L.A. Lakers History: Lakers Head-to-Head Records Against all the NBA Teams

All-time Lakers performance against the other NBA franchises. Includes win, losses, total games in the regular season and the playoffs.

The Lakers have played 5990 games in the regular season and 777 in the playoffs. Here you have the details of the Lakers performance against every NBA team. Note that in this list the teams are named with their current name but include all the variants of the franchises, this is the Atlanta Hawks include the Lakers record against the St. Louis Hawks or the Sacramento Kings include the Lakers record head-to-head against the Kansas City Kings and the Rochester Royals and so on... If you want more detailed information we have a detailed list with the head-to-head records against every variant of each franchise.

In the regular season the Lakers have positive records against all the NBA teams with the only exception of the the Boston Celtics. In the playoffs they also win most of the matchups with the exceptions of the Celtics and the Milwaukee Bucks.

Lakers Head-to-Head Records Against All The Other NBA Teams:

Season Playoffs
  G W L Winning % G W L Winning %
  Lakers Totals: 5990 3539 2451 .591   777 464 313 .597  
Season Playoffs
Franchise G W L Winning % G W L Winning %
Atlanta Hawks 339 196 143 .578   56 30 26 .536  
Boston Celtics 300 134 166 .447   74 31 43 .419  
Brooklyn Nets 98 68 30 .694   4 4 0 1.000  
Charlotte Hornets 67 42 25 .627   0 0 0 0  
Chicago Bulls 163 96 67 .589   28 17 11 .607  
Cleveland Cavaliers 122 69 53 .566   -
Dallas Mavericks 174 117 57 .672   22 12 10 .545  
Denver Nuggets 192 113 79 .589   37 25 12 .676  
Detroit Pistons 348 214 134 .615   47 26 21 .553  
Golden State Warriors 437 262 175 .600   42 29 13 .690  
Houston Rockets 237 148 89 .624   40 24 16 .600  
Indiana Pacers 98 64 34 .653   7 5 2 .714  
Los Angeles Clippers 239 153 86 .640   -
Memphis Grizzlies 104 64 40 .615   -
Miami Heat 72 39 33 .542   -
Milwaukee Bucks 145 85 60 .586   16 6 10 .375  
Minnesota Timberwolves 128 85 43 .664   13 9 4 .692  
New Orleans Pelicans 74 46 28 .622   6 4 2 .667  
New York Knicks 299 173 126 .579   29 16 13 .552  
Oklahoma City Thunder 267 156 111 .584   41 26 15 .634  
Orlando Magic 70 46 24 .657   5 4 1 .800  
Philadelphia 76ers 290 146 144 .503   34 20 14 .588  
Phoenix Suns 268 151 117 .563   68 40 28 .588  
Portland Trail Blazers 244 130 114 .533   53 36 17 .679  
Sacramento Kings 449 281 168 .626   37 26 11 .703  
San Antonio Spurs 188 95 93 .505   56 34 22 .607  
Toronto Raptors 54 32 22 .593   -
Utah Jazz 199 117 82 .588   31 17 14 .548  
Washington Wizards 201 124 77 .617   6 4 2 .667  

Against Defunct Franchises

Season Playoffs
  Franchises       Winning %       Winning %
Anderson Packers 2 1 1 .500   2 2 0 1.000  
Baltimore Bullets ** 37 30 7 .811   -
Chicago Stags 12 8 4 .667   4 4 0 1.000  
Denver Nuggets *** 2 2 0 1.000   -
Indianapolis Jets 6 6 0 1.000   -
Indianapolis Olympians 31 19 12 .613   7 6 1 .857  
Providence Steam
Rollers
5 5 0 1.000   -
Sheboygan Redskins 2 1 1 .500   -
St. Louis Bombers 12 9 3 .750   -
Washington Capitols 13 10 3 .769   6 4 2 .667  
Waterloo Hawks 2 2 0 1.000   -

* Lakers played 1 game against the Rochester Royals (win) and 2 against the St: Louis Hawks (1 win, 1 loss). Those games were to decide the final seed after a tie in the standings at the end of the regular season and are considered playoff games here.

** This is the original franchise called Baltimore Bullets and it only shares the name with the Baltimore Bullets version of the Washington Wizards.

*** This is the original franchise called Denver Nuggets. The current Nuggets share the name but are a different franchise.