NBA Championships by team: Teams with most titles

16 - Los Angeles Lakers

Can Bron pull off the impossible and bring another championship to the Lakers?

The Los Angeles Lakers are the only basketball team other than the Chicago Bulls to stand a chance of being known by a nobody in Somalia. In terms of sustained success through the decades and the ability to ride bumpy rebuilds through quickly, no NBA franchise has been able to match the Lakers.

Initially based in Minneapolis, the Lakers moved to Los Angeles in 1961 and promptly became one of the best teams in the league after winning 5 titles in the 40s and 50s with George Mikan. Their best period in history was during the '80s, when they made 9 NBA Finals, winning 5 of those trophies with the likes of Big Game James Worthy, Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar headlining their successes.

The likes of Kobe and Shaq were able to bring 5 more championships to Beverly Hills in the noughties.