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Article: There Goes the Neighborhood.(Los Angeles Lakers leave Inglewood)(Brief Article)
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- Los Angeles Magazine
- Article date:
- December 1, 1998
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AS THE STAPLES CENTER TAKES SHAPE, INGLEWOOD PONDERS LIFE WITHOUT THE LAKERS
THE FAMILIAR BANNERS NEAR THE GREAT WESTERN FORUM trumpet Inglewood as the City of Champions. But as the Lakers prepare for their final season there, residents and merchants wonder whether the moment Shaq's last shot drops through the net will also mark the fall of Inglewood itself. * While George Steinbrenner tries in vain to extract the Yankees from the Bronx, the owners of the Lakers and the Kings managed to spirit their teams from the neighborhood to the new $300 million Staples Center downtown. The exodus will cost Inglewood up to $1 million annually in lost revenues from ticket and ...