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Cooke made some drastic changes to the Lakers' look by outfitting them in purple (known as Forum blue until the early 1980s) and gold uniforms. 1967–78 [ edit ] The initial purple and gold look featured a slanted "Lakers" script and white numbers with either gold or purple drop shadows.
The Laker nickname came from the state of Minnesota being the Land of 10,000 Lakes. [12] [338] The team's colors are purple, gold and white. [339] [6] [340] The Lakers logo consists of the team name, "Los Angeles Lakers" written in purple on top of a gold basketball.
Purple is one of the least used colors in vexillology and heraldry. Currently, the color appears in only three national flags: that of Dominica, Spain, and Nicaragua, and one co-official national flag, the Wiphala (co-official national flag of Bolivia) [original research?].
The action of Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James during the national anthem prior to his team's matchup with the Los Angeles Clippers on Tuesday night has some fans on Twitter fuming,...
2007–2008: For home games, gold with purple lines and sparks on the side, with the name "Sparks" written across in purple. For away games, purple with golden yellow lines and sparks on the side, with the name "Los Angeles" in yellow. The uniform looks similar to the Los Angeles Lakers' uniform.
This setting, renamed "The Star-Spangled Banner", soon became a popular patriotic song. With a range of 19 semitones, it is known for being very difficult to sing, in part because the melody sung today is the soprano part. Although the poem has four stanzas, only the first is commonly sung today.
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In the course of the adoption of "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national anthem of the United States, a variety of people have either sung or performed the anthem using a variety of instruments and methods.
The "Hymn to Liberty", or "Hymn to Freedom" (Greek: Ὕμνος εἰς τὴν Ἐλευθερίαν, also Ὕμνος πρὸς τὴν Ἐλευθερίαν), is a poem written by Dionysios Solomos in 1823 that consists of 158 stanzas and some of its stanzas are used as the national anthem of Greece and Cyprus.
Created in 1979 at the request of Lakers owner Dr. Jerry Buss, this brass and rhythm ensemble performs at every Laker home game, including the playoffs, finals and regularly performs the national anthem before the game on the Crypto.com Arena court.