After winning their first NBA championship in more than 50 years, you can bet the 2026 New York Knicks are going to have a plethora of championship merch. There is ONE thing they’re not cooking up, however. Something that the Lakers and their wives came up with all the way back in 1985 – A Championship Cookbook. This kicked off a trend of NBA champs penning charity cookbooks until the Lakers themselves published a sequel when they won back to back in the early 2000s. It also inspired one man to go full Julie & Julia and COOK the recipes from his beloved Lakers legends.
CHAPTERS:
Intro (:00)
Showtime Lakers Bigger than Basketball (1:16)
The Laker Ladies (2:31)
Lakers Run the Playoffs (4:48)
Celtics Finals Revenge (8:22)
A Lakers Charity Cookbook (9:23)
Starting a Trend (14:18)
Goldstein & Gasol (15:25)
Harry Cooks Kobe Bryant's Seared Tuna (22:40)
SOURCES:
Goldstein & Gasol
1985 World Champion Los Angeles Lakers Are Cookin’ Family Cookbook
Cooking with the Champs: Recipes from the World Champion Detroit Pistons
Chicago Bulls “Cooking Up A Championship”
The Lakers Are Cookin’ Again!
Long Before Social Networking, Community Cookbooks Ruled The Stove | NPR
Special thanks to Pablo Goldstein.
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