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 6046 games in the regular season and 782 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: 6046 3574 2472 .591   782 465 317 .595  
Season Playoffs
Franchise G W L Winning % G W L Winning %
Atlanta Hawks 342 198 144 .579   56 30 26 .536  
Boston Celtics 301 135 166 .449   74 31 43 .419  
Brooklyn Nets 100 70 30 .700   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 125 70 55 .560   -
Dallas Mavericks 175 117 58 .669   22 12 10 .545  
Denver Nuggets 193 113 80 .585   42 26 16 .619  
Detroit Pistons 350 214 136 .611   47 26 21 .553  
Golden State Warriors 439 263 176 .599   42 29 13 .690  
Houston Rockets 238 148 90 .622   40 24 16 .600  
Indiana Pacers 100 65 35 .650   7 5 2 .714  
Los Angeles Clippers 240 153 87 .638   -
Memphis Grizzlies 109 68 41 .624   -
Miami Heat 74 40 34 .541   -
Milwaukee Bucks 146 86 60 .589   16 6 10 .375  
Minnesota Timberwolves 132 86 46 .652   13 9 4 .692  
New Orleans Pelicans 76 48 28 .632   7 5 2 .714  
New York Knicks 299 173 126 .579   29 16 13 .552  
Oklahoma City Thunder 268 156 112 .582   41 26 15 .634  
Orlando Magic 71 46 25 .648   5 4 1 .800  
Philadelphia 76ers 292 148 144 .507   34 20 14 .588  
Phoenix Suns 271 152 119 .561   68 40 28 .588  
Portland Trail Blazers 246 132 114 .537   53 36 17 .679  
Sacramento Kings 453 285 168 .629   37 26 11 .703  
San Antonio Spurs 191 97 94 .508   56 34 22 .607  
Toronto Raptors 57 35 22 .614   -
Utah Jazz 201 119 82 .592   31 17 14 .548  
Washington Wizards 203 126 77 .621   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.