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((Infobox football club
|  clubname = Los Angeles Lazers
|  image    = LosAngelesLazers8289.png
|  fullname = Los Angeles Lazers
|  nickname = 
|  founded  = 1982
|  dissolved = 1989
|  ground   = [[The Forum (Inglewood, California)|The Forum]],<br> [[Inglewood, California]]
|  capacity = 15,893
|  chairman = 
|  manager  = 
|  league   = [[Major Soccer League|Major Indoor Soccer League]]
|  season   = 
|  position =
|  owner    = [[Jerry Buss]]
))
The '''Los Angeles Lazers''' were an [[indoor soccer]] team that played in the [[Major Soccer League|Major Indoor Soccer League]] (MISL) from 1982 to 1989.

==History==
[[Jerry Buss]], the owner of California Sports, the parent company of the [[Los Angeles Lakers]], [[Los Angeles Kings|Kings]] and [[Los Angeles Strings|Strings]] of [[TeamTennis]] and [[The Forum (Inglewood, California)|The Forum]], the home arena of all three teams, was always looking for innovative ways to add additional creative programming to the Forum. He called upon his oldest son Johnny Buss and long-time California Sports executive Ron Weinstein to bring indoor soccer to Los Angeles.<ref>((cite web |url=http://www.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1983.html#MISL |title=The Year in American Soccer&nbsp;– 1983 |website=Sover.net |access-date=2016-05-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090617064458/http://www.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1983.html#MISL |archive-date=2009-06-17 |url-status=dead ))</ref> In 1981, Buss was awarded an expansion franchise at the same August league meeting where the MISL granted a one-year leave of absence to the [[Philadelphia Fever (MISL)|Philadelphia Fever]].<ref>((cite web|title="Fever Halts Operation For 1 Year," Philadelphia Daily News, August 11, 1982|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52583775/philadelphia-daily-news-11-aug-1982/))</ref> Buss and Weinstein named the team the Los Angeles Lazers, and the team began play in the fall of 1982. The team's name stemmed from the up-and-coming laser light show industry, which management believed would depict a perfect synergy of the lightning fast pace of indoor soccer. It became a pre-game ritual for every Lazers game to have a laser show displayed on the walls of the Forum, which even intrigued [[Neil Diamond]] enough to visit the Lazer offices in order to investigate and ultimately incorporate this new laser technology into his own onstage live performances.<ref>((cite web|url=https://monkfromhavana.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/los-angeles-lazers/ |title=Los Angeles Lazers &#124; NASLhistory |website=Monkfromhavana.wordpress.com |date=2011-05-04 |access-date=2016-05-12))</ref> Following in the footsteps of the "Showtime" Los Angeles Lakers, the Lazers drew many celebrities to their games including [[Cher]], [[James Caan]], [[Ricky Schroder]] and Diamond. The "Laker Girls" performed double duty from 1982 to 1989, performing as the "Lazer Girls" at all home games. This opportunity played an integral part in the career of [[Paula Abdul]], who was the lead dancer and choreographer of the team.

Johnny Buss was president of the Lazers from 1982 to 1985 when he went on to pursue other endeavors. His younger brother, Jim Buss, took over as president for the 1985–86 season. In 1986, Jerry Buss attended his first MISL Board of Governors meeting. He strongly suggested to the board that they begin to reduce player salaries and gradually move the league into the summer months. Dr. Buss continued to play for three more seasons, and, after recognizing the MISL was not moving in the proper direction in the summer of 1989, he shared with Lazers executive vice president Ron Weinstein that he was closing the doors on the Lazers. He told Weinstein that if he ever wanted to start a professional indoor soccer league that played in the summer months with a fiscally responsible budget, then he would mentor him while tying the new league into the NBA and NHL. Thus, the seed was planted in Weinstein for the founding of the [[Continental Indoor Soccer League]] (CISL).<ref name="sover1984">((cite web |url=http://www.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1984.html#MISL |title=The Year in American Soccer&nbsp;– 1984 |website=Sover.net |date=2010-01-31 |access-date=2016-05-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090617064526/http://www.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1984.html#MISL |archive-date=2009-06-17 |url-status=dead ))</ref>

==Arena==
The Lazers played their home games in [[The Forum (Inglewood, California)|The Forum]] in [[Inglewood, California]].

==Coaches==
*((flagicon|England)) [[Peter Wall (footballer)|Peter Wall]] 1982–1987
*((flagicon|USA))[[Keith Tozer]] 1987–1989

==Year-by-year==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Year!!Record!!Regular season!!Playoffs!!Avg. attendance
|-
| 1982–1983 || 8–40 || 7th Western Division || ''Did not qualify'' || ''3,963''
|-
| 1983–1984 || 24–24 || 3rd Western Division || First Round ||''4,405''
|-
| 1984–1985 || 24–24 || 3rd Western Division || Quarterfinals || ''5,062''
|-
| 1985–1986 || 13–35 || 6th Western Division || ''Did not qualify'' || ''4,770''
|-
| 1986–1987 || 16–36 || 6th Western Division || ''Did not qualify'' || ''4,647''
|-
| 1987–1988 || 31–25 || 2nd Western Division || 1st Round || ''5,879''
|-
| 1988–1989 || 21–27 || 6th || ''Did not qualify'' || ''4,866''
|}

==Honors==
'''Coach of the Year'''
* 1984–1985 [[Peter Wall (footballer)|Peter Wall]]

'''Rookie of the Year'''
* 1982–83 [[Kirk Shermer]]

==Television and radio coverage==
In their inaugural season, the Lazers games were broadcast on Cable Radio Network. Beginning in the second season, Bill MacDonald asked Buss and Weinstein for permission to broadcast the Lazers home games on KBOB radio in Pasadena. MacDonald's family agreed to purchase the air time, and MacDonald's long running career was launched.<ref name="sover1984"/> During the 1983–84 season, the Lazers made the first entree into the television arena by broadcasting a few games on the Lakers and Kings KCAL 9 television network. Chick Hearn, the Lakers broadcaster, and Bob Miller, the Kings broadcaster, shared the play-by-play responsibilities. During the 1984–85 season, the Lazers began to broadcast their games on Prime Ticket, which was the regional sports network created by Dr. Jerry Buss for Southern California. This first Lazers broadcast was only the second event to have ever been aired on the Prime Ticket Network. Joel Meyers, a new and upcoming telecaster, joined MacDonald to become the dynamic team that announced every play from then on for the Lazers.<ref>((cite web |url=http://www.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1986.html#MISL |title=The Year in American Soccer&nbsp;– 1986 |website=Sover.net |date=2012-07-12 |access-date=2016-05-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325061805/http://www.sover.net/~spectrum/year/1986.html#MISL |archive-date=2009-03-25 |url-status=dead ))</ref>

==References==
((Reflist))

((Major Indoor Soccer League (1978–1992)))

[[Category:Association football clubs established in 1982]]
[[Category:Association football clubs disestablished in 1989]]
[[Category:Defunct indoor soccer clubs in the United States]]
[[Category:Soccer clubs in Greater Los Angeles|Lazers]]
[[Category:Sports clubs and teams in Inglewood, California|Lazers]]
[[Category:Major Indoor Soccer League (1978–1992) teams]]
[[Category:1982 establishments in California]]
[[Category:1989 disestablishments in California]]
[[Category:Soccer clubs in California]]

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