Lakers end Staples Center era with ugly loss to Spurs
by Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times
Dec 24, 2021
2 minutes
The Lakers will again play basketball inside this saucer-topped building. The banners and the retired jerseys will still hang. The statues in the courtyard won’t be relocated. The memories won’t be erased.
All that’s changing is a name, a new corporate sponsor replacing the Staples Center signage that provided a dateline for the last 22 years of Lakers basketball.
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