Editing Boston Celtics (section)

===Los Angeles Lakers===
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The rivalry between the Boston Celtics and [[Los Angeles Lakers]] involves the two most storied franchises in NBA history. It has been called the NBA's best rivalry.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/1003/nba.best.rivalries/content.1.html|title=NBA;s Best Rivalries|access-date=June 3, 2011|magazine=Sports Illustrated|archive-date=February 23, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120223113032/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/1003/nba.best.rivalries/content.1.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> The two teams have met a record twelve times in the [[NBA Finals]], starting with their first Finals meeting in {{NBA Finals Year|1959}}. They would go on to dominate the league in the 1960s and the 1980s, facing each other six times in the 1960s, three times in the 1980s, in 2008, and in 2010.

The Celtics have won the first eight finals meetings, while the Lakers won three of last four.

The rivalry had been less intense since the retirements of [[Magic Johnson]] and Larry Bird in the early 1990s, but in 2008 it was renewed as the Celtics and Lakers met in the Finals for the first time since 1987, with the Celtics winning the series in six games. They faced off once again in the [[2010 NBA Finals]] which the Lakers won in seven games. The two teams are first and second for the highest number of championships, with the Celtics leading the Lakers, 18 titles to 17; together, their 35 championships account for almost half of the [[List of NBA champions|78 championships]] in NBA history.