One of the wonderful attributes about residing in or near a big city in America is how near you have to watch your favorite professional athletic teams. This will include some information about the professional sports teams that are currently in Los Angeles where basketball, baseball, hockey and soccer all have teams located there. The unusual things and the disappointing factor is that LA is the biggest city in the United States to not have its own professional football team, according to a Los Angeles emergency plumber. Despite the void of football in this beautiful southern California town, residents love the existing teams and treat them with as much importance as a middle of the nightplumbing emergency 90027.

Basketball is a huge sport in LA, so much so that they have two professional teams that compete in the NBA. The more successful one and the popular one is absolutely the LA Lakers that have been led by top players both past and present, Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Shaquille O'Neal. The lakers originally got their name from being a team in Minnesota where it is called the land of 10,000 lakes and moved to LA in 1960. They are the present NBA champions and have been called the greatest NBA franchise of all time by an ESPN reporter and basketball specialist.

The professional baseball team in LA is The Los Angeles Dodgers and play at Dodgers stadium. They started out as the Brooklyn Dodgers and moved to California in 1958. The name Dodgers came from the term trolley dodgers that people from Brooklyn were often called. The most famous baseball player to have played for The Dodgers is Jackie Robinson and the best known manager who led the team was most likely Tommy Lasorda. One of the things this club broke ground on doing was recruiting players from Asia beginning in 1980. Now it is a common occurrence with most other ball clubs to sign athletes from China, Korea or Japan.

Usually, professional soccer does not have a huge following and pales compared to other sports like football, baseball and basketball. This is not the case for the team here called the Los Angeles Galaxy and that can be credited for a couple of reasons, that they do not compete with a football team in the fall season and the huge popularity of David Beckham. This MLS team is located in Carson, California which is a suburb of LA and got it's name referring to all of the Hollywood stars in LA. In 2007, the team signed British superstar, David Beckham and after that the team has had the most profitable and highest popularity of all MLS teams and record attendance at their games.

The final team is the Los Angeles Kings which are a hockey team playing in the NHL and started in 1966. They currently play at the Staples Center along with the two NBA teams in LA and have a strong fan following.