and unrepeatable years, they had two more titles with another group in the 70s and 3 more in another remembered era where the team leader was Larry Bird where there were no championships in a row but they did mark a respectable history both in the team as in the league, especially for remembered finals precisely against the Lakers which we will analyze the confrontations.

The most recent was in 2008, precisely against them in another select group of players where they were Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, the one who was a long-time king of Triple Ray Allen and a surrenderer Rajon Rondo.

Hollywood in the house 🏀🟡🟪

The history of the Lakers is different, they started very far from the great city of California. They had their first 2 decades in the north of the country since it was founded in 1947, in cold Minnesota, a state whose characteristics are its large surrounding lakes, hence the famous name of the team: the Laguneros. His first years in Minneapolis were very glorious, where they had 5 titles in the 50's when the NBA was just beginning as a professional league. They achieved the first three-peat in league history with players like George Mikan. Then they moved to Los Angeles in 1960, which decided not to change the name that identified the city where they lived, with another new star: Elgin Baylor, but he had the bad luck of not winning a title with the club.

In the new city, they had to suffer the super dynasty of the Celtics during the '60s which did not win any title in the nascent era of rock, however, they had the super historic 1971/72 season where they broke the record for wins in the regular season that lasted more than 20 years, including 33 wins in a row, something that no other professional sport in the USA has managed to break and be champions for the first time in 18 years with Wilt Chamberlain and Jerry West AKA the Logo at the helm.

But it would not be but in the 80s when the great symbol of this team would have a high weight in Los Angeles and beyond its borders, where they made a 180º turn by signing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1976 but had to wait a few years later to put together a mythological duo with Magic Johnson who dominated that decade obtaining 5 titles with their unique Showtime style, in the middle they faced each other in the finals against Bird's Celtics that left unforgettable pitched battles. With Don Pat Riley at the helm, they brought back another dynasty that they needed for 30 years, creating a great symbol in the league, right at a time when hip-hop was born, creating that culture and social connection, together with the championships won. Kareem won 6 rings as a player, while Magic won 5 all with the gold team.

The 90s seemed like another nightmare was coming again, more so with the departure of that great duo, if they suffered a while longer where the era of the Pistons' Bad Boys, Jordan's Bulls and even the Olajuwon Rockets were interspersed. It was until 1996 that they took none other than Kobe Bryant from the Draft and if that was not enough, they signed Shaquille O'Neal from the Orlando Magic where one of the most mythological duos in the history of world sport was complemented, apart from the direction of the historic Phil Jackson, who had won it all with Michael Jordan on the Bulls. Together with other essential players such as Robert Horry, Rick Fox and Derek Fisher they returned to the mecca and won the last three-peat in the NBA so far, winning from 2000 to 2002. Shaq left this team in 2004, with Kobe as the only leader but then They added other players such as Pau Gasol, who achieved another important bi-championship in 2009 and 2010. The Philadelphia myth won 5 titles, while Shaq triumphed 4 times in total, the other he achieved in Dwayne Wade's Miami Heat.

Without Kobe, without Shaq, even with the last years of KB Lakers lost a lot of competitiveness and lasted 7 years without qualifying for the playoffs, the highest historical negative streak, in that period they had to look for a new leader to obtain as a precious jewel another historic basketball like LeBron James, who together with Anthony Davis and the so-called Baby Lakers, were able to put together a compact team for the very emotional 2020 season, plus a world-historic break due to the pandemic, in the resumption with the great season shown it translated into the championship most recent and with the top star of the league included in recent years, achieving his 4th ring as a player so far.

Direct Matches⚔️🔥

The Lakers also have 32 titles in the Western Conference and 34 in their division, while the Celtics have 22 titles in the Eastern Conference and 23 in the division, but we all know it, including them, the one that matters the most is winning the NBA Finals. which both have 17 championships.

They are the teams that have seen each other in the NBA Finals the most times with 12 matches, of which the Celtics have been the winners 9 times. Between 1959 and 1969 they faced each other 7 times, of which Bill Russell and company managed to win the finals. It would be in the 80s that the Lakers would finally take revenge on the goblins who managed to beat them in 2 of 3 epic finals in that decade. In 2008 and 2010 the rivalry between the two would be reborn when they found themselves fighting for the title, Celtics reigned in 6 games in the first and Lakers reached the maximum of 7 games in 2010 to achieve an epic victory consecrating that generation of players.

If a total conclusion can be drawn, this is one's own opinion. The Celtics achieved the greatest dynasty and dominance in history, winning 11 titles with the same group in the 50-60s, however, despite the tremendous group in the 80s, the history of the team leads us more to those two, while the Lakers have titles in different parts of history, there is no doubt that it is the team with the most legends in basketball, they have been champions in black and white, color TV, standard definition, HD and even in 4K, the stars they call have not failed to achieve history and become pure legends of the team, you know more about the history of the Laguneros from head to toe, many want to play and win everything there.

As long as this parity of titles is maintained, we can say that the Lakers have a slight margin of historical advantage over the Celtics due to their constant triumphs and world impact, although we always owe high respect to both franchises.