Avishay Braverman (, born 15 January 1948) is an economics professor, politician, and Israeli public figure. Having held senior positions as economist at the World Bank, he was later elected as fifth president of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (1990-2006). As a Knesset member on behalf of the Labor Party (2006-2015) he served as Minister of Minority Affairs, Chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee and Chairman of the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee. Israel Prize laureate in 2020 for Lifetime Achievement, for his work as president of Ben-Gurion University.

Biography
Avishay Braverman was born in Ramat Gan, then Mandatory Palestine. His Polish-born father Jacob Braverman was a carpenter and his mother Sarah, a native of Lithuania, a kindergarten teacher. Braverman graduated from "Blich" High School in Ramat Gan, where he also served as captain of the basketball team. In 1968, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in Economics and Statistics from Tel Aviv University, summa cum laude as part of the Academic Reserve (Atuda) and later served as system analyst, with the rank of Lieutenant. He studied for a master's degree at Tel Aviv University and a Ph.D. in economics  from Stanford University, California, under the guidance of Professor Joseph Stiglitz.

Upon receiving his Ph.D. in 1976, he joined he World Bank in Washington, D.C. and served there for 14 years as senior economist and division chief. During those years, he led policy, research and development programs in South America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. In his final role, he was entrusted with the Bank's agricultural policies. During these years, he published numerous articles and edited several books dealing with topics related to development economics, agricultural economics, industrial organization, public policy and resource and water resource management.

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
In October 1990, he returned to Israel to serve as president of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, then a small university with approximately 5,700 students. In his first speech, he announced that the university would grow significantly on the basis of three principles: excellence in research, opening its doors to disadvantaged populations, and building a hi-tech park adjacent to the university.

His tenure was characterized by a great building momentum on the university's three campuses in Beer Sheva, Sde Boker and later, Eilat, and the initiation and establishment of many curricula and research programs, including: the Kreitman School of Advanced Graduate Studies; the National Institute of Biotechnology in the Negev, sponsored by the de Picciotto Family; the Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology; the reconfiguration of the Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research (BIDR) in Sde Boker which transformed under the renamed Institutes to incorporate three research institutes, among them, the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research (ZIWR), as well as the Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies; and on the Marcus Family Campus in Beer-Sheva, the Heksherim Research Institute for Jewish & Israeli Literature & Culture; further development and naming of the unique Joyce and Irvine Goldman School of Medicine, founded by the School's first Dean and first University President, the late Professor Moshe Prywes; establishing the Medical School for International Health (MSIH) in collaboration with Columbia University; the School of Management, later named the Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management; the Department of Computer Science; the Department for Computer Systems Engineering; the Pilots Training Course - a full undergraduate degree program for Israeli Air Force cadets in a combined Flight School and university setting, among others.

With a focus on community outreach and inspiring the city and region's populations to become an integral part of the university, under Braverman's tenure, the Robert H. Arnow Center for Bedouin Studies and Development was established, as was a socially-engaged complex designed to house the Department for Community Action sponsored by the Deichmann Family of Germany, to develop the university's social outreach with Jewish and Bedouin residents of Beer Sheva and the region, together with the Spitzer Department of Social Work. In addition, the Mandel Center for Leadership in the Negev was established in Beer Sheva.

Braverman enlisted extensive support from both private and governmental sources, to include in particular a fund to promote excellence in research named after Howard and Lotti Marcus worth approximately $450 million; and a grant from the German government for the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research in Sde Boker; initiating the establishment of an hi-tech park in an area adjacent to the university, as well as attracting the communications giant, Deutsche Telekom, to establish its first research facility outside of Germany at BGU. During his tenure, BGU engaged in various cooperative projects around the world and particularly in the Middle East, with Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority and the Gaza Strip, and UNESCO endorsed the BGU-initiated International Program for Arid Land Crops - the first such recognition of Israeli expertise by a UN organization. He also raised significant funds for the construction of the Beer-Sheva North/University train station and thé Mexico Bridge, connecting the university and the Advanced Technologies Park with central Israel. At the end of his tenure, there were approximately 18,000 students studying at the university, including 400 students from the Bedouin community in the Negev.

Between 1991 and 2005, he served as Chair of the Committee of University Heads (CUH) three times, was a member of the Public Committee for Election of Bank Directors (1993), served as Chairman of the Jerusalem Literary Award Committee (2003), Chairman of the Reserve Reform Committee appointed by the Minister of Defence (2005) ) and external director of Mackhteshim-Agan (now "Adama"), Israel Corporation, IDB Development and Dead Sea Works.

The Water Sector Report

In 1991, the World Bank initiated a series of studies to assess water needs in countries surrounding the Jordan Basin. The Israeli part of the research was entrusted to Prof. Avishay Braverman. The study involved various Israeli entities including the Israel Water Planning Authority, the Ministry of Defense and leading water experts in Israel and was managed by Nehemiah Hassid. The study's conclusions were submitted to the World Bank in August 1994 and recommended the development of seawater desalination and wastewater purification technology, in order to meet the water needs of Israel and the West Bank territories in accordance with the expected population growth. To date, this report has almost been fully implemented. It has also served water planners and those negotiating with the Kingdom of Jordan and the Palestinians.

Political career

In January 2006, Braverman joined the Labor Party and was elected as a member to the 17th Knesset. He served as a member of the Finance and Economic Affairs Committee and as Chairman of the Lobby for Retirees, and from July 23, 2008, until the end of the 17th Knesset term, served as Chairman of the Knesset's Finance Committee. Under his leadership, the committee approved the "Savers security net" as an appendage to dealing with the erosion in retirees' savings and caring for Israeli pensioners.

Following elections for the 18th Knesset, Braverman was appointed Minister for Minority Affairs in the 32nd government. In this role, Braverman highlighted the promotion of economic initiatives and economic development amongst the minority populations in Israel. In 2010, he initiated and submitted for government approval a multi-annual plan totaling 800 million NIS, the purpose of which was to promote economic initiative, infrastructure and development in Arab communities. Braverman promoted a program for allocation of 305 million NIS to Arab students and the granting of 1,600 scholarships to outstanding Bedouin students, invested in the promotion of research laboratories in Arab communities and assisted in establishing a national research and development center for the Druze population in Israel. Braverman also sought to include 40% of the Israeli minority population in the national priority map.

On January 17, 2011, he resigned as minister following the resignation of Ehud Barak from the Labor Party and the party's resignation from the coalition.

In 2013, he was appointed chairman of the Knesset Economic Affairs Committee, which put the natural gas monopoly on the agenda and demanded that the Commissioner of Restraint of Trade impose price controls on gas prices. Braverman was responsible for reforms in trade and industry, transport, communications, consumer protection and more. He also raised awareness for the need for long-term economic planning, the need for building industrial educational frameworks and the integration of all levels of the population into the labor market. Braverman advocated "enlightened capitalism" which emphasizes growth with fair distribution of income.

Prior to the March 2015 20th Knesset elections, Braverman announced that he would not run for another term and retired from political life.

Israel Prize
Professor Braverman is the 2020 Israel Prize laureate for Lifetime Achievement - a special contribution to society and state - for his contributions as President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

In their deliberations for awarding the prize, the judges stated that "The academic community conceived by Braverman, his participation in its design and the raising of funds for its establishment, accelerated the development of the city of Beer-Sheva and the entire Negev… Today Beer-Sheva  is a metropolitan area amalgamating cities and satellite towns, and at its center, the University, Soroka University Medical Center and the Advanced Technologies Park, where leading international companies operate in the field of information security and other technologies. Neighborhoods offering high-quality housing have been built around the university, a fact which has even contributed to the increase in real estate value in Beer-Sheva"..

Family

Avishay Braverman is married to architect Yael Braverman and is the father of two sons.

Prizes and awards
·        Israel Prize laureate for Lifetime Achievement - 2020

·        Membership in the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. The European academy bestowed upon him In November 2017, the Ring of Tolerance for his life work in Academia and Politics with Arabs, Muslims and Christians, in Israel and beyond.

·        Commander of the French Order of Academic Palms.

·        Honorary Doctorate from the Jewish Theological Seminary

·        Honorary Doctorate from Rand Afrikaans University

·        Honorary citizen of Beer-Sheva.

·        Ben-Gurion Prize

·        Quality in Government Prize in the State of Israel

Selected publications
·        K. Hoff, A. Braverman and J.E. Stiglitz (eds.) The Economics of Rural Organization:  Theory, Practice and Policy, Oxford University Press 1993, 589 pp.

·        A. Braverman and J.E. Stiglitz, "Sharecropping and the Interlinking of Agrarian Markets", American Economic Review, Vol. 72, No. 4, pp. 695–715, 1982

·        A. Braverman and J.L. Guasch, "Rural Credit Markets and Institutions in Developing Countries: Lessons for Policy Analysis from Practice and Modern Theory", World Development, Vol. 14, pp. 1253–1267, 1986

·        A. Braverman, "Consumer Search and Alternative Market Equilibria", Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 47, pp. 487–502, 1980

·        A. Braverman and T.N. Srinivasan, "Credit and Sharecropping in Agrarian Societies", Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 9, pp. 289–312, 1981

·        K. Brooks, J.L. Guasch, A. Braverman and C. Csaki, "The Transition to Post-Collectivist Agriculture in Eastern Europe and the USSR:  Dilemmas and Strategies", Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 149–61, 1991

·        A. Braverman, N. Hassid and S. Drori, "Solving the Water Problem of the Middle East", in G.H. Peters (ed.) Agricultural Competitiveness:  Market Forces And Policy Choice, pp. 496–508, Dartmouth University Press 1995

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Telefe Rosario (call sign LT 84 TV) is an Argentine open television channel affiliated with Telefe that broadcasts from the city of Rosario, province of Santa Fe. The channel can be seen in Greater Rosario and in the north of the province of Buenos Aires. It is operated by Paramount Global through Telefe Group.

History

Channel 5 started its broadcasts on November 18, 1964. It was the first locally operated TV station in the city, after a repeater of public Canal 7 operating on channel 8 and seven months before LT 83 channel 3 came to air. In the beginning, the station had a small transmitter capable of broadcasting with just 200 watts. The first newscast of the station was Noticinco. Other early shows included Demos una Mano ("Let's Help") and Tertulia Hogareña ("Home Theater"). It also broadcast a wide array of children's shows, such as Capitán Kapote and Esperando a Papá ("Waiting for Daddy"), and American imports such as Bonanza, Combat! and The Fugitive.

In 1989, LT 84 became one of the founding members of Televisión Federal (Telefe), resulting in higher quality local programs.

In 2007, Canal Cinco's tower collapsed in a storm that also took down its competitor on channel 3: the next day, channel 5 was back and operating at 50% power. Three years later, both stations moved to the site already used by TV Pública to broadcast to Rosario.

Programming
Canal Cinco offers a variety of local programs, such as local newscasts branded as Telefe Noticias, as well as locally produced programs with a regional focus, agricultural shows such as Tiempo de campo, and sports talk programs such as Fútbol sin trampas. Since 1994, the channel offers a daily mini-program called Rosario, Patrimonio de Todos ("Rosario, People's Heritage"). The show offers a retrospective to the city's history and its importance in the building of Argentina.

Digital television
Canal Cinco was the first Telefe station in interior Argentina to broadcast in HD full-time, doing so on July 23, 2014. Test transmissions began in October 2012 with a local event, which aired both on broadcast in HD and on cable.

Repeaters
Channel 13 (Venado Tuerto)
Channel 4 (Rufino)
Channel 57 (Pergamino, Buenos Aires)
Channel 68 (El Trébol)

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Mary Russell Mitford (16 December 1787 – 10 January 1855) was an English author and dramatist. She was born at Alresford in Hampshire. She is best known for Our Village, a series of sketches of village scenes and vividly drawn characters based upon her life in Three Mile Cross near Reading in Berkshire.

Childhood
She was the only daughter of George Mitford (or Midford), who apparently trained as a medical doctor, and Mary Russell, a descendant of the aristocratic Russell family. She grew up near Jane Austen and was an acquaintance of hers when young. At ten years old in 1797, young Mary Russell Mitford won her father a lottery ticket worth £20,000, but by the 1810s the small family suffered financial difficulties. In the 1800s and 1810s they lived in large properties in Reading and then Grazeley (in Sulhamstead Abbots parish), but, when the money was all gone after 1819, they lived on a small remnant of the doctor's lost fortune and the proceeds of his daughter's literary career. He is thought to have inspired Mary with the keen delight in incongruities, the lively sympathy, self-willed vigorous individuality, and tolerance which inspire so many of her sketches of character. She cared for her mother and father until their deaths and supported them and herself by proceeds from her writing.

From age 10 to 15 she attended a school in Hans Place, Knightsbridge, London, the successor to Reading Abbey Girls' School, which Austen had attended a few years earlier. Her father engaged Frances Arabella Rowden, formerly governess to the family of Frederick Ponsonby, 3rd Earl of Bessborough, to give her extra tuition. Rowden was not only a published poet, but according to Mitford, "she had a knack of making poetesses of her pupils". Rowden took Mitford to Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, especially to plays featuring John Kemble, and entranced her with the life of the theatre.

Works
Mitford's youthful ambition had been to be the greatest English poetess, and her first publications were poems in the manner of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Walter Scott (Miscellaneous Verses, 1810, reviewed by Scott in the Quarterly; Christina, the Maid of the South Seas, a metrical tale based on the first news of discovery of the last surviving mutineer of the H. M. S. Bounty and a generation of British-Tahitian children on Pitcairn Island in 1811; and Blanche, part of a projected series of "Narrative Poems on the Female Character", in 1813). Her play Julian was produced at Covent Garden, with William Charles Macready in the title role, in 1823; Foscari at Covent Garden, with Charles Kemble as the hero, in 1826; while Rienzi, 1828, the best of her plays, ran for 34 performances, and Mitford's friend, Thomas Noon Talfourd, supposed that its popularity detracted from the success of his own play, Ion. Charles the First was refused a licence by the Lord Chamberlain, but was played at the Surrey Theatre in 1834.

The prose, to which she was driven by the need to earn a living, was the most successful and financially rewarding of her literary productions. The first series of Our Village sketches appeared in book form in 1824 (having first appeared in The Lady's Magazine five years previously), a second in 1826, a third in 1828, a fourth in 1830, a fifth in 1832. They were reprinted several times. Belford Regis, another series of literary sketches in which the neighbourhood and society of Reading were idealised, was published in 1835. Her description of village cricket in Our Village has been called "the first major prose on the game".

Her Recollections of a Literary Life (1852) is a series of causeries about her favourite books. Her talk was said by her friends, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Hengist Horne, to have been even more amusing than her books, and five volumes of her Life and Letters, published in 1870 and 1872, show her to have been a delightful letter-writer. The many collections available of her letters provide especially useful commentary and criticism of her Romantic and Victorian literary contemporaries.

Reception
Mitford was a prolific and successful writer, though the quality of her prose has elicited mixed opinions. In his introduction to a 1997 reprint of selections from Our Village, Ronald Blythe stated that "it is hard to know what to praise most, her style or her spirit. Both rise to heights rarely found either in the women's journalism of her day or in a woman who by every law of the time should have been crushed by adversity." On the other hand, Tom Fort, writing in 2017, took the view that "for a reader of today she is rather hard going ... She is, I'm sorry to say, trite, sentimental, long-winded, short-sighted, arch, chatty and twee."

Esther Meynell's 1939 novel English Spinster: a portrait is a fictional treatment of the life of Mary Russell Mitford.

Bibliography
 1810: Miscellaneous Poems
 1811: Christina, the Maid of the South Seas (poetry)
 1812: Watlington Hill
 1812: Blanch of Castile
 1813: Narrative Poems on the Female Character
 1823: Julian: A tragedy (play)
 1824: Our Village, Volume 1 (Volume 2 1826; Volume 3, 1828; Volume 4, 1830; Volume 5, 1832)
 1826: Foscari: A tragedy (play)
 1827: Dramatic Scenes, Sonnets, and other Poems
 1828: Rienzi: A tragedy in five acts (play)
 1830: Editor, Stories of American Life, by American Writers, Volume 2
 1831: Mary Queen of Scots
 1831: American Stories for Little Boys and Girls (Editor)
 1832: Tales for Young People (Editor)
 1832: Lights and Shadows of American life (Editor)
 1834: Charles the First: An historical tragedy (play)
 1835: Sadak and Kalascado
 1835: Belford Regis; or, Sketches of a Country Town (in three volumes)
 1837: Country Stories
 1852: Recollections of a Literary Life, or Books, Places and People (three volumes)
 1854: Atherton, and Other Tales (three volumes)
 1854: Dramatic Works

Later life and death
Mitford met Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1836, and their acquaintance ripened into a warm friendship.

The strain of poverty told on Mitford's work, for although her books sold at high prices, her income did not keep pace with her father's extravagances. In 1837, however, she received a civil list pension, and five years later, on 11 December 1842, her father died. A subscription was raised to pay his debts, and the surplus increased Mary's income.

In 1851 she moved from Three Mile Cross to a cottage in Swallowfield, three miles away, where she remained for the rest of her life. She died there on 10 January 1855, after being injured in a carriage accident the previous December. She is buried in the churchyard.

References

Literature

 The Life of Mary Russell Mitford, related in a Selection from her Letters, 3 vols (1870 Bentley).
 Henry Fothergill Chorley (Ed.), Letters of Mary Russell Mitford (1872).
 A.G.K. L'Estrange (Ed.), The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents, 2 vols (1882 Hurst & Blackett).
 William J. Roberts, (The Life and Friendships of) Mary Russell Mitford: The Tragedy of a Blue Stocking (Andrew Melrose, London 1913). (Modern publishing: Kessinger 2007, )
 M. Constance Hill, Mary Russell Mitford and Her Surroundings (Bodley Head, London 1920).
 Marjorie Astin, Mary Russell Mitford – Her Circle and Her Books (Noel Douglas, London 1930).
 James E. Agate, Mary Russell Mitford (1940).
 Vera G. Watson, Mary Russell Mitford (Evans Brothers, 1949).
 Caroline Mary Duncan-Jones, Miss Mitford and Mr. Harness. Records of a Friendship. (S.P.C.K./Talbot Press, London 1955).
 W.A. Coles, 'Mary Russell Mitford: the inauguration of a literary career', Journal of the John Rylands Library 40 (1957), 33–46.
 Pamela Horn (Ed.), Life in a Country Town: Reading and Mary Russell Mitford (1787–1855) (Beacon Publications, Sutton Courtenay 1984).
 Catherine Addison, 'Gender and Genre in Mary Russell Mitford's Christina,' English Studies in Africa 41, Part 2 (1998), 1–21.
 Diego Saglia, 'Public and Private in Women's Romantic Poetry: Spaces, Gender, Genre in Mary Russell Mitford's Blanch,' Women's Writing 5.3 (1998), 405–19.
 Martin Garrett, 'Mary Russell Mitford', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004.
 Diego Saglia, 'Mediterranean Unrest: 1820s Verse Tragedies and Revolutions in the South,' Romanticism 11.1 (2005) 99–113.
 Alison Booth, 'Revisiting the Homes and Haunts of Mary Russell Mitford', Nineteenth Century Contexts, 30 Part 1 (2008), 39–65.
 Cecilia Pietropoli, 'The Story of the Foscaris, a Drama for Two Playwrights: Mary Mitford and Lord Byron,' in The Language of Performance in British Romanticism (Peter Lang, New York, 2008), 115–26.
 Elisa Beshero-Bondar, 'Romancing the Pacific Isles Before Byron: Music, Sex, and Death in Mitford's Christina,' ELH 76.2 (Summer 2009) 277–308.

External links
Digital Mitford: The Mary Russell Mitford Archive This project is producing new digital editions of Mary Russell Mitford's correspondence and literary works, holds bibliographical listing of Mitford's writings, and lists locations of her manuscripts.

Royal Berkshire History: Mary Russell Mitford
Bibliographical listing of commentaries

Mary Russell Mitford Collection. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

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The The Palace Perogalli also known as Palazzo Perogalli  is a residential building designed in 1952 by Carlo Perogalli and Attilio Mariani in Viale Beatrice d'Este 26, in the historic center of Milan inside the Quadronno District, which collects the open-air masterpieces of numerous archistars of the fifties.

The Palace offers a view of via Anelli and Palazzo Galmanini Portaluppi at the corner of Via Anelli, considered the most important design masterpiece in the area.

Description
Carlo Perogalli and Attilio Mariani also built the adjacent design building in Viale Beatrice d'Este 24 known as The Abstract House.

The Palazzo is like the adjacent building, in support, of La Casa Astratta, an expression of the theories of the MAC-Movimento d'Arte Concreta with a facade that recalls "a rhythmic score based on the alternation of brown and Havana clinker panels, separated from each other by the empty windows and the glossy white of the roller shutter boxes."

Palazzo Perogalli was built a few years after the Abstract House, in which the main element this time is the color which, on the side façade, gives a dynamic effect and breaks the static nature of the wall box through staggered clinker panels of different sizes and alternating colors, orange and brown.

The Palazzo is the first example of Clinker cladding, which will later become one of the "means of expression most used by the Milanese design culture" and will be the inspiration for works by Gio Ponti, Caccia Dominioni, Franco Albini, and Ignazio Gardella "who reflect on the theme of architectural skin composed of flakes of the most varied shapes and shades of color".

Style
This characterization of color is the main element of the building. "So: the color yes, but with an architectural function, which is to follow the exact path. In this house a fine and minute texture, marked, with a well-known but well-used motif, by the uprights which connect the balconies, is accompanied by a chessboard of two-tone Clinker panels, alternately the same, between these two colors the emptyness of the display case and the white of the lid of the box act as a separation: a pleasant effect certainly". The side elevation, on the other hand, is clad with litho-ceramic chess patterns alternating between tan and brown colors.

History
• Design: 1951-1952
• Execution: 1952
• reference date: 1951 - 1952

References

Bibliography
 Archivio Carlo Perogalli, Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Design
 Archivio Civico di Milano
 Fondo Attilio Mariani, Milano
 Edilizia moderna, Milano 1953, n. 51, dicembre, pp. 63–66
 Pica A., Architettura moderna in Milano. Guida, Milano 1964
 MAC e dintorni, Sondrio 1997
 Biraghi M., Lo Ricco G., Micheli S. (a cura di), Guida all'architettura di Milano 1954-2014, Milano 2013, pp. 14–15

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Aubrey Morgan O'Day (born February 11, 1984) is an American singer and reality television personality, best known for being a member of the girl group Danity Kane. Following discord among Danity Kane and with her mentor at the time, P. Diddy, O'Day was fired from the group in 2008, but reunited with them in 2013 before a second disbandment. Danity Kane reunited in 2018 as a trio. She has also performed in the duo Dumblonde with former Danity Kane bandmate Shannon Bex since 2015.

O'Day has modeled for magazines such as Blender and Playboy, and performed on Broadway in Hairspray. In 2011, she signed a solo record deal with SRC/Universal Motown Records, and released her debut EP Between Two Evils in 2013.

Additionally, O'Day has made appearances on reality television shows, including the fifth season of Celebrity Apprentice, Famously Single, Ex on the Beach, and the British Celebrity Big Brother 18.

Early life
O'Day began performing at age five. "I lived on the stage, and even at six, slept behind the seats of the theatre," she stated in an interview. According to her mother, when O'Day was four, she was at a performance of The Nutcracker and started to cry. Her mother asked her what was wrong and O'Day replied, "I'm sad that I'm sitting here and not up on stage." O'Day recalls that moment as the one in which she "officially" realized her love for entertainment.

O'Day played lead characters in various musical productions, including Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, Carmen in Fame, Sandy in Grease, Liesl in The Sound of Music, Tzeitel in Fiddler on the Roof, and Mimi in Rent. She also appeared in Annie. O'Day's childhood leaned heavily toward auditions and acting gigs more than school. The Notorious B.I.G., Sean "Puffy" Combs, Lauryn Hill, Janet Jackson and Christina Aguilera were her primary influences growing up.

O'Day attended La Quinta High School. She later majored in political science and drama and graduated with a degree in political science from University of California, Irvine, and is a member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority.

Career

2004–08: Making the Band 3 and Danity Kane

O'Day was discovered in 2004 on the MTV reality show Making the Band 3, founded by Sean "Diddy" Combs, and emerged as the show's breakout star. During Season 2 of Making the Band 3 while the competition was still ongoing, Blender magazine contacted O'Day to pose for their September 2005 issue. The magazine described her as the contestant "who bared calm resolve and tanned hip bones in beating out almost 10,000 girls for the chance at singing and strutting in a P. Diddy–steered girl group". O'Day expressed anxiety about competing to be in the group. "I've been in the 'cut' situation several times," she stated. "It's hard to stand in a room and know that the dream I want is all in [Combs's] hands."

After seeing her dance, Combs was convinced that O'Day had "Black in her family" and further expressed this sentiment after watching her sing a version of "At Last" at a club during Season 1 of the show. This, along with what viewers saw as natural charisma, helped endear her to become a consistent favorite among judges and fans. Former Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync manager Johnny Wright, who served as one of the judges on the show, stated from her first audition in Los Angeles they knew that she was "a star".

O'Day was eventually chosen to be in the group, and was the first member included. The band became known as Danity Kane, and their first album debuted on August 22, 2006, at #1 on the Billboard 200 charts. The group was the opening act for Christina Aguilera on the U.S. leg of her Back to Basics Tour with the Pussycat Dolls.

O'Day's fame and physical features found appealing by magazines helped her broaden her career beyond the group. In addition to other musical projects, she posed for several "sexy" magazine spreads. On the August 28, 2008, episode of Making the Band, due to being consistently frustrated with O'Day's "oversexed" new image, Combs called O'Day "one of the worst dancers" in Danity Kane. He told O'Day that she no longer looked like the girl he signed and that she used to be one of the best. Combs bluntly accused O'Day of trying to expand her fame at the expense of the entire group, and that she liked flaunting her breasts and wearing big hair, referring to an incident where she had rubbed her cleavage on the arm of a television host. He asked himself why he was keeping O'Day in the group.

On the October 7, 2008, episode of Making the Band, after continued debate with O'Day about the well-being of the group, Combs declared O'Day no longer a member of Danity Kane. An official announcement, however, had not been made from Bad Boy Records. When asked by Boston Herald whether she was still in the group, O'Day was reluctant to answer and stated, "I can't comment on anything, I'm sorry."

Speculation arose that Combs firing O'Day was a ratings ploy and that he had no intention of truly dismissing her. When discussing her career, O'Day would still refer to herself as a "member of a girl band" and "the official party girl of Danity Kane". On the October 14, 2008, episode of Making the Band, however, O'Day's departure from the group was confirmed, as well as bandmate and then-best friend D. Woods. In the live section of the episode, Combs explained that the reason he let O'Day go was that she was not the same person he signed, that the fame had changed her. When O'Day came on to reply, she stated: "I would rather be hated every damn day of my life for being real than loved for being something I'm not." In a backstage interview before the finale, she said:Tonight is a representation of the end of a chapter in my life; it's not the end of the book. I will do everything possible to make my mark on this industry, and Danity Kane and [Combs] provided me with this amazing opportunity to go out and really touch people's hearts. I think the way that we were able to inspire people was something that I will never be able to achieve in that way again in my life.

MTV News gauged fan reactions to the dismissals of O'Day and Woods. Fans left impassioned, long and detailed comments on the MTV News site about their discontent regarding the group's breakup. The 2009 season of Making the Band was expected to include new members auditioning as "replacements" for O'Day and Woods in Danity Kane, but instead showed the official end of the group. The complete breakup of the group was originally thought to be the result of O'Day and Woods, along with group member Shannon Bex, declining the offer to return to the series and the group. This was later argued by O'Day, who stated that while she was unsure if Woods was asked back, she herself was not asked to return. O'Day said that if offered, she would have returned and is not against returning. She was officially released from her Bad Boy Records contract by Combs in the April 16, 2009, episode of Making the Band.

On the April 23, 2009, finale of the show, O'Day returned with three former members of the group to clear up any misconceptions about the group's breakup. She said that she has forgiven being released from the group, and people who blamed her for the group's demise. Combs said that if he ever puts the group back together, O'Day and the group's other four members would be returning as Danity Kane.

2008–12: Solo career and return to reality television
O'Day began the role of Amber Von Tussle in the Broadway musical Hairspray on July 18, 2008. She appeared in the 2009 comedy American High School costarring Nikki Ziering, and also joined the cast of Jerry Mitchell's musical Peepshow in the role of "Peep Diva" at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada from September 2009 to late December 2009. Additionally, O'Day was featured on the Donnie Wahlberg single "I Got It". She recorded a remastered version of Sharam's remix hit "Party All the Time" and released a track titled "Never Fallin".

On the April 23, 2009, finale of Making the Band, O'Day revealed that she would have her own reality television show for which she would be filming in the spring of 2010. The show entitled All About Aubrey premiered on March 7, 2011, on the Oxygen Network. O'Day's debut single, the Adonis-produced "Automatic" was released on April 12, 2011 & has sold 50,000 copies to date hitting the top 20 on iTunes pop charts in less than 2 hours. O'Day recorded over 50 songs for her debut album on SRC/Universal Motown, which was supposed to come out in late 2012.

O'Day was also fired from NBC's The Celebrity Apprentice 5, which premiered on February 19, 2012. Before being fired, O'Day received a significant amount of criticism for her conduct while competing on the show, being described as "narcissistic, self-centered, evil, and vicious" by the media and viewers of the show, and as "transparent" by Trump's judges. It eventually caused Arsenio Hall to lash out on her in the show's boardroom segment, berating her with the unanimous support of his team, particularly Clay Aiken. This left O'Day in tears and contemplating quitting the show before eventually being fired by Trump. O'Day ultimately decided not to quit, but was fired shortly thereafter.  Although she accepted an apology from Hall, she has expressed her dislike of him in multiple confessionals, labeling him and Aiken as "bullies". However, the contestants praised her creativity and business skills, and she ended up finishing in 3rd place, being the last female contestant standing. The reason for her firing was that she was too young and inexperienced, and also was seen as transparent by John Rich and Marlee Matlin, who served as Trump's viceroys.

On April 23, 2012, a new self-released single "Wrecking Ball", co-written and co-produced by American Idol alumni Pia Toscano was released on iTunes and sold 3,000 downloads in the first week. She shot a video for the track with music director Rage in June 2012 and was released on September 26, 2012, on Vevo.

2012–present: Between Two Evils, Danity Kane reunion, and Dumblonde
In 2012, O'Day announced she would be recording her debut solo EP.  On December 31, 2012, she performed previously released material, as well as three new songs from her EP Between Two Evils, "Love Me When You Leave", "Let Me Lay" and  "Before I Drown" in Las Vegas. In June 2013, O'Day performed her singles "Automatic" and "Before I Drown" on The CW's Oh Sit! and also performed at Chicago's Pride Fest. "Between Two Evils" was released on iTunes on August 13, 2013, after topping the iTunes US Dance Chart on pre-order sales alone, and reaching #5 on the iTunes US Pop Chart.

In mid-2013, there were rumors that Danity Kane would be reuniting. On August 25, 2013, Danity Kane appeared at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards (without D. Woods, who did not return to the group), announcing they were back together. They soon split again, and O'Day and Shannon Bex announced the release of the band's third and final album, "DK3".

In early 2015, choosing to continue making music together, O'Day and Bex announced their duo music project, Dumblonde with the same manager as the Danity Kane band, Johnny Wright. In August 2016, she returned to reality television by taking part in the eighteenth series of the British show Celebrity Big Brother, where she sailed straight through to the finals, after never facing the public vote and finished in fifth place.

On July 7, 2021, O'Day released a single, "Body Love High".

Other work

In 2008, O'Day ranked #86 on Maxim's Hot 100 list, #81 on Blender's 100 Hottest People list, and posed for the magazines. She walked the catwalk at Heatherette's Fall 2007 runway show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week held on February 6, and recorded the song "Do Yo Dance" with R&B singer Cupid which was the released as a single from Cupid's album Time for a Change.

In January 2008, O'Day briefly became the face of Famous Stars and Straps. In August 2008, she  made a cameo appearance in Estelle's music video for "Pretty Please". Further utilizing her success, she started her own clothing line called Heart on My Sleeve, which features T-shirts and accessories available only online. She posed topless in the November 2008 issue of men's magazine Complex. The publication stated, "With all due respect to the other girls in Danity Kane, it's easy to see why [Combs] built his group around Aubrey O'Day. Simply put, Aubrey is that chick: the stunner who attracts paparazzi and Broadway producers alike, and the talent least likely to fall into post-reality-show abyss." The magazine additionally commented on the animosity O'Day receives from several outlets, such as blog sites, as well as from message board fans, who have come to despise the attention she attracts from the media and the current image she has crafted of herself.

In late 2008, O'Day made a guest appearance on the reality show 50 Cent: The Money and the Power. She later agreed to be the covergirl for Playboy for the March 2009 issue. Additionally, she has been featured on the covers of Jadore, Image, Palm Springs Life, King, Right On!, Dub and Envy. She has done features for GQ, In Touch Weekly and Us Weekly. In 2013, she was a guest judge for episode eight in season five of RuPaul's Drag Race. In 2016, she was a contestant on Celebrity Big Brother UK Season 18.

Personal life and activism
While attending University of California Irvine, O'Day spent a semester at sea. She worked with service organizations while touring in different countries, as well as refugee centers, orphanages, and mostly with children with AIDS. She volunteered for The Pink Project (a charity photobook supporting RAINN and the Los Angeles Breast Cancer Alliance), and helped victims of the Hurricane Katrina devastation. O'Day soon created her own organization, called F*A*N (Fighting Aids Now). The charity's goal is to give therapy and art to children in hospitals. During the 2008 presidential election campaign in the United States, O'Day supported Barack Obama for President. She is also a supporter of LGBT rights and chose GLSEN as her charity for Celebrity Apprentice.

On The Wendy Williams Show on August 12, 2008, O'Day stated that she previously dated DJ Cassidy. She dispelled rumors of ever having plastic surgery or dating boss Sean Combs. In an August 2008 interview with Broadway.com, she said she was increasingly irritated with people pigeonholing her sexuality, stating that she looks for "incredible passion and honest love" and not at gender. When questioned by Us Weekly regarding rumors that she is a lesbian, O'Day did not confirm nor deny the speculation about her sexuality, and once again said that she could not say "one way or another" what her sexual orientation is at this point in her life. In 2019, she came out as sapiosexual. In 2009, while on the show Chelsea Lately, when asked about being bisexual, she replied, "Generally, I don't like to label myself... I want to find someone I'm passionate about, and I don't want to limit myself to one segment of the population." In 2019, O'Day discussed her 2011–2012 relationship with the then-married Donald Trump Jr., saying that they thought of themselves as soulmates at the time.

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The Lakers–Suns rivalry is a National Basketball Association (NBA) rivalry between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Phoenix Suns. The rivalry began as early as the 1969–70 season when the Lakers and Suns met against each other in the first round of the 1970 NBA playoffs, with peaks being had throughout the 1980's, early 1990's, and 2000's. While the Lakers won every playoff series from their 3–1 series comeback in 1970 until 1989, the Suns have won the vast majority of playoff series matchups since 1990, winning 5 of the last 7 playoffs series since then, including a reverse series sweep against the Lakers in 1993 and a 3–1 comeback of their own in 2006. While the rivalry cooled off during the 2010's due to poor teams and management by both squads throughout that decade, renewed interest in the rivalry sparked into the 2020's, with both teams returning to NBA Finals contention early in the decade, as well as both the Lakers and Suns having notable superstars joining them in LeBron James and Kevin Durant respectively and the Suns hiring former Lakers coach Frank Vogel in 2023.  With 13 head-to-head playoff meetings, this is the most frequently played playoff matchup in the history of the Western Conference.

Background
The Lakers were founded in 1947 for the National Basketball League (a predecessor of the NBA) after the Detroit Gems folded their organization and sold off their assets (which mainly consisted of equipment at the time) to Bob Berger and Morris Chalfen to create the Minneapolis Lakers in Minneapolis, Minnesota (Minnesota's nickname is "The Land of 10,000 Lakes"). Under their first few seasons of existence, the Lakers saw immediate success as a franchise, winning an NBL championship, a BAA championship, and four NBA championships (including the first championship under the NBA name while under the Central Division and a three-peat from 1952 to 1954 under the Western Division) during six of their seven years in Minneapolis, primarily winning with center George Mikan being on their team. The combination of championships made the Lakers arguably the first dynasty in professional basketball history. However, a combination of less than stellar results after Mikan's multiple departures from the team, poor attendance, and a look at how the Brooklyn Dodgers successfully transitioned into the Los Angeles Dodgers led to the Lakers moving from Minneapolis to Los Angeles in 1960, keeping the team name despite a lack of natural lakes in the area. By the end of the 1960's, the Lakers created arguably one of the first superteams in the NBA with Wilt Chamberlain joining a roster that also included star players Elgin Baylor and Jerry West.

The Suns, meanwhile, were founded in the NBA in 1968 alongside the Milwaukee Bucks as one of two expansion teams that year. The Phoenix team was named the Suns above over 28,000 possible options that were listed in their "name the team" contest due to the city of Phoenix, Arizona's nickname of "Valley of the Sun". During the 1968 NBA expansion draft, the Suns selected Gail Goodrich, John Wetzel, and Dennis Hamilton from the Lakers in the expansion draft, though only Goodrich and Wetzel ultimately played for the Suns. The Suns also acquired a Lakers draft pick in 1968 named Eddie Biedenbach during free agency. By contrast, the Suns tied with the Bucks for the worst record of their inaugural season with a 16–66 record, with the Lakers winning their first six straight games against the Suns that season. In the following season, the Suns lost a coin flip to acquire Lew Alcindor (later named Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) in the 1969 NBA draft (which is considered a key point where fans considered there to be a curse on the franchise), though they did acquire forward Connie Hawkins in free agency to help improve their fortunes a bit early on. In addition to the geographical location similarities, the rivalry between the Suns and the Lakers has been a key point for Arizona-based professional sports teams to have heated rivalries against other Los Angeles-based professional sports teams throughout the years.

Early history (1968–1989)
While the Phoenix Suns first began their existence in 1968, their rivalry with the Lakers truly began as early as the 1969–1970 season after the Suns got their first regular season win against the Lakers on November 7, 1969. During that season, the Suns won their regular season against the Lakers 4–3 (including an overtime win on February 7, 1970 for their first competitive match to go to overtime). However, they also faced some different struggles during that season, including a point where head coach Johnny Kerr was replaced by general manager Jerry Colangelo exiting 1969 and entering 1970. Despite ending the season with a 39–43 record and barely qualifying as a No. 4 seed for their first playoff appearance in 1970 after losing their tiebreaker to the Chicago Bulls, their opponent in what was known as the Western Division Semi-finals was the No. 2 seeded Lakers, who finished their season at 46–36 in their division that season behind the Atlanta Hawks. After losing the first game in Los Angeles, the Suns managed to surprise the Lakers in the next three games afterward through key performances by Hawkins, Goodrich, and Paul Silas, with a chance to complete the upset the day after finishing Game 4. However, both Wilt Chamberlain and Jerry West ramped up their quality of play throughout the rest of the series and completed the second ever 3–1 series comeback in NBA history (with the first 3–1 series comeback happening in 1968 by the Boston Celtics against the Philadelphia 76ers). After the Lakers lost the 1970 NBA Finals to the New York Knicks, the Western Division turned into the Western Conference due to greater expansion in the NBA, with the Lakers joining the Pacific Division since then and the Suns briefly joining the Midwest Division before joining the Lakers in the Pacific Division as of 1972.

Throughout the rest of the 1970's, the Lakers and Suns would not meet each other in the playoffs. However, both them were able to have competitive success during the decade, with the Lakers winning the 1972 NBA Finals in a rematch against the Knicks while holding what was considered at the time to be the best record ever at 69–13 and the Suns reaching the 1976 NBA Finals as unexpected underdogs against the Boston Celtics with a more pedestrian 42–40 record. They would also have varying failures involved under what can be considered the biggest time of parity in NBA history, with the Suns not returning to the playoffs until 1976 through coach John MacLeod (with the 1971–72 Suns notably having the best record to not make it to the playoffs at 49–33) and the Lakers failing to make it to the playoffs during the mid-1970's, even during the season they acquired Kareem Abdul-Jabbar from the Bucks. Both the Lakers and Suns also had competitive games against each other during that decade despite not meeting each other in the playoffs after 1970. The end of the 1970's decade for the Lakers is most notable for two important moments: the selling of the Lakers from Jack Kent Cooke to Jerry Buss and the acquisition of the 1979 NBA draft's No. 1 pick, Magic Johnson.

The 1980's decade is most notable for it being the era of the Showtime Lakers primarily led by Magic and Kareem on offense and Michael Cooper on the defensive end. With those three players being their primary players that stayed throughout the most important years of the decade alongside other important players that joined them throughout the decade (including another No. 1 pick in James Worthy), the Lakers both won 5 NBA Finals championships throughout that decade (one of them being coached by Paul Westhead after firing coach Jack McKinney due to a near-fatal head injury and the rest being coached by former player Pat Riley after firing Westhead) and were the most dominant Western Conference team of the 1980's decade. It was also the most consistent time that both teams met against each other in the playoffs, as the Suns met the Lakers four out of six times throughout the early 1980's due to acquisitions of players like Walter Davis, Truck Robinson, Dennis Johnson, and Larry Nance early on in that period of time. However, regardless of which round the Suns played the Lakers in, the Lakers would always dominate the Suns during that period, with only the 1984 Western Conference Finals being the only time the Suns got more than one win over the Lakers in that decade. The late 1980's were one of the worst periods for the Suns, however, due to not just key players like Paul Westphal and Alvan Adams reaching retirement and coach John MacLeod no longer making a viable difference for the team, but also a period of players like Walter Davis taking illicit drugs and damaging the team's reputation in the process and the sudden death of center Nick Vanos in the Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crash. The sudden shift into being one of the worst teams led to the Suns making more bold, daring choices near the end of the decade by not just having general manager Jerry Colangelo become the new owner of the team (which helped save the Suns from potentially moving elsewhere and prematurely ending their rivalry by extension), but also led to them making a bold trade with Larry Nance, Mike Sanders, and their 1988 first round pick being traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers for Kevin Johnson, Mark West, Tyrone Corbin, and multiple draft picks (one of which being fan favorite Dan Majerle) during the 1987–88 season, as well as fire former player turned coach John Wetzel for a return of Cotton Fitzsimmons coaching them (after previously doing so in the early 1970's) and sign Tom Chambers as the first ever unrestricted free agent during the following season. Those moves led to an immediate payoff for one of the biggest improvements from one season to the next for a franchise, though they still failed to defeat the Lakers in the playoffs by the end of the decade, being swept 4–0 in part due to their inexperience when compared to how the Showtime Lakers performed.

The 1990's and Early 2000's
By the start of the 1990's, the Lakers were nearing the end of their Showtime era of basketball with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar retiring, most of their other key players from that decade either retiring or leaving the Lakers (including Kurt Rambis later joining the Suns in the 1989–90 season), and the rest of their key players getting older and not keeping up with their system like they used to. Despite the end coming closer, the Lakers still managed to get the best record in the NBA at 63–19, while the Suns were getting closer to their caliber with a third place finish in the Western Conference and second place finish in the Pacific Division. This helped culminate into a rematch of the 1989 Western Conference Finals in the semi-final round in 1990, as the Suns hoped to overcome their personal demons during that series (Cotton Fitzsimmons had a 0–37 record against the Lakers when coaching in the Great Western Forum at the time and the Suns not only hadn't won a playoff series yet to the Lakers, but they also lost 21 straight games while in The Forum dating back to 1984). The Suns managed to take their first step forward in their playoff rivalry with the Lakers by stealing Game 1 from the Lakers at the Great Western Forum with great performances by Tom Chambers, Mark West, and Kevin Johnson being key leaders in their 104–102 win. While the Lakers delivered a crushing blow to the Suns in Game 2 to even the series up, having home court advantage the rest of the way led to the Suns getting a 3–1 series lead over the Lakers at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum, with a chance to defeat the Lakers in the playoffs for the first time ever after failing to do so back in 1970. However, Magic Johnson and the Lakers weren't going to let them win the series that easily, as they commanded a 15-point lead early in Game 5 with Magic scoring a game-high 43 points as their de facto team leader. However, the Suns' own Johnson in Kevin Johnson had a comparable performance of his own with 37 points and 8 assists, with Mark West's 16 rebounds helping the Suns pull off a 106–103 upset win to defeat the Lakers for the first time ever in the playoffs. While the Suns ultimately failed to reach the NBA Finals that year, players like Tom Chambers and Eddie Johnson felt like they had truly made it with the series. After that series, the Lakers fired Pat Riley and replaced him with Mike Dunleavy Sr. and left behind Michael Cooper to have one last shot at a championship with the Showtime Lakers before failing to defeat the Chicago Bulls (led by Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen with Phil Jackson coaching them) and leaving behind the Showtime era for good with the unexpected announcement of Magic Johnson having HIV and subsequently retiring by force of fear afterward.

After the Suns failed to return to the conference finals the following two seasons afterward, they decided they needed a big-time splash in their name with a trade. In their first season moving out of the Veterans Memorial Coliseum and into America West Arena (now known as the Footprint Center), Phoenix made the bold move to trade All-Star guard Jeff Hornacek and forwards Andrew Lang and Tim Perry to the Philadelphia 76ers for a superstar caliber power forward named Charles Barkley. With Barkley on the team alongside champion guard Danny Ainge and rookies Richard Dumas and Oliver Miller, the Suns saw immediate results with what was their best season yet at the time with a 62–20 regular season record for the best record in the NBA for the 1992–93 season, with Barkley being the Suns' first ever MVP winner. By contrast, the Lakers were trying to stay competitive without Magic Johnson around, but were severely reeling without his presence to the point where they fired Mike Dunleavy Sr. and replaced him with Randy Pfund after their first season without Magic. At the end of Pfund's first season with the Lakers, they had their worst season since the 1974–75 season, though they still barely qualified for the 1993 NBA playoffs despite their 39–43 record. While the Lakers were expected to have trouble with the Suns in the first round for a change of pace, the Lakers (now being led by James Worthy, A.C. Green, and Vlade Divac alongside surprise performances by Sedale Threatt) managed to stun the city of Phoenix by stealing the first two games of the series against the Suns at America West Arena, being one win away from being the first No. 8 seed to upset a No. 1 seed in the NBA. After the end of Game 2, coach Westphal made a bold guarantee during the postgame Q&A to the media.

Despite initial critiques from the media, Barkley showed his support for Westphal there while noting the toughness of the situation at hand. This led to Barkley and the Suns bouncing back to win a hard fought Game 3 and having a much easier Game 4 in the Great Western Forum before returning home to a decisive Game 5 back at the America West Arena. While the Suns made sure to hold the lead by the end of the third quarter, the Lakers under Worthy's leadership saw it to their best capabilities to steal not just the lead, but the series from the Suns by the end of the fourth quarter. However, a key shot late in the game by Dan Majerle led to the game going into overtime, which was where the Suns completely dominated the Lakers for good to win 112–104 and ultimately win their series 3–2, avoiding infamous history being made. This season also was the second time they reached the NBA Finals, though they would lose it to the Chicago Bulls also, this time 4–2 with a notable three-point shot by John Paxson sealing the deal there.

While the Suns couldn't return to the NBA Finals while they had Charles Barkley around due primarily to the Houston Rockets, the Lakers were able to regain Magic Johnson on their roster briefly in 1994 when he became a head coach for them in the early half of that year. Magic Johnson also returned to the Lakers as a player properly in early 1996, where he helped make the Lakers appear to be one of the top teams of the NBA once again. However, Johnson's return to the playoffs ended with a whimper as outside of a 104–94 Game 2 win, the Lakers lost 3–1 in the first round to the then-two time champion Houston Rockets. 1996 was also a very important year for both teams during the NBA draft, as the Lakers and Suns had acquired key players that became important figures within their histories that year, with the Lakers getting Kobe Bryant from the Charlotte Hornets at pick No. 13 (alongside Derek Fisher with their own pick at #24) and the Suns drafting Steve Nash at pick No. 15. The 1996–97 season was also important for moves that shifted team trajectories, with the Lakers signing center Shaquille O'Neal after feeling the Orlando Magic were ungrateful to him and the Suns trading Charles Barkley to the Houston Rockets after feeling disappointed with recent moves Phoenix made to compete, which subsequently led to the Suns trading Robert Horry (and Joe Kleine) to the Lakers for the return of Cedric Ceballos (and Rumeal Robinson) after Horry had a confrontation with new coach Danny Ainge during a game. While both teams remained playoff competitive during that time (despite the Suns losing their first 13 games in their first season without Barkley), the Lakers saw much more significant success with their new key additions to the team. With Shaq & Kobe joining the Lakers, the team improved from every one of their final seasons in the 20th century (aside from the 1998–99 lockout shortened season) to the point of being considered championship contenders the more seasons they played together, with their apex of greatness coming from the 1999–2000 season when they had a 67–15 record with Phil Jackson coaching the Lakers and Shaq being the league's MVP that season.

During that same season, the Shaq & Kobe led Lakers saw the Suns in the Western Conference Semi-finals in their first appearances of the 21st century, with Phoenix implementing what they called "Backcourt 2000" led by the duo of Shaq's former teammate Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway and Jason Kidd, as well as the brief returns of Kevin Johnson and Oliver Miller, Sixth Man of the Year Rodney Rogers, and rookie Shawn Marion. While the Suns beat one rivaling team in the San Antonio Spurs during the 2000 playoffs, they couldn't do the same with another, much bigger rivaling team in the Lakers, as their roster under Shaq's dominating presence (alongside Kobe's shooting, Brian Shaw's playmaking capabilities, and Robert Horry's all-around peskiness) led to the Lakers defeating the Suns 4–1, with Phoenix's only win that series coming in Game 4 with Clifford Robinson and Jason Kidd upsetting the Lakers in the America West Arena. This eventually led to not just the Lakers winning the 2000 NBA Finals, but getting a three-peat in the early 2000's and one of the most infamous examples of a superteam in NBA history with old superstar players Karl Malone and Gary Payton joining Shaq & Kobe in an attempt to win the 2004 NBA Finals. Meanwhile, injuries to Hardaway and domestic abuse by Kidd led to "Backcourt 2000" reaching an end by the 2001–02 season alongside the Suns' playoff streak they had since 1988, with their lowest point in the 2000's decade coming in the 2003–04 season with Stephon Marbury being traded to New York, a young Amar'e Stoudemire being injured, owner Jerry Colangelo nearly reaching his limits, and a young, inexperienced roster needing new leadership on what they needed to do for future success.

Seven Seconds or Less (2004–2010)
During the same season Jerry Colangelo sold the Phoenix Suns to longtime fan and business owner Robert Sarver, they reacquired star point guard Steve Nash from the Dallas Mavericks in free agency after previously having him from 1996 until 1998. With Nash and Quentin Richardson being added to the young roster led at the time by Marion, Stoudemire, and Joe Johnson, the Suns began what was considered the "Seven Seconds or Less" era of Phoenix Suns basketball. Their fast-paced style of basketball was considered the more modernized equivalent of the Showtime Lakers that focused on primarily getting the offense ready and prepared to score in seven seconds or less. With that style of play in mind, the Suns tied what was their best regular season record at the time of 62–20 with Steve Nash winning the MVP award in his first season back in Phoenix.

The Lakers, meanwhile, had to deal with the aftermath of their failed superteam for the 2004–05 season, with Shaq & Kobe feuding to the point where Shaq demanded a trade to the Miami Heat (which got the Lakers Lamar Odom, Caron Butler, Brian Grant, and 2006 first round pick Jordan Farmar), Gary Payton was traded to their greater longtime rivals in the Boston Celtics, Karl Malone retired from playing altogether, Derek Fisher signed a long-term deal with the Golden State Warriors, and Phil Jackson was briefly fired from coaching and was replaced by longtime Houston Rockets coach Rudy Tomjanovich. Ironically, the Suns considered signing Kobe Bryant on a major deal (around six years worth $100 million) when he was open for free agency in 2004, but the emphasis on signing Steve Nash took them out of the competition for Kobe's services. Regardless, the Lakers tried their best to make their bad situation work out with what they had at the time, to the point where they started out the season with a 24–19 record. However, Tomjanovich was forced to resign from his position after his bladder cancer diagnosis got worse after his initial hiring, which left him replaced with assistant coach Frank Hamblen taking on the interim head coach role for the rest of the season. That led to the Lakers failing to reach the playoffs for the first time since 1994 with a 34–48 record, as well as them reneging on their decision with Phil Jackson, as they brought him back to coach for a second stint.

During the following season, the Lakers saw some fair improvement with Phil Jackson's coaching return, as he alongside Kobe Bryant's great scoring prowess (including an 81-point game that season) led the Lakers to an improved 45–37 record, earning them the No. 7 seed. However, the Suns still led the Pacific Division despite the frugal departures of Joe Johnson and Quentin Richardson and the season-long injury to Amar'e Stoudemire due to Steve Nash's growing leadership as a player combined with new additions like Boris Diaw (who became the Most Improved Player of the Year that season), Raja Bell, and both Kurt and Tim Thomas making sure the team didn't miss a beat along the way. With Phoenix winning the Pacific Division for the second season in a row and Steve Nash winning his second MVP in a row, this gave the Lakers ample motivation early on in the series. After losing Game 1 due to Tim Thomas' offense and Steve Nash's playmaking capabilities, Kobe Bryant turned up his playing capabilities to first win Game 2 with his overall play and then be the primary playmaker for players like Smush Parker and Lamar Odom to take Game 3 in the Staples Center (now Crypto.com Arena). For Game 4, while Lamar Odom was the leading scorer and former No. 1 pick Kwame Brown was the leading rebounder, it was Bryant that ultimately won the Lakers Game 4 in overtime with a buzzer-beating two-pointer to win 99–98 and take the series 3–1, thus giving the Lakers a second chance at an upset over the Suns. However, just when it felt like the Lakers would pull off the upset in the first round this time around, the Suns managed to fight back first by having Boris Diaw record a near-triple-double and then by Raja Bell pulling a clothesline move on Kobe that resulted in Bell being ejected for Game 5 and suspended for Game 6, but also sending a message that they weren't going down that easily with a 114–97 win. While the Suns entered the Staples Center undermanned for Game 6, their starting line-up led by Nash & Shawn Marion made sure to keep them competitive throughout the entire game. However, it was a buzzer-beating fourth-quarter three-pointer by Tim Thomas that helped save the series for Phoenix, as his shot sent that game into overtime and gave the Suns their second wind to win 126–118 to tie the series up again, despite Kobe scoring 50 points throughout the game. The Lakers had one last chance to pull off an upset of their own in Phoenix, but an early first quarter rout by the Suns led to Kobe Bryant ultimately giving up on the team by the second half (feeling as though he was the only guy that was actually trying to win that series up until that point), which led to the Suns getting a 121–90 blowout win (led by sixth man Leandro Barbosa alongside Shawn Marion and Steve Nash) at the recently renamed U.S. Airways Center and avenging their 3–1 series loss to the Lakers back in 1970.

The following season saw a repeat in standings with the Lakers finishing in 7th place once again (this time getting a more disappointing 42–40 record) and the Suns finishing in 2nd place to win the Pacific Division once again while seeing a more improved 61–21 record with Amar'e Stoudemire returning to action (being an All-NBA First Team member alongside Steve Nash that year, being the first teammates to be on the First Team since Shaq & Kobe back in 2004) and both Boris Diaw and Raja Bell keeping the same form of play they had earlier on in the prior season. This led to the Lakers and Suns seeing each other in the first round once again. This time, though, the Suns felt more prepared to take on the Lakers with Amar'e back in action, as Phoenix easily took the first two games at home, with Amar'e, Shawn Marion, and Steve Nash controlling Game 1 and everyone on the Suns taking command of Game 2 (though most notably Leandro Barbosa) with Kobe Bryant scoring only 15 points in the second game. Phoenix looked to have continued to take control for Game 3 at first, but foul trouble by Stoudemire and Bell combined with Kobe's offense and Lamar Odom's rebounding taking over led to the Lakers getting a 95–89 win on their home court. The Lakers then tried to even the series back up again at 2–2, but highlight double-double performances by Stoudemire, Nash, and Marion ultimately were too much for Kobe and the Lakers to overcome for Game 4, leading to a 113–100 win for a 3–1 series lead. Not wanting to leave anything up to chance, the Suns led by Amar'e, Nash, Marion, and Barbosa made sure to not give Kobe Bryant, Lamar Odom, and the Lakers any chances for a series comeback of their own, making sure to beat the Lakers 119–110 at home for the 4–1 series win and their tenth win in eleven straight games. After the series ended, Kobe Bryant was interested in being traded out of the Lakers due to perceived moves like drafting Andrew Bynum and trading for Smush Parker being seen as rebuilding to his eyes. Ironically, the Suns were one of the top teams that Kobe was interested in being traded to alongside the rivaling San Antonio Spurs and Chicago Bulls, but no trades ever happened with him and due to later moves like re-signing Derek Fisher to the team, Kobe ultimately stayed with the Lakers for the rest of his career.

The 2007–08 season saw major trades for both teams occur, with different outcomes occurring for them in terms of success. For the Lakers, they traded away Kwame Brown, Javaris Crittenton, the recently retired turned re-signed Aaron McKie, the draft rights to a young and inexperienced Marc Gasol, a 2008 first round pick, a 2010 first round pick, and cash considerations to acquire star center Pau Gasol and a 2010 second round pick from the Memphis Grizzlies after Andrew Bynum was confirmed out for the rest of the season. It was a trade that was widely criticized at the time due to how unbalanced it looked in favor of the Lakers, with rivaling coach Gregg Popovich specifically commenting that a committee should be formed to "scratch all trades that make no sense". Regardless of the controversy at the time, not only was the trade approved, but it made the Lakers immediate contenders once again, as they not only regained command of the Pacific Division, but they also went as far as the 2008 NBA Finals immediately with that trade before ultimately winning the NBA Finals in 2009 with Pau Gasol on board. As for the Suns, after doing more trades that had them going for salary cap relief under the new leadership of general manager Steve Kerr, they traded an increasingly unsatisfied Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks to the Miami Heat for Kobe Bryant's former teammate, Shaquille O'Neal. The move was considered the end of the "Seven Seconds or Less" era at the time, as they left behind the quick run-and-gun movement of play to have an alternative of that with the brief "Seven Seconds or Shaq" experiment instead. It also led to the Suns having a quick first round elimination to the San Antonio Spurs that later resulted in them failing to reach the 2009 NBA playoffs entirely due to less than good coaching from new coach Terry Porter and an untimely injury to Amar'e Stoudemire three games after Alvin Gentry took over.

Despite the great performances the team had when they were at full strength under Gentry, the Suns decided to trade Shaq to the Cleveland Cavaliers for the salary dump of Ben Wallace. Doing that allowed the Suns to retain Jason Richardson, Grant Hill, and Jared Dudley, as well as sign Channing Frye, Louis Amundson, and Jarron Collins in free agency to help refortify the original strengths of the Seven Seconds or Less era teams while also looking to improve their bench units with second-year players Robin Lopez and Goran Dragić also helping out Leandro Barbosa. While the Suns didn't reclaim the Pacific Division title that year, they did improve their previous performances just enough to become the No. 3 seed of the Western Conference that year. After beating the Portland Trail Blazers in six games and surprisingly sweeping the newly-rivaling San Antonio Spurs in the semi-finals after previously being a major obstacle in their championship path, the Suns saw the Lakers once again in the Western Conference Finals as their biggest obstacle from their best shot at the NBA Finals for their era of offense. Unfortunately for the Suns, the Lakers took care of their first two games at home to begin the series 2–0 with Kobe Bryant, Lamar Odom, Paul Gasol, and the rest of the team doing what they needed to do in the Staples Center. However, the Suns were able to even the series up 2–2 despite Kobe Bryant getting double-doubles in those games with Amar'e Stoudemire and Steve Nash primarily leading the way throughout the games hosted at the U.S. Airways Center, as well as a newly confident Goran Dragić tying Steve Nash in assists for Game 4. During Game 5 in Los Angeles, the Lakers held the advantage in the first half with a 21–4-point run to lead by as much as 18 points in halftime. However, a 16–4 third quarter rally led by Steve Nash and a game-tying three-pointer by Jason Richardson late in the fourth quarter gave the Suns a chance to pull off another comeback against the Lakers. However, after a missed air-ball by Kobe Bryant, Ron Artest (now named Metta Sandiford-Artest after going by Metta World Peace later in his career) grabbed an offensive rebound and scored a buzzer-beating two-pointer to give the Lakers a 103–101 win to take control of the series 3–2. The Suns had one more chance to even the series at their home court in Game 6, but despite a late comeback attempt in the fourth quarter, Bryant and Artest proved to be too much for the Suns to pull off another comeback, with the Lakers winning 111–103 to get the 4–2 series win and then the 2010 NBA Finals championship for No. 16 in their history.

2010's Struggles
After the Suns lost the 2010 Western Conference Finals, they would go into a major freefall that ultimately lasted throughout the entire 2010's decade. With Steve Kerr resigning from his position at general manager and later being replaced by Lon Babby and Lance Blanks, Robert Sarver and the Suns not only failed to retain Amar'e Stoudemire due to them not budging on a partial guarantee met by a certain amount of games played instead of a full guarantee, but they also made multiple trades for lesser players throughout the 2010–11 season that ultimately ended the Seven Seconds or Less offensive style for them in general. After having an average record in the season with the 2011 NBA lockout being their final season with Steve Nash playing for them, they ultimately decided to trade Nash to the Lakers on July 2012 for a 2013 first round pick (which was from the Miami Heat, but held the option to be the Lakers' own first round pick instead had the Lakers missed the playoffs that year), a 2015 protected first round pick that eventually turned into an unprotected 2018 first round pick (which became Mikal Bridges), a 2013 second round pick from the Denver Nuggets, a 2014 second round pick, and cash considerations. The loss of key veterans like Nash, Grant Hill, and Channing Frye combined with the inexperience of the new roster they had (including replacing head coach Alvin Gentry with assistant coach Lindsey Hunter as the interim coach for the second half of their season) led to them having what was their second-worst record yet at the time at 25–57.

Meanwhile, the Lakers continued being the dominant team in the Pacific Division early on in the 2010's, remaining as a top three team in the Western Conference in their first two seasons entering the new decade, albeit failing to win a sixth championship for Kobe Bryant. However, cracks on their long-term structure first appeared when a trade they were supposed to get for star New Orleans Hornets point guard Chris Paul after the 2011 NBA lockout ended was vetoed by NBA commissioner David Stern after multiple complaints by other team owners, including Phoenix's Robert Sarver. With that season being the last season coached by Phil Jackson altogether, their 2012–13 season was expected to be a continuation of top-tier performances by the Lakers, who acquired Steve Nash from the Suns and Dwight Howard from the Orlando Magic to become a new superteam led by Mike Brown coaching the team. However, it immediately became a mess of a season between constant injuries from their top players, poor coaching by Brown leading to a new interim coach in Bernie Bickerstaff before being replaced by former Suns coach Mike D'Antoni for the rest of their season, and the untimely death of team owner Jerry Buss leading to his son Jim Buss taking over the structure of the Lakers. Despite the constant struggles and risk of missing the playoffs and their first round pick to the Suns, a late April surge by the Lakers led to them making it to the 2013 Playoffs as the No. 7 seed due to a combination of a win over the Houston Rockets and a loss to the Utah Jazz. However, the consequences of that season would prove to be a long-term disaster for the Lakers also.

The Suns did appear to return to playoff contention during the mid-2010's at first with a major revamping of the roster by new general manager Ryan McDonough and new head coach Jeff Hornacek leading them to a 48–34 season in their first season (with Goran Dragić, P.J. Tucker, and twin brothers Markieff and Marcus Morris being the only available players from the 2012–13 season to the 2013–14 season, excluding Channing Frye's return) and then a 29–25 record entering the 2015 NBA All-Star Game a season later. However, increasing dissatisfaction from players like Goran Dragić, Isaiah Thomas, and eventually Markieff Morris and Eric Bledsoe led to major trades that reversed course into trying to find new success through the NBA draft in the late 2010's instead. Both the Suns and the Lakers saw greater failures throughout the rest of the decade since their respective failure points, with increasing problems occurring for Phoenix and injuries and increasing incompetence going on with the Lakers. Both the Suns and Lakers saw greater periods of failures and low points that they hadn't seen since the early periods of their histories, with both teams also having their greatest playoff droughts in team history by 10 seasons for Phoenix and 6 seasons for the Lakers. Both teams also tried to rebuild themselves through the NBA draft later in the decade, with the Lakers having a higher quality of successful players drafted by comparison (such as Julius Randle, Jordan Clarkson, D'Angelo Russell, Larry Nance Jr., Brandon Ingram, Ivica Zubac, Lonzo Ball, Kyle Kuzma, Josh Hart, Thomas Bryant, and Moritz Wagner), but the Suns having arguably the best overall player drafted with Devin Booker in 2015 (as noted by Kobe Bryant himself giving props to Booker in the only match they played against each other) alongside their first ever No. 1 pick with Deandre Ayton in 2018. Both teams also saw increasing changes in coaching (with the Suns having seven different coaches in seven years and the Lakers having Byron Scott and Luke Walton replace Mike D'Antoni later on) and general management (with Jim Buss being replaced by Jeanie Buss as majority team owner in 2017 and Ryan McDonough being replaced by former player James Jones as general manager for new directions going forward) that further led to their decreasing quality in play, even after the Lakers later acquired LeBron James in 2018.

Rivalry renewal of the 2020's
Before dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, both the Lakers and the Suns saw some genuine improvements with themselves once they exited the 2010's and entered the 2020's decade. For the Lakers, the acquisition of New Orleans Pelicans power forward/center Anthony Davis they hinted at back in the 2018–19 season alongside the new coaching hire of Frank Vogel and veteran pick-ups like Rajon Rondo, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, JaVale McGee, Danny Green, Avery Bradley, the return of Dwight Howard, and former Suns players Jared Dudley and Markieff Morris helped provide the Lakers their first playoff appearance since 2013. As for the Suns, under new head coach Monty Williams with a focus on trades for older players like Kelly Oubre Jr., Dario Šarić, Cameron Johnson, Aron Baynes, Ricky Rubio, and Jevon Carter; the Suns saw their best success before the pandemic began since 2015 with a 26–39 record. The 2019–20 NBA season suspension risked both teams failing to even have their seasons continue, never mind having the 2020 NBA playoffs occur altogether, but they were both given access to the 2020 NBA Bubble to help continue their seasons properly. Both teams saw significant success as newfound turning points once they entered the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida after the Suns signed Cameron Payne and the Lakers signed J. R. Smith for the Bubble, with Phoenix having a perfect 8–0 record in the Bubble (although missing the playoffs yet again) and the Lakers eventually winning the 2020 NBA Finals to tie the NBA for most championships won there with 17 (dedicating this championship to Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna after their tragic passing in the 2020 Calabasas helicopter crash earlier in the season).

While still dealing with the long-term consequences of the pandemic for a somewhat shortened 2020–21 season, the Suns sought to make significant changes by trading Kelly Oubre Jr., Ricky Rubio, Jalen Lecque, Ty Jerome, and a 2022 first round pick to the Oklahoma City Thunder for Chris Paul and Abdel Nader. That trade alongside the signing of veteran forward Jae Crowder and a later trade for Torrey Craig helped the Suns not only end their playoff drought that began back in the 2010–11 season, but they also won the Pacific Division championship and had the second-best record of the NBA for the shortened season at 51–21 behind only the Utah Jazz. Meanwhile, the Lakers and Miami Heat (the losing 2020 NBA Finals team) had only 72 days off between the NBA Finals and the start of that season, which left not enough time for players like LeBron James and Anthony Davis to fully recover properly. Despite the inherent disadvantage, the Lakers still finished the season with a 42–30 record, leading to a seventh place finish and a gritty win over the Golden State Warriors in the newly implemented and upgraded NBA play-in tournament to gain the 7th seed that season. Due to COVID-19 protocols at the time, neither team could fully fill up their stadiums with proper crowds, but they both made sure to provide a great first round for their rivalry being renewed since their last playoff match against each other in 2010. For Game 1, the performances of Devin Booker, Deandre Ayton, and Chris Paul from the Suns overtook the Lakers from the very start of the game, ultimately winning 99–90 in their first playoff match since 2010. For the next two games, though, the overpowering presences of Anthony Davis, LeBron James, and Andre Drummond led to the Lakers taking over the series with a 2–1 series lead with convincing victories at hand, as well as a notable moment in Game 3 where Andre Drummond was reflecting LeBron's movements offensively against Jae Crowder. For Game 4, however, Anthony Davis suffered a serious groin injury that led to him leaving the rest of the game, which subsequently led to the Suns winning 100–92 and tying the series back up again. Davis' absence in Game 5 led to the Suns blowing out the Lakers with a 115–85 score (highlighted by LeBron James willingly exiting the game in what was known as the Phoenix Suns Arena at the time with a few minutes left to go in the game) and forced the Lakers to try and get Davis back in action for Game 6. Unfortunately for the Lakers, Anthony Davis still faced serious pain with his groin during Game 6, which left him playing only limited minutes and led to Devin Booker having a series closing game of 47 points and 12 rebounds in a 113–100 win to secure a 4–2 series win over the Lakers during the last playoff series the Lakers played in for the Staples Center under that name. Phoenix eventually reached the 2021 NBA Finals, but ultimately lost to the Milwaukee Bucks 4–2.

The following season after that had the Suns record a new personal best 64–18 record leading the entire NBA that year by signing former Lakers center JaVale McGee alongside Bismack Biyombo, while the Lakers tried to have a new superteam with Russell Westbrook, Carmelo Anthony, Rajon Rondo for a second time, and Dwight Howard for a third time joining LeBron James and Anthony Davis. However, that superteam failed to even reach the play-in tournament for 2022, seeing themselves be eliminated from direct playoff contention on April 5, 2022 with a 121–110 defeat to the Phoenix Suns themselves, though Phoenix later saw a disappointing second round exit that season by Luka Dončić and the Dallas Mavericks. For the 2022–23 season, both the Suns and Lakers saw early struggles due to serious controversy with owner Robert Sarver and a failed offseason trade for Kevin Durant for Phoenix and troubles adapting to new head coach Darvin Ham and trying to make last season's superteam attempt still work for the Lakers respectively. However, with necessary adjustments combined with key trades for the Suns and Lakers by that season's trade deadline (acquiring Kevin Durant after Mat Ishbia and Justin Ishbia replaced Robert Sarver for the Suns and creating better balance over a superteam for the Lakers respectively), both team still made it to the playoffs, with the Lakers winning another play-in tournament game (this time against the Minnesota Timberwolves). Despite the Suns having a better overall record, the 7-seeded Lakers managed to go farther in the playoffs than the Phoenix Suns via the Western Conference Finals, though both teams fell to the eventual champion Denver Nuggets, with the Suns being the only team to get more than one win against Denver.

Entering the 2023–24 season, the Phoenix Suns looked to create their own superteam with Chris Paul and Landry Shamet being traded alongside a bunch of first round picks to the Washington Wizards for star shooting guard Bradley Beal joining Devin Booker and Kevin Durant alongside mostly veteran's minimum players joining them, as well as having former Lakers coach Frank Vogel being their new head coach. Meanwhile, the Lakers look to continue to build upon their success from the prior season by retaining most of the key players they acquired that season like D'Angelo Russell, Rui Hachimura, Austin Reaves, and Jarred Vanderbilt, as well as acquire players like Gabe Vincent and Christian Wood to help their bench unit. The second game of the season for both teams was Kevin Durant's first match against LeBron James while LeBron is in Los Angeles and Durant is in Phoenix (and their first regular season matchup in five years). Kevin Durant lead the Suns in scoring with 39 points, but LeBron helped lead the Lakers to bounce back and win 100-95. In addition to that, the Suns and Lakers both were grouped in Group A of the inaugural NBA In-Season Tournament, with their debut game there being on November 10, 2023, with the potential of another in-season tournament match occurring if one of them is the best team of Group A and the other is considered the best team of the rest of the groups in the competition and they both meet up in the in-season tournament's single-elimination playoffs.

Players in both teams

 Gail Goodrich
 Mel Counts
 Jerry Chambers
 John Wetzel
 Keith Erickson
 Connie Hawkins
 Pat Riley
 Charlie Scott
 Corky Calhoun
 Walt Wesley
 Nate Hawthorne
 James Edwards
 Marty Byrnes
 Kurt Rambis
 Mike McGee
 Maurice Lucas
 A.C. Green
 Cedric Ceballos
 Tony Smith
 Chucky Brown
 Duane Cooper
 Joe Kleine
 Danny Schayes
 Corie Blount
 Mario Bennett
/ Steve Nash
 Shaquille O'Neal
 Robert Horry

/ Rumeal Robinson
 George McCloud
 Joe Crispin
 Jim Jackson
 Jumaine Jones
 Brian Grant
 Smush Parker
 Trevor Ariza
 Jared Dudley
 Matt Barnes
 Shannon Brown
 Channing Frye
 Earl Clark
 Markieff Morris
 Ronnie Price
 Michael Beasley
 Wesley Johnson
 Kendall Marshall
 Isaiah Thomas
 Tyler Ennis
 Reggie Bullock
 Shaquille Harrison
 Davon Reed
 Tyson Chandler
 Troy Daniels
 JaVale McGee
 Damian Jones

See also
National Basketball Association rivalries
Diamondbacks–Dodgers rivalry
Cardinals–Rams rivalry

References

External links
Los Angeles Lakers vs. Phoenix Suns All-Time Head-to-Head Record in the NBA at LandOfBasketball.com
Lakers official site at NBA.com
Suns official site at NBA.com

National Basketball Association rivalries
Los Angeles Lakers
Phoenix Suns

Lakers–Suns rivalry


The Augusto B. Legaspi Sports & Cultural Complex is an indoor sporting arena located in Kalibo, Aklan, Philippines. It was constructed in 1993 inside the Godofredo P. Ramos Park fronting the Provincial Capitol of Aklan. Several events are being held here like concerts, basketball games, social gatherings, graduations, and other activities that the facilities may cater. It was named in honor of a former governor of the Province. The facility is primarily used for basketball games.

Basketball venues in the Philippines
Indoor arenas in the Philippines
Kalibo
Buildings and structures in Aklan
Sports in Aklan

ABL Sports & Cultural Complex


The Wehlgrund in Saxon Switzerland in Eastern Germany is a right-hand, side valley of the Amselgrund, between the Bastei massif and the Kleiner Gans. Amongst the steep rock faces of the upper valley and the heavily divided head of the valley is the romantic and natural backdrop for the Rathen Open Air Stage. The Wehlgrundbach flows along the valley bottom and empties into the Grünbach in the Amselgrund valley a short distance above Niederrathen. North of the open air stage near the rocks of the Gänse rises the imposing Wehlnadel and, in its vicinity, are the Wehltürme rock towers. The Bastei may be reached from the Wehlgrund over the Rathen Staircase (Rathener Treppe) of 487 steps.

See also
Rock climbing in Saxon Switzerland.

External links

Valleys of Saxony
Landforms of Saxon Switzerland
Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge

Wehlgrund


Division III is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States. The division is made up of colleges and universities that choose not to offer their students athletic scholarships.

This is a list of athletics conferences that belong to this division, divided into several groups by sports sponsorship:
All-sports conferences
Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference
American Rivers Conference
American Southwest Conference
Atlantic East Conference
Centennial Conference
City University of New York Athletic Conference
Coast-To-Coast Athletic Conference
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin
Collegiate Conference of the South
Commonwealth Coast Conference
Empire 8
Great Northeast Athletic Conference
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference
Landmark Conference
Liberty League
Little East Conference
Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
Middle Atlantic Conference — An umbrella organization for the following three leagues:
 MAC Commonwealth, sponsoring 14 sports including men's and women's basketball, but not football
 MAC Freedom, sponsoring the same set of 14 sports
 Middle Atlantic Conference, not to be confused with the umbrella organization; sponsoring competition in 13 sports, including football, for both Commonwealth and Freedom members
Midwest Conference
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
New England Small College Athletic Conference
New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference
New Jersey Athletic Conference
North Atlantic Conference
North Coast Athletic Conference
Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference
Northwest Conference
Ohio Athletic Conference
Old Dominion Athletic Conference
Presidents' Athletic Conference
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Skyline Conference
Southern Athletic Association
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference
State University of New York Athletic Conference
United East Conference
University Athletic Association
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference
USA South Athletic Conference
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

Football-only conferences
 Eastern Collegiate Football Conference

Ice hockey-only conferences
 Colonial Hockey Conference (women only)
 ECAC West (men and women)
 New England Hockey Conference (men and women)
 Northern Collegiate Hockey Association (men and women)
 United Collegiate Hockey Conference (men and women)

Lacrosse-only conferences
 Midwest Lacrosse Conference (men only)
 Midwest Women's Lacrosse Conference

Men's volleyball-only conferences
 Continental Volleyball Conference
 Midwest Collegiate Volleyball League
 New England Collegiate Conference
 United Volleyball Conference

College athletics conferences

NCAA Division III