Product Details

• Actors: Los Angeles Lakers
• Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Team Marketing
• DVD Release Date: July 27, 2010
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B003LRVN6Y
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,320 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

In the 2010 season, one challenger after another tried to knock the Los Angeles Lakers off their NBA throne. But in the end, the Lakers reigned supreme once again, winning their 16th NBA championship in a drive that culminated with an NBA Finals triumph over the arch-rival Boston Celtics, led by Finals MVP Kobe Bryant. From the start of the season, the Lakers focused on their goal of repeating as champions. With Kobe delivering a string of game-winning shots, along with the emergence of All-Star big man Pau Gasol, and a strong supporting cast, the Lakers finished with the best record in the West. In the playoffs, L.A. survived a challenge from up and coming Oklahoma City, swept past Utah, and held off Phoenix to set up a rematch with the team that defeated them in the 2008 Finals, the Boston Celtics. In the latest chapter of the leagues greatest rivalry, the Lakers battled their way past Boston in a thrilling 7 game series to earn redemption, as Kobe won his fifth championship ring, and Phil Jackson his record 11th as a head coach. Relive the Lakers stirring run to glory on this action-packed DVD. You ll get the inside story of the NBA champs with exclusive behind the scenes footage and interviews, along with fantastic highlights of their championship season and also exciting bonus features. Enjoy the ride as the Lakers complete the road to a repeat.

Customer Reviews

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great team, Good, but not great DVD, July 27, 2010

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Mo - See all my reviews

This review is from: 2010 NBA Champions Los Angeles Lakers (DVD)

While I am a HUGE Laker fan and I had a great time watching them this season (especially going to game 7), I found this DVD to be a good, but not great, re-cap to the season. I have no complaints about the main content, going through the season, the rounds of the playoffs and each game of the Finals, but I didn't like the extra features that were thrown in. They were very generic (Sounds of the NBA Playoffs) and not Laker-centric. I would figure that since this is the Lakers Championship DVD, all of the material would cover the Lakers. Unlike the 2008-2009 DVD, this one did not have ANY game recaps (hello...4th quarter of game 7 anyone?), no extras on the Laker members, coach Jackson, or Laker greats. It left me feeling a little disappointed. Don't get me wrong, the main content of this disc was great. But compared to the DVD from the Lakers-Orlando Finals of last year, I would figure they would've had so much more material to offer for a Lakers-Celtics Final.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars "It was tough sledding out there.", August 1, 2010

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H. Bala "Me Too Can Read" (Just moved to posh Marina Del Rey, CA - where if you drop a quarter, why, you just keep on walking) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 2010 NBA Champions Los Angeles Lakers (DVD)

This DVD has a running time of around 85 minutes and pulls material from the ESPN documentary The Association: Los Angeles Lakers. It gives an overview of the Lakers' regular season and then quickly dives into the playoffs, and there it rapidly checks off the Lakers' progression thru the western conference. The meat of this documentary - and this part lasts about 45 minutes long - is devoted to comprehensive coverage of the Lakers-Celtics Finals, followed by the post-game celebrations. We see clips of the Lakers Victory Parade over the closing credits. Somewhere during all this, we also get very nice personal pieces focusing, respectively, on Ron Artest, Derek Fisher, and Phil Jackson.

The 2009-2010 Los Angeles Lakers season, and what I remember: Kobe's memorable game winners and his playing thru injuries; worrying about Ron Artest and for months wondering if we should've kept Ariza; Bynum's showing what he's made of, playing his bum knee in the playoffs; Gasol and Fish, steady as bedrock; Odom becoming a reality show star, doing commercials; Shannon's stinking it up at the All-Star Weekend Dunk Contest; foam fingers being thrown on the Staples Center floor during that disastrous Christmas game against Cleveland; the first round scare against Oklahoma City, Kobe's amazing Game 6 performance in the Western Conference Finals and a pat on the bum of Suns coach Alvin Gentry; and the 2010 NBA Champs goofing around on the Jimmy Kimmel show. But can I talk about the NBA Finals Game Seven? That tooth-and-nail contested Game Seven?

I've never hated the Boston Celtics more, never respected the Celtics more. I went to this game, blew a paycheck and sat in the boonies way up high in Staples Center, and the tension was so unbelievably thick. Be careful what you wish for. Laker fans wanted Boston real bad for payback. Boston almost made Laker fans rue the day... again. Someone somewhere coined the perfect phrase right after it was over, remarking that this Game Seven was THE best bad game he'd ever seen, and I couldn't agree more. My heart palpitations couldn't agree more. This was one of the most grueling, most taxing, most nerve-wracking series I have ever sweated thru.

83 to 79, as low a final score as can be. And if you didn't already know who won Game Seven, you'd assume the Celtics took it. The outcome was predicated on stifling defense, and so it's even sweeter that the Lakers beat the Celtics at their own game. No one could buy a bucket, not even the Mamba who had a horrible game and would later admit that he wanted it so bad it got away from him. This game, if nothing else, illustrates that while the NBA may be star driven, it's the team that wins the game. Kobe's teammates had his back, everyone made crucial plays down the stretch, even Sasha. Geez, how clutch is Fisher? How crazy entertaining is Artest? How much does Gasol resemble a stork?

The bonus stuff on last year's 2008-2009 NBA CHAMPIONS DVD kicks this DVD's bonus stuff to the curb. Disappointingly, the bonus stuff here doesn't exclusively feature the Lakers, but rather the NBA teams in the 2010 playoffs. We see the very brief promotional pieces which ran thru the 2010 NBA playoffs as various NBA stars give sound bytes regarding this theme and that theme ("Belief," "Unity," "The Journey," and "Dream"). In "Sounds of the Playoffs" we get sight and sound footage of selected playoff teams as they go thru the 1st Round (00:04:42 minutes) and the Conference Semi-Finals (but no Lakers-Jazz, 00:03:52). And when we get to the Conference Finals, it features only the Boston-Orlando series (0:03:00); and then we get the top ten plays of the year, with Kobe garnering two of the plays (00:02:26). I was hoping Artest's disarmingly insane post-game interview at the dais would be included, or at least the immediate post-game interview he conducted with Doris What's-Her-Face in which he thanked his 'hood and his psychiatrist and then promoted his single... but nah. These are incredibly lame bonus features.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Great Championship Year! DVD not so much..., July 31, 2010

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Eight Rays "of the Sun" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 2010 NBA Champions Los Angeles Lakers (DVD)

The content itself was good but most of the content that was in here was already showcased in "The Association" narrated by Andy Garcia with just the addition of the Lakers Parade and The Finals. I liked the narration by Andy Garcia much better than the DVD. Even the starting menu was low grade with the horrible background music. The quality of the video itself isn't even in HD and in these high tech times, that's horrible. I'm a big Lakers fan and this DVD fell short of my expectations.