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In the winter of 1960, the Lakers survived the craziest scheduling the NBA has ever seen, playing nine games in nine nights and traveling to Pennsylvania, California, New York, Maryland, Rhode Island and Massachusetts before finally coming back to Minnesota. Then they got one day off.
This was a long time ago. The man whose silhouette is in the NBA logo, Jerry West, wasn’t even in the NBA. The Lakers hadn’t yet moved to Los Angeles….