how many finals did the lakers go to in the 80s

The Los Angeles Lakers had 8 appearances in the NBA Finals between the 1979-80 and 1988-89 seasons.

	TEAM	DATE	SEASON	SERIES	TM		OPP	RESULT	MIN	PTS	REB	AST	STL	BLK	FGM	FGA	FG%	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	TS%	OREB	DREB	TOV	PF
1	Lakers	5/4/1980	1979-80	NBA Finals	LAL	vs	PHI	W 109-102	240	109	43	30	5	9	48	89	53.9	0	0		13	15	86.7	57.0	12	31	17	24
2	Lakers	5/7/1980	1979-80	NBA Finals	LAL	vs	PHI	L 104-107	240	104	52	32	12	7	48	95	50.5	0	1	0.0	8	12	66.7	51.9	15	37	26	27
3	Lakers	5/10/1980	1979-80	NBA Finals	LAL	@	PHI	W 111-101	240	111	56	20	5	5	44	92	47.8	0	1	0.0	23	30	76.7	52.8	22	34	20	25
4	Lakers	5/11/1980	1979-80	NBA Finals	LAL	@	PHI	L 102-105	240	102	49	23	12	6	44	93	47.3	0	0		14	19	73.7	50.3	18	31	19	22
5	Lakers	5/14/1980	1979-80	NBA Finals	LAL	vs	PHI	W 108-103	240	108	56	28	7	6	41	91	45.1	0	0		26	33	78.8	51.2	19	37	21	27
6	Lakers	5/16/1980	1979-80	NBA Finals	LAL	@	PHI	W 123-107	240	123	52	27	14	4	45	92	48.9	0	2	0.0	33	35	94.3	57.3	17	35	17	22
7	Lakers	5/27/1982	1981-82	NBA Finals	LAL	@	PHI	W 124-117	240	124	50	34	11	7	49	93	52.7	0	0		26	35	74.3	57.2	19	31	22	26
8	Lakers	5/30/1982	1981-82	NBA Finals	LAL	@	PHI	L 94-110	240	94	39	25	11	6	35	83	42.2	0	5	0.0	24	37	64.9	47.3	17	22	18	21
9	Lakers	6/1/1982	1981-82	NBA Finals	LAL	vs	PHI	W 129-108	240	129	48	30	15	5	50	91	54.9	1	1	100.0	28	47	59.6	57.8	17	31	18	30
10	Lakers	6/3/1982	1981-82	NBA Finals	LAL	vs	PHI	W 111-101	240	111	49	35	10	4	45	97	46.4	0	1	0.0	21	29	72.4	50.6	16	33	12	21
11	Lakers	6/6/1982	1981-82	NBA Finals	LAL	@	PHI	L 102-135	240	102	49	31	5	9	47	100	47.0	0	2	0.0	8	16	50.0	47.6	26	23	24	29
12	Lakers	6/8/1982	1981-82	NBA Finals	LAL	vs	PHI	W 114-104	240	114	49	33	12	11	47	87	54.0	0	0		20	25	80.0	58.2	15	34	22	26
13	Lakers	5/22/1983	1982-83	NBA Finals	LAL	@	PHI	L 107-113	240	107	47	20	7	8	44	96	45.8	0	2	0.0	19	26	73.1	49.8	16	31	15	29
14	Lakers	5/26/1983	1982-83	NBA Finals	LAL	@	PHI	L 93-103	240	93	40	26	10	10	44	91	48.4	2	7	28.6	3	5	60.0	49.9	14	26	20	29
15	Lakers	5/29/1983	1982-83	NBA Finals	LAL	vs	PHI	L 94-111	240	94	41	26	12	8	34	82	41.5	0	3	0.0	26	31	83.9	49.1	15	26	25	31
16	Lakers	5/31/1983	1982-83	NBA Finals	LAL	vs	PHI	L 108-115	240	108	43	26	7	3	41	92	44.6	1	3	33.3	25	31	80.6	51.1	16	27	20	31
17	Lakers	5/27/1984	1983-84	NBA Finals	LAL	@	BOS	W 115-109	240	115	42	25	10	4	43	83	51.8	1	2	50.0	28	32	87.5	59.2	12	30	16	30
18	Lakers	5/31/1984	1983-84	NBA Finals	LAL	@	BOS	L 121-124	265	121	41	27	8	7	48	84	57.1	0	2	0.0	25	35	71.4	60.9	9	32	25	33
19	Lakers	6/3/1984	1983-84	NBA Finals	LAL	vs	BOS	W 137-104	240	137	63	36	7	6	53	103	51.5	0	1	0.0	31	44	70.5	56.0	22	41	10	27
20	Lakers	6/6/1984	1983-84	NBA Finals	LAL	vs	BOS	L 125-129	265	125	46	31	8	5	50	85	58.8	0	0		25	39	64.1	61.2	12	34	20	27
21	Lakers	6/8/1984	1983-84	NBA Finals	LAL	@	BOS	L 103-121	240	103	37	20	8	8	39	91	42.9	2	3	66.7	23	35	65.7	48.4	13	24	14	29
22	Lakers	6/10/1984	1983-84	NBA Finals	LAL	vs	BOS	W 119-108	240	119	44	31	9	3	53	105	50.5	1	2	50.0	12	17	70.6	52.9	19	25	14	28
23	Lakers	6/12/1984	1983-84	NBA Finals	LAL	@	BOS	L 102-111	240	102	33	28	9	8	41	84	48.8	2	8	25.0	18	28	64.3	52.9	9	24	17	32
24	Lakers	5/27/1985	1984-85	NBA Finals	LAL	@	BOS	L 114-148	240	114	35	28	9	4	49	100	49.0	2	5	40.0	14	21	66.7	52.2	8	27	12	23
25	Lakers	5/30/1985	1984-85	NBA Finals	LAL	@	BOS	W 109-102	240	109	49	31	9	5	44	92	47.8	1	2	50.0	20	29	69.0	52.0	14	35	16	32
	Average			0.2					241.1	109.6	42.9	27.3	8.3	5.3	43.1	87.5	49.2	1.2	4.2	29.5	22.1	30.0	73.8	54.4	13.7	29.2	15.5	25.6
	Total			8					11,090	5,041	1,975	1,254	380	245	1,983	4,027	49.2	57	193	29.5	1,018	1,380	73.8	54.4	632	1,343	713	1,179