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Los Angeles Lakers: Greatest first round playoff showings in team history

The NBA Playoffs would have been underway right now and we likely would have been seeing the Los Angeles Lakers take on, and dominate, the Memphis Grizzlies in the first round.

However, we currently are without basketball, and any sports, for that matter, and we can only look back at the Lakers’ playoff history.

They certainly have a lot of it. As 16-time champions, there are countless moments and memories to reflect on, and some truly great showings in the first round of the playoffs.

In honor of this being when the first round was supposed to happen, we found the four greatest first-round playoff showings in Los Angeles Lakers’ history, starting in 1977 when the playoffs expanded to four total rounds.