1999–2000 Los Angeles Lakers season

1999–2000 Los Angeles Lakers season
Pacific Division Champions
Twelfth NBA Championship
Head coach Phil Jackson
Owner(s) Jerry Buss
Arena Staples Center
Results
Record 67–15 (.817)
Place Division: 1st (Pacific)
Conference: 1st (Western)
Playoff finish NBA Champions
Stats @ Basketball-Reference.com
Local media
Television Fox Sports Net West, KCAL
Radio AM 570 KLAC
Los Angeles Lakers seasons
< 1998–99 2000–01 >

The 1999-2000 Los Angeles Lakers season was the 54th season of the franchise, 52nd in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and 40th in Los Angeles. They finished the regular season with 67 wins, finishing with the most wins since the 1971–72 team won a franchise record 69 games. The Lakers clinched the top seed in the playoffs for the 25th time in franchise history and the first in 9 years. Shaquille O'Neal was named the 2000 NBA MVP. The Lakers went on to win the 2000 NBA Finals 4-2 against the Indiana Pacers, earning the franchise its 12th NBA championship. It was the Lakers first championship since 1988 and was the first of the of Lakers' three-peat championships to begin the millennium.

Contents

Offseason

NBA Draft

Round Pick Player Position Nationality School/Club Team
1 23 Devean George Forward  United States Augsburg
2 30 John Celestand Guard  United States Villanova

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Transactions

The Lakers have been involved in the following transactions during the 1999-2000 season.

Trades

September 1, 1999
 To Los Angeles Lakers
A. C. Green		 To Dallas Mavericks
Sean Rooks
September 21, 1999
 To Los Angeles Lakers
Melvin Levett		 To Detroit Pistons
Derek Harper

Free agents

Player Former team
John Salley N/A
Ron Harper Chicago Bulls
Brian Shaw Portland Trail Blazers
Player New team
? ?

Roster

Depth chart

Pos. Starter Bench Reserve Inactive
C Shaquille O'Neal Travis Knight
PF A. C. Green Robert Horry John Salley
SF Glen Rice Rick Fox Devean George
SG Kobe Bryant Brian Shaw John Celestand
PG Ron Harper Derek Fisher Tyronn Lue

Regular season

Standings

Pacific Division W L PCT GB Home Road Div
y-Los Angeles Lakers 67 15 .817 – 36–5 31–10 20–4
x-Portland Trail Blazers 59 23 .720 8 30–11 29–12 21–3
x-Phoenix Suns 53 29 .646 14 32–9 21–20 15–9
x-Seattle SuperSonics 45 37 .549 22 24–17 21–20 12–12
x-Sacramento Kings 44 38 .537 23 30–11 14–27 9–15
Golden State Warriors 19 63 .232 48 12–29 7–34 2–22
Los Angeles Clippers 15 67 .183 52 10–31 5–36 5–19

Game log

Pre-season

Regular season

Playoffs

Player stats

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game

Regular season

Player GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
Kobe Bryant 66 62 38.2 .468 .319 .821 6.3 4.9 1.61 .94 22.5
John Celestand 16 0 11.6 .333 .222 .833 .7 1.2 .44 .00 2.3
Derek Fisher 78 22 23.1 .346 .313 .724 1.8 2.8 1.03 .04 6.3
Rick Fox 82 1 18.0 .414 .326 .808 2.4 1.7 .63 .32 6.5
Devean George 49 1 7.0 .389 .340 .659 1.5 .2 .20 .08 3.2
A. C. Green 82 82 23.5 .447 .250 .695 5.9 1.0 .65 .22 5.0
Ron Harper 80 78 25.5 .399 .311 .680 4.2 3.4 1.06 .49 7.0
Robert Horry 76 0 22.2 .438 .309 .788 4.8 1.6 1.11 1.05 5.7
Sam Jacobson 3 0 6.0 .556 .000 .000 .3 .7 .33 .00 3.3
Travis Knight 63 0 6.5 .390 .000 .607 2.0 .4 .10 .37 1.7
Tyronn Lue 8 0 18.2 .487 .500 .750 1.5 2.1 .38 .00 6.0
Shaquille O'Neal 79 79 40.0 .574 .000 .524 13.6 3.8 .46 3.03 29.7
Glen Rice 80 80 31.6 .430 .367 .874 4.1 2.2 .59 .15 15.9
John Salley 45 3 6.7 .362 .000 .750 1.4 .6 .18 .31 1.6
Brian Shaw 74 2 16.9 .382 .310 .759 2.9 2.7 .47 .19 4.1

Playoffs

Player GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
Kobe Bryant 22 22 39.0 .442 .344 .754 4.5 4.4 1.45 1.45 34.1
Derek Fisher 21 0 15.3 .430 .414 .760 1.0 2.0 .52 .05 4.7
Rick Fox 23 0 14.4 .452 .462 .762 1.7 1.2 .39 .00 4.3
Devean George 9 0 5.0 .368 .200 .545 1.1 .2 .11 .00 2.4
A. C. Green 23 23 18.7 .411 .000 .696 4.2 .6 .61 .13 3.9
Ron Harper 23 23 28.0 .431 .231 .702 3.7 3.2 1.00 .57 8.6
Robert Horry 23 0 26.9 .407 .288 .702 5.3 2.5 .87 .83 7.6
Travis Knight 14 0 3.4 .533 .000 .333 .4 .0 .07 .21 1.3
Shaquille O'Neal 23 23 43.5 .566 .000 .456 15.4 3.1 .57 2.39 30.7
Glen Rice 23 23 33.3 .408 .418 .798 4.0 2.1 .65 .17 12.4
John Salley 18 0 4.3 .385 .000 .700 1.2 .2 .06 .33 .9
Brian Shaw 22 1 18.5 .421 .333 .813 2.3 3.0 .50 .18 5.4

2000 NBA Finals

Summary

The following scoring summary is written in a line score format, except that the quarter numbers are replaced by game numbers.

Team Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Game 4* Game 5 Game 6 Wins
Los Angeles (West) 104 111 91 120 87 116 4
Indiana (East) 87 104 100 118 120 111 2

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Lakers Roster

Head Coach: Phil Jackson
Shaquille O'Neal | Kobe Bryant | Glen Rice | Ron Harper | Rick Fox | Derek Fisher | John Salley | Robert Horry | A. C. Green | Tyronn Lue | Brian Shaw | Devean George | John Celestand | Travis Knight |

Award winners

References

  1. ^ http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/1999/draft/draftboard/nba_teams/lal/
  2. ^ 2000 NBA Playoff Summary - Basketball-Reference.com

2 Derek Fisher | 3 Devean George | 4 Ron Harper | 5 Robert Horry | 8 Kobe Bryant | 10 Tyronn Lue | 11 John Celestand | 16 John Salley | 17 Rick Fox | 20 Brian Shaw | 34 Shaquille O'Neal (Finals MVP) | 40 Travis Knight | 41 Glen Rice | 45 A. C. Green 
Head coach Phil Jackson
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