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The Lakers organist is playing Star Wars music all night in honor of The Force Awakens

If you've watched sports this week, you've probably seen just about every team do some sort of a tie-in with Star Wars. Every team has come up with some nice twists to make their promotions their own, but the Lakers' may have done it best by getting their organist, the great Dieter Ruehle, to play Star Wars music during their game on Thursday with the Rockets.

For some reason, playing the Cantina theme from Star Wars seems like the perfect music to play during Lakers game. This is probably just a one-time thing, but really, they should play it every game. It just feels so right.

Ruehle also played Duel of Fates:

Anything is better than listening to Jar Jar Binks sound effects, but this was very well done.

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