The Los Angeles Lakers are arguably the most successful franchise in the history of the NBA. They’ve won 17 NBA titles and won the Western Conference 19 times, spreading that success surprisingly evenly over seven decades.
Since they were founded in 1947, they have only had one stretch where they were absent from the Conference Finals for more than six years. That one stretch went from 2010 to 2019 and covered the tail end of the Kobe Bryant era and the burgeoning of the turbulent LeBron James epoch (which may be coming to a surprisingly premature end).