george karl nba coaching record vs the lakers

George Karl had a 45-44 record versus the Lakers in his coaching career.

	TEAM	COACH	DATE	REC	TM		OPP	RESULT	W%	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	FGM	FGA	FG%	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	TS%	OREB	DREB	TOV	PF
1	Cavaliers	George Karl	12/4/1984	0-1	CLE	vs	LAL	L 112-116	.000	240	112	34	31	9	6	47	91	51.6	0	1	0.0	18	21	85.7	55.9	11	23	15	20
2	Cavaliers	George Karl	3/9/1985	0-1	CLE	@	LAL	L 106-133	.000	240	106	43	23	11	4	40	98	40.8	0	4	0.0	26	37	70.3	46.4	18	25	19	27
3	Cavaliers	George Karl	11/5/1985	1-0	CLE	@	LAL	W 129-111	1.000	240	129	48	28	9	8	51	90	56.7	1	2	50.0	26	38	68.4	60.4	13	35	14	27
4	Cavaliers	George Karl	12/20/1985	0-1	CLE	vs	LAL	L 116-128	.000	240	116	41	26	6	3	46	99	46.5	1	7	14.3	23	28	82.1	52.1	13	28	12	25
5	Warriors	George Karl	12/4/1986	1-0	GSW	vs	LAL	W 116-106	1.000	240	116	40	33	13	4	49	91	53.8	1	5	20.0	17	23	73.9	57.4	11	29	13	27
6	Warriors	George Karl	12/7/1986	0-1	GSW	@	LAL	L 100-132	.000	240	100	46	18	7	3	39	92	42.4	0	4	0.0	22	26	84.6	48.3	20	26	22	24
7	Warriors	George Karl	1/10/1987	1-0	GSW	vs	LAL	W 124-109	1.000	240	124	53	29	11	4	48	101	47.5	3	7	42.9	25	30	83.3	54.3	22	31	15	31
8	Warriors	George Karl	1/15/1987	0-1	GSW	@	LAL	L 109-129	.000	240	109	38	27	8	3	39	89	43.8	2	5	40.0	29	34	85.3	52.4	13	25	19	30
9	Warriors	George Karl	2/27/1987	0-1	GSW	@	LAL	L 109-121	.000	240	109	28	35	9	2	48	89	53.9	2	8	25.0	11	13	84.6	57.5	7	21	12	23
10	Warriors	George Karl	3/3/1987	0-1	GSW	vs	LAL	L 109-114	.000	240	109	38	28	11	1	46	99	46.5	2	7	28.6	15	20	75.0	50.6	16	22	15	27
11	Warriors	George Karl	11/14/1987	0-1	GSW	vs	LAL	L 110-118	.000	240	110	35	26	8	2	48	97	49.5	1	6	16.7	13	17	76.5	52.6	12	23	11	28
12	Warriors	George Karl	12/17/1987	0-1	GSW	vs	LAL	L 106-113	.000	240	106	41	26	8	3	47	87	54.0	0	3	0.0	12	19	63.2	55.6	9	32	15	29
13	Warriors	George Karl	1/12/1988	0-1	GSW	@	LAL	L 113-117	.000	240	113	53	26	3	5	47	91	51.6	2	4	50.0	17	23	73.9	55.9	19	34	19	27
14	Warriors	George Karl	3/4/1988	0-1	GSW	@	LAL	L 107-120	.000	240	107	36	33	13	2	40	92	43.5	2	3	66.7	25	31	80.6	50.6	14	22	17	33
15	Warriors	George Karl	3/20/1988	0-1	GSW	vs	LAL	L 127-130	.000	240	127	38	27	17	4	48	91	52.7	0	3	0.0	31	34	91.2	59.9	19	19	15	27
16	SuperSonics	George Karl	2/20/1992	1-0	SEA	vs	LAL	W 105-103	1.000	240	105	44	23	6	4	42	88	47.7	3	8	37.5	18	21	85.7	54.0	20	24	15	23
17	SuperSonics	George Karl	4/3/1992	1-0	SEA	@	LAL	W 96-91	1.000	240	96	39	26	17	7	36	78	46.2	0	9	0.0	24	27	88.9	53.4	18	21	26	25
18	SuperSonics	George Karl	4/7/1992	1-0	SEA	vs	LAL	W 117-88	1.000	240	117	50	26	13	4	47	89	52.8	2	9	22.2	21	26	80.8	58.2	23	27	14	24
19	SuperSonics	George Karl	11/12/1992	1-0	SEA	vs	LAL	W 114-102	1.000	240	114	45	23	11	10	48	96	50.0	5	14	35.7	13	18	72.2	54.8	22	23	13	21
20	SuperSonics	George Karl	12/23/1992	1-0	SEA	@	LAL	W 80-79	1.000	240	80	35	16	12	4	33	75	44.0	2	3	66.7	12	17	70.6	48.5	5	30	15	26
21	SuperSonics	George Karl	1/20/1993	1-0	SEA	@	LAL	W 111-101	1.000	240	111	40	27	11	6	46	87	52.9	3	6	50.0	16	23	69.6	57.1	16	24	16	21
22	SuperSonics	George Karl	4/11/1993	0-1	SEA	@	LAL	L 96-98	.000	240	96	36	24	10	4	40	80	50.0	3	6	50.0	13	19	68.4	54.3	16	20	19	21
23	SuperSonics	George Karl	4/23/1993	1-0	SEA	vs	LAL	W 122-93	1.000	240	122	47	27	12	6	48	88	54.5	2	7	28.6	24	31	77.4	60.0	10	37	17	29
24	SuperSonics	George Karl	11/6/1993	1-0	SEA	vs	LAL	W 129-101	1.000	240	129	46	39	11	5	54	88	61.4	5	9	55.6	16	24	66.7	65.4	16	30	19	23
25	SuperSonics	George Karl	12/29/1993	1-0	SEA	@	LAL	W 99-92	1.000	240	99	47	27	9	6	35	77	45.5	3	7	42.9	26	35	74.3	53.6	8	39	17	24
	Average								.506	241.1	105.0	42.1	24.7	9.4	4.6	39.5	84.3	46.8	4.9	14.4	34.0	21.1	28.0	75.4	54.3	12.7	29.4	15.1	23.6
	Total			45-44					.506	21,460	9,343	3,743	2,196	836	408	3,514	7,504	46.8	435	1,279	34.0	1,880	2,495	75.4	54.3	1,128	2,615	1,340	2,099

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3	Nuggets	54	28	.659	10.0
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2	Celtics - x	56	26	.683	4.0
3	Knicks - x	53	29	.646	7.0
4	Cavaliers - x	52	30	.634	8.0
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