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The Coachella Valley Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Thousand Palms, California, that competes in the NBA G League. Founded in 2006 as the Los Angeles D-Fenders, the team is owned by the Los Angeles Lakers, who were the first National Basketball Association (NBA) franchise to own a D-League team. The team was renamed to the South Bay Lakers for its metro region after the 2016–17 D-League season, when it moved home games from the Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo to the nearby UCLA Health Training Center, a new practice facility for the Los Angeles Lakers. After the 2025–26 NBA G League season, the team was relocated to Coachella Valley and renamed the Coachella Valley Lakers. Their home games were moved to the Acrisure Arena in Thousand Palms.
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