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Wilt Chamberlain

Retired on November 9, 1983 in honor of Wilt Chamberlain, a member of the 1971-72 championship team that won an NBA record 33 consecutive games and a then-NBA record 69 contests overall (averaged 14.8 points and team-leading 19.2 rebounds that season)
Named Most Valuable Player of the 1972 NBA Finals, when he averaged 14.7 points and 21.0 rebounds
Led the NBA in rebounding on 11 occasions, including four times with the Lakers
Averaged a Los Angeles franchise record 21.1 rebounds during the 1968-69 campaign and averaged over 18 boards four times with the Lakers
Appeared in 13 NBA All-Star Games
Entered the NBA Hall of Fame in 1978
Averaged an NBA record 50.4 points during the 1961-62 campaign
Scored 50-plus points on 118 occasions
Led the NBA in both scoring and rebounding (same season) on five occasions
Earned NBA Most Valuable Player honors four times
Was named one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history during the league's 50th anniversary season in 1996-97
Ranks first overall on the club's field goal percentage list (.605)

Elgin Baylor

Retired on November 9, 1983 in honor of Elgin Baylor who ranks among all-time franchise leaders in numerous categories including rebounds (1st, 11,463), points (3rd, 23,149) and assists (6th, 3,650)
Scored a then single-game Los Angeles franchise record 71 points on November 15, 1960 @ New York
11-time NBA All-Star
Co-All-Star Game MVP in 1959
Member of the All-NBA First Team on 10 occasions
Named NBA Rookie of the Year in 1959
Scored an NBA Finals record 61 points on April 14, 1962 @ Boston
Inducted in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1976
Averaged over 30.0 points and 14.0 rebounds (in the same season) three times during his career
Paced the Lakers in rebounding a club-record seven consecutive seasons (1958-59 thru 1964-65)
Averaged a franchise record 38.3 points during the 1961-62 campaign
Led the Lakers in scoring six different seasons, including three straight years 1958-59 through 1960-61 (24.9, 29.6, 34.8)
Averaged 27.4 points and 13.5 rebounds in 846 games overall during his career
Was named one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history during the league's 50th anniversary season in 1996-97.

Gail Goodrich

Retired on November 20, 1996 in honor of Gail Goodrich who ranks among all-time club leaders in several categories, including total points (6th, 13,044), assists (7th, 2,863), free throws made (7th, 2,830) and games played (9th, 687)
Holds the Los Angeles franchise record for consecutive free throws made (40 on two different occasions)
Was a member of the Lakers' 1971-72 NBA Championship team that won an all-time professional sports record 33 consecutive games
Member of the All-NBA First Team in 1973-74
Led the Lakers in scoring four consecutive seasons (1971-72 thru 1974-75), joining Jerry West and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the only players to accomplish this feat
Was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1996
Appeared in four consecutive All-Star Games during his tenure with the Lakers (1972, 1973, 1974, 1975).

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Retired on March 20, 1989 in honor of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA's all-time leading scorer (38,387)
Led Los Angeles in scoring a club-record 11 consecutive seasons (1975-76 thru 1985-86)
Averaged 20-plus points each of his first 17 years in the NBA and in double figures each of his 20 campaigns
Ranks among NBA all-time leaders in numerous other categories, including rebounds (4th, 17,440) and blocked shots (2nd, 3,189)
Member of six NBA championship teams (five with the Lakers, one with Milwaukee)
Earned NBA Most Valuable Player honors six times (most in NBA history)
Scored in double figures in an NBA record 787 consecutive games 12/4/77 thru 12/2/87
Named NBA Rookie of the Year in 1970
Named Most Valuable Player of the NBA Finals twice (1971, 1985)
Member of the All-NBA First Team 10 times
Selected to play in 19 NBA All-Star Games
Selected to the NBA's All-Defensive First Team on five occasions
Led the NBA in blocked shots four times
Was named one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history during the league's 50th anniversary season in 1996-97.

Magic Johnson

Retired on February 16, 1992 in honor of Earvin "Magic" Johnson who ranks second on the NBA's all-time assist chart (10,141), trailing only John Stockton
Led the NBA in assists five consecutive seasons (1982-83 thru 1986-87), highlighted by a career-high and single-season club record of 13.1 during the 1983-84 campaign
Handed out a team single-game record 24 assists three times, including once during the playoffs (NBA playoff record)
Selected first overall by the Lakers in the 1979 NBA Draft
Registered 138 career triple doubles
Member of five NBA championship teams with the Lakers (1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988)
Appeared in nine NBA Finals druing his 13-year career
Lakers averaged 59 victories per season during his career
Named NBA's Most Valuable Player on three times (1980, 1982, 1987)
Earned All-NBA First Team honors nine times
12-time NBA All-Star s
Named All-Star Game MVP on two occasions (1990, 1992)
Led the NBA in free throw percentage in 1988-99 (.911)
Paced the NBA in steals twice (1981 and 1982)

Was named one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history during the league's 50th anniversary season in 1996-97

Shaquille O'Neal

Retired on April 2, 2013 in honor of Shaquille O’Neal, who helped lead the Lakers to three straight NBA championships from 2000-02
Ranks among the NBA’s all-time league leaders in points (6th, 28,596), (14th, 13,099), blocks (8th, 2,732) and field goal percentage (3rd, 58.2)
Led the Lakers in scoring five seasons, including a career-best 29.7 points per game in 1999-00 when he won the NBA scoring title
Ranks among the franchise leaders in points (7th, 5,462), rebounds (6th, 6,090), blocks (2nd, 1,278) and field goal percentage (2nd, 57.5)
Led the league in field goal percentage 10 times
15-time NBA All-Star
Eight-time NBA All-First Team
Named the league’s MVP in 2000
Three-time NBA All-Star Game MVP
1993 NBA Rookie of the Year
One of six Lakers to score 60-plus points in a game (Kobe Bryant, Elgin Baylor, Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West, George Mikan)
Was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA history during the league’s 50th anniversary season in 1996-97.

Jerry West

Retired on November 19, 1983 in honor of Jerry West whose career scoring average (27.0) ranks fourth all-time in NBA history
Playoff scoring average (29.1) ranks second all-time in NBA annals, trailing only Michael Jordan
Lakers' all-time leading scorer (25,192)
Led the Lakers in scoring seven different seasons, highlighted by a career-best 31.3 during the 1965-66 campaign
Member of the All-NBA First Team on 10 occasions
Member of the NBA's All-Defensive First Team four times
Member of the Lakers' 1972 NBA championship team
Named Most Valuable Player of the 1969 NBA Finals
Established an NBA record by scoring 20-plus points in 25 consecutive NBA Finals games (since broken by Michael Jordan)
Holds the NBA record for most free throws made in a single season (840 in 1965-66)
Holds the NBA record for highest scoring average in a single playoff series (46.3 in 1965 six-game series vs. Baltimore)
Was the first-ever draft choice in L.A. Lakers history (second pick overall in the 1960 NBA Draft)

Led the NBA in assists during the 1971-72 campaign (9.7)

Inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1979

14-year NBA veteran (all with the Lakers)

Was named one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history during the league's 50th anniversary season in 1996-97.

James Worthy

Retired on December 10, 1995 in honor of James Worthy who was named Most Valuable Player of the 1988 NBA Finals (22.0 points, 7.4 rebounds, 4.4 assists)
Registered a triple-double in Game 7 of the 1988 NBA Finals (36 points, 16 rebounds, 10 assists)
Was the first overall pick in the 1982 NBA Draft
seven-time NBA All-Star
averaged 20-plus points on four occasions
led the Lakers in scoring two consecutive seasons (1990-91 and 1991-92)
ranks among all-time Los Angeles franchise leaders in several categories, including scoring (5th, 16,320), steals (2nd, 1,041) and field goal percentage (6th, .521)
averaged 21.1 points in 143 career playoff games (.544 FG%)
memeber of the All-NBA Third Team on two occasions
field goal percentage eclipsed .530 each of his first eight seasons in the NBA

12-year NBA veteran (all with the Lakers)

was named one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history during the league's 50th anniversary season in 1996-97