One of the great parts about living in or near a big city in America is how near you have to watch your favorite professional sports teams. This will include some facts about the professional sports teams that are presently in LA where basketball, baseball, hockey and soccer all have teams in LA. The different factor and the disappointing factor is that LA is the biggest city in the US to not have its own NFL team, according to a Los Angeles emergency plumber. Despite the void of football in this sunny southern California town, residents love the other teams and treat them with as much importance as a middle of the nightplumbing emergency 90027.

Basketball is a popular pastime in LA, so much so that they have 2 NBA teams. The more successful one and the crowd favorite is definitely the LA Lakers that have been led by top players both past and present, Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Shaquille O’Neal. They originally got their name from being located in Minnesota where it is known as the land of 10,000 lakes and moved to LA in 1960. They are the current NBA champions and have been referred to as the greatest NBA franchise of all time by an ESPN reporter and basketball specialist.

The professional baseball team in Los Angeles is The Los Angeles Dodgers and play at Dodgers stadium. They started out as the Brooklyn Dodgers and moved to LA in 1958. The name Dodgers came from the name trolley dodgers that people from Brooklyn were sometimes called. The most famous ball player to have played for The Dodgers is Jackie Robinson and the best known manager who led the team was probably Tommy Lasorda. One of the things this club broke ground on doing was recruiting players from Asia starting in 1980. Now it is a common occurrence with most other MLB teams to sign players from China, Korea or Japan.

Usually, professional soccer does not have a very large fan base and pales in comparison to other sports like football, baseball and basketball. This is not the case for the team here called the Los Angeles Galaxy and that can be credited for two reasons, that they do not compete with a football team in the fall season and the huge popularity of David Beckham. This MLS team is located in Carson, California which is just outside Los Angeles and got it’s name noting all of the Hollywood stars in Los Angeles. In 2007, the team signed British superstar, David Beckham and after that the team has had the most profitable and greatest popularity of all MLS teams and record breaking attendance at their matches.

The last team is the Los Angeles Kings which are a hockey team playing in the National Hockey League and started in 1966. They presently play at the Staples Center along with the two NBA teams in LA and have a great fan base.