The Los Angeles Lakers are the best team in the Western Conference and after defeating the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Clippers in back-to-back games, were many people’s favorite to win the NBA Championship before the current hiatus.
This team is not just special because it is the first competitive team that the Lakers have rolled out in quite some time, it is special because it compares to some of the greatest teams in franchise history.
To determine where this year’s Lakers ranked in a historical context, we used Basketball Reference’s Play Index Finder and sorted every Laker team by Simple Rating System (SRS).