Which Spanish born player was traded mid-season to the Los Angeles Lakers during their 2007-2008 season?
Pau Gasol
Pau Gasol
Pau Gasol Sáez (] , ] ; born July 6, 1980) is a Spanish professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 He is a six-time NBA All-Star, and a four-time All-NBA selection, twice on the second team and twice on the third team.
 He has won two NBA championships, both with the Los Angeles Lakers.
 He was the NBA Rookie of the Year in 2002 with the Memphis Grizzlies, one of only three non-American NBA players to win that award.
 He is the older brother of fellow NBA player Marc Gasol.
2007–08 Los Angeles Lakers season
The 2007–08 Los Angeles Lakers season was the 60th season of the franchise, 59th in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and 48th in Los Angeles.
 During the offseason, the Lakers re-signed point guard Derek Fisher.
 The Lakers celebrated their 60th anniversary, thus the Laker jerseys wore the 60th anniversary patches on the leftmost part.
 They finished the regular season with 57 wins, finishing with the most wins in the tightest conference race in NBA history.
 The Lakers clinched the top seed in the playoffs for the 29th time in franchise history.
 This 15-game turnaround from the prior season has been attributed to the progress of the team's bench players and the mid-season trade for Pau Gasol.
 The Lakers sold out all 41 home games for the season.
 After 12 seasons in the NBA, Kobe Bryant was named the 2008 NBA Most Valuable Player for the first time in his career.
 The Lakers post-season ended by losing the NBA Finals to the Boston Celtics in six games.
South Bay Lakers
The South Bay Lakers are an NBA G League team based in Los Angeles.
 Founded in 2006 as the Los Angeles D-Fenders, the team is owned by the Los Angeles Lakers, who were the first National Basketball Association (NBA) franchise to own a D-League team.
 At the conclusion of the 2016–17 D-League season, the D-Fenders re-branded as the South Bay Lakers for the G League.
 They also moved their home games from the Toyota Sports Center into the UCLA Health Training Center, a new practice facility for the Los Angeles Lakers in El Segundo. Lakers–Clippers rivalry
The Lakers–Clippers rivalry is a National Basketball Association (NBA) rivalry between the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers.
 The two Pacific Division teams both play their home games at Staples Center in Los Angeles, inspiring their matchups to sometimes be called the "Hallway Series".
 The Lakers relocated from Minneapolis in 1960, while the Clippers moved from San Diego in 1984.
 Los Angeles fans have historically favored the Lakers.
 But the Clippers have sold out every home game at Staples Center since Feb. 2011 and entered the 2016–17 season with the sixth-longest active sellout streak in the NBA.
 The Lakers have won 11 of their 16 NBA championships since moving to Los Angeles.
 Meanwhile, the Clippers have made the playoffs only nine times since 1984 and were long considered the laughingstock of the NBA; in the history of the franchise, they have never advanced past the second round of the playoffs.
 Some contended that the term "rivalry" was inaccurate until the Clippers became more successful.
 For the first time in 20 years, the Clippers won the season series against the Lakers in 2012–13.
 This was the first of five straight season series victories for the Clippers, which included season sweeps in both 2014-15 and 2015-16.
 With the Clippers' 3-1 series win in 2016-17, the Lakers have now won the season series just four times in the past 13 seasons, with five Clippers wins, four Lakers wins, and four ties.
 The Lakers hold a 99–47 advantage in the all-time series against the Clippers.
 The two teams have never met in the playoffs. 2011 NBA All-Star Game
The 2011 NBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game that was played on February 20, 2011 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, home of the Los Angeles Clippers and the Los Angeles Lakers.
 This game was the 60th edition of the National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star Game and was played during the 2010–11 NBA season.
 The Los Angeles Clippers and Los Angeles Lakers served as the hosts.
 The Clippers and Lakers were both awarded the All-Star Game in an announcement by commissioner David Stern on June 9, 2009.
 This was the second time that the Staples Center had hosted the All-Star Game; the arena had previously hosted the event in 2004.
 This will be the fifth time that Los Angeles had hosted the All-Star Game; before Staples Center opened in 1999, the city had previously hosted the event in 1963, 1972, and 1983.
 Rihanna, Kanye West and Drake were the halftime performers, while Keri Hilson, Lenny Kravitz and Bruno Mars were the entertainment for pre-show festivities. List of Los Angeles Lakers seasons
The Los Angeles Lakers are a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California that competes in the National Basketball Association (NBA), which was formerly called the Basketball Association of America (BAA).
 Since 1999, the Lakers have played their home games at Staples Center.
 The Lakers' franchise was founded in 1947 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
 The first owners purchased the disbanded Gems from Detroit, Michigan, then renamed and moved the team.
 It was in Minneapolis where the Lakers received their official title from Minnesota's nickname, Land of 10,000 Lakes.
 The Lakers won five championships before relocating to Los Angeles for the 1960–61 NBA season.
 The Lakers went on to lose all of their eight appearances in the NBA Finals in the 1960s, despite the presence of Elgin Baylor and Jerry West.
 In , the Lakers compiled a 33-game winning streak, the longest streak in U.S. professional team sports, and won their sixth title, under coach Bill Sharman.
 The Lakers' popularity soared in the 1980s when they won five additional championships during a nine-year span with the help of Hall of Famers Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Worthy and coach Pat Riley, the franchise's all-time leader in both regular season and playoff games coached and wins.
 Two of those championships during that span were against their arch-rivals, the Boston Celtics.
 With the help of Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, and Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson, the Lakers played in seven NBA Finals between 2000 and 2010, winning three of them consecutively from 2000 to 2002, losing the next two in 2004 and 2008, and winning in 2009 and 2010; the last three appearances were without O'Neal. List of career achievements by Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant is an American retired shooting guard who played for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) for his entire 20-year career.
 Bryant is the only son of former Philadelphia 76ers player and former Los Angeles Sparks head coach Joe Bryant.
 Selected 13th overall by the Charlotte Hornets in the 1996 NBA draft, Bryant was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers for Vlade Divac a month later.
 He and then-teammate Shaquille O'Neal led the Lakers to three consecutive NBA championships from 2000 to 2002.
 After O'Neal was traded to the Miami Heat following the 2003–04 season, Bryant became the cornerstone of the Lakers franchise.
 He led the NBA in scoring during the and seasons.
 In 2006, Bryant scored a career-high 81 points against the Toronto Raptors, the second-highest number of points scored in a game in NBA history, behind only Wilt Chamberlain's 100 point performance.
 Bryant was awarded the regular season's Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) in the 2007–08 season and led his team to the 2008 NBA Finals as the first seed in the Western Conference.
 In the 2008 Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal as a member of the U.S. men's basketball team, occasionally referred to as "The Redeem Team".
 He led the Lakers to two more championships in 2009 and 2010, winning the Finals MVP award on both occasions. List of 40-plus point games by Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant is an American basketball shooting guard who played for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 Selected 13th overall by the Charlotte Hornets in the 1996 NBA draft, Bryant was traded to the Lakers for Vlade Divac a month later.
 He led the Lakers to three consecutive NBA championships playing alongside Shaquille O'Neal from 2000 to 2002.
 After O'Neal was traded to the Miami Heat before the 2004–05 season, Bryant "became the cornerstone" of the Lakers franchise.
 He led the NBA in scoring during the and seasons.
 In the 2007–08 season, Bryant won the Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) and led his team to the 2008 NBA Finals, where the Lakers lost to the Boston Celtics.
 After winning the gold medal in the 2008 Summer Olympics as a member of the U.S. men's basketball team, he led the Lakers to two more championships in 2009 and 2010, defeating the Orlando Magic and the Boston Celtics. 2015–16 Los Angeles Lakers season
The 2015–16 Los Angeles Lakers season was the franchise's 68th season, its 67th season in the National Basketball Association (NBA), and its 56th in Los Angeles.
 The Lakers looked to rebound following its worst season in franchise history in 2014–15.
 Unfortunately, the Lakers would finish with a franchise-worst 17–65 record.
 Jordan Hill, Jeremy Lin, Wesley Johnson, Wayne Ellington, Carlos Boozer, Ronnie Price and Ed Davis all departed respectively.
 The Lakers drafted D'Angelo Russell, Larry Nance, Jr., and Anthony Brown in the 2015 NBA Draft.
 Afterwards, the Lakers traded for former Pacers' center Roy Hibbert and signed for the reigning Sixth Man of the Year, Lou Williams, and forward Brandon Bass.
 Former Lakers forward, Metta World Peace, was brought back to the team as well after the Lakers amnestied him in 2013.
 This was Kobe Bryant's final season with the team and in the NBA after he announced his retirement. Los Angeles Lakers all-time roster
The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California.
 They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 The Lakers' franchise was founded in 1947 in Detroit, Michigan before moving to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where the team got its official title from the state's nickname, "Land of 10,000 Lakes".
 The Minneapolis Lakers won five NBA Finals before relocating to Los Angeles in the 1960–61 NBA season, becoming the first West Coast team in league history.
 In the 1960s, the Lakers reached the NBA Finals six times, but lost every series to the Boston Celtics, beginning their long and storied rivalry.
 In 1972, with future Hall of Famers Wilt Chamberlain, Gail Goodrich, and Jerry West, the Lakers compiled a 33-game winning streak, the longest streak in U.S. professional team sports, and won their sixth title under coach Bill Sharman.
 The Lakers' popularity soared in the 1980s when they won five additional championships during a nine-year span with the help of Hall of Famers Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Worthy and coach Pat Riley, the franchise's all-time leader in both regular season and playoff games coached and wins.
 Two of those championships during that span were against their arch-rivals, the Boston Celtics.
 With the team of Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, Toby Tincher, and Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson, the Lakers played in four of the first five NBA Finals of the 21st century; winning three consecutively from 2000 to 2002, and losing the fourth in 2004.
 The Lakers would then conclude the decade with three straight Finals appearances; losing to the Boston Celtics in 2008 but then prevailing with back-to-back championships against the Orlando Magic in 2009 and the Boston Celtics in 2010.
 The 2010 championship marks the 16th NBA championship in Lakers franchise history.