The last time the Los Angeles Lakers and Phoenix Suns met in the playoffs was in the 2010 Western Conference Finals when Kobe Bryant led L.A. to a 4-2 series win on the way to the franchise’s 16th NBA Championship.
Coincidentally, there is a member of the current Lakers team who was around for that series, as a young Jared Dudley was an important player off the bench for those Suns.
The series itself has been somewhat forgotten thanks to the epic Lakers-Celtics NBA Finals that followed it, but it was a very close series that could’ve gone the other way if a couple of plays had gone the other way.