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From: "danrl99" <danrl@...>
Date: Mon Jul 6, 2009 2:10 pm
Subject: Lakers Start in Detroit

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In the latest issue of ESPN The Magazine they have an article ranking all the

franchises in the four major leagues.  A sidebar shows all teams that have moved

more than once.  For the Lakers, they show the franchise moving from Detroit to

Minneapolis prior to the ultimate shift to LA.  Was this a true a franchise

shift or more of one disbanding and another starting up elsewhere?



--Dan Levitt

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From: marc hugunin <marc@...>
Date: Mon Jul 6, 2009 4:20 pm
Subject: Re: Lakers Start in Detroit

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Ben Bergen acquired the Detroit Gems for $15,000, which simply meant that he had acquired the right to field an NBL team. The Gems had collapsed and their players already dispersed. There would be more truth if you said the Lakers’ predecessor had been the Chicago Gears of the PBL, because when the Gears folded the Lakers picked up George Mikan from the Gears.

Anyway, the Detroit thing is technically correct I suppose, but as a practical matter it’s a stretch. Not one player or other employee ever worked for the Gems and the Lakers as far as I’m aware.

Marc

On 7/6/09 9:10 AM, "danrl99" <danrl@...> wrote:

In the latest issue of ESPN The Magazine they have an article ranking all the franchises in the four major leagues. A sidebar shows all teams that have moved more than once. For the Lakers, they show the franchise moving from Detroit to Minneapolis prior to the ultimate shift to LA. Was this a true a franchise shift or more of one disbanding and another starting up elsewhere?

--Dan Levitt

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