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Title: Opening game of the 1987-88 season for the Lakers
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Ruebsamen, James
Date Created and/or Issued: 1987
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated November 10, 1987 reads, "If it weren't for Magic Johnson and the remarkable Lakers, L.A. would be without a winning professional sports franchise." Xavier McDaniel (right), Derrick McKey (left) and an unidentified player (lower left) from the Seattle Supersonics are seen trying to get the ball from Johnson on November 8. The Lakers defeated the Supersonics, their first opponents of the 1987-88 season, 113-109.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00084594
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Johnson, Earvin - "Magic Johnson"
CARL0002887328
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/26490
Subject: Johnson, Earvin,--1959-
McDaniel, Xavier
McKey, Derrick
Los Angeles Lakers (Basketball team)
Seattle SuperSonics (Basketball team)
Forum (Inglewood, Calif.)
Basketball players--United States
Inglewood (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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