Car Rental Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Lakers

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Did you know:

• The Lakers are known for having (at the end of the 2004 – 2005 season):
• The highest number of wins (more than 2,600)
• The highest winning percentage (nearly 62 per cent)
• The most number of final appearances (28)
• The second most championships (14)
• The record for the most number of consecutive wins in a season (33)

Here are some players that have accomplished some high achievements. Acelax.com car rental los angeles provides the Basketball Hall of Famers:

• 11 Bob McAdoo
• 13 Wilt Chamberlain
• 17 Jim Pollard (Minneapolis)
• 19 Vern Mikkelsen (Minneapolis)
• 22 Slater Martin (Minneapolis)
• 22 Elgin Baylor (Minneapolis-Los Angeles)
• 25 Gail Goodrich
• 32 Magic Johnson
• 33 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• 34 Clyde Lovellette (Minneapolis)
• 42 Connie Hawkins
• 42 James Worthy
• 44 Jerry West
• 99 George Mikan (Minneapolis)

Also Acelax.com car rental los angeles names some other notable players

• Happy Hairston
• Jamaal Wilkes
• Norm Nixon
• Michael Cooper
• Byron Scott
• A.C. Green
• Shaquille O'Neal
• Karl Malone
• Gary Payton
• Robert Horry
• Derek Fisher
• Rick Fox
• Vlade Divac
• Dennis Rodman
• Glen Rice
• Eddie Jones

Retired numbers

• 13 Wilt Chamberlain
• 22 Elgin Baylor
• 25 Gail Goodrich
• 32 Magic Johnson
• 33 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• 42 James Worthy
• 44 Jerry West (Nov. 19, 1983)

Microphone Chick Hearn was retired. For the entire 42-year Lakers’ history in Los Angeles, Hearn provided play-by-plays. In total the announcer called 3,338 consecutive Lakers games, died at the age of 85.

Coaches and others

• Chick Hearn (broadcaster; Basketball Hall of Famer)
• Bill Sharman (Basketball Hall of Famer; enshrined both for his playing career with the Boston Celtics and as a coach)
• John Kundla (Hall of Fame coach during Minneapolis years)
• Jerry Buss owner since 1979. Buss bought the LA Lakers and Great Western Forum from Jack Kent Cooke.
• Pat Riley Head Coach from 1981-91. Under this head coach, the Lakers won four titles and accumulated a 0.733 regular season win percentage.
• Phil Jackson Head Coach won three consecutive NBA titles on three different occasions, once with the Lakers.
• Rudy Tomjanovich Head Coach in 2004, resigned February 2.

Facts about the Los Angeles Lakers

Acelax.com car rental los angeles asks if you knew:

• The Lakers were originally based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• The team name is based on the state’s slogan “Land of 10,000 Lakes.”
• The official team uniform colors are royal purple and gold.
• Staples Center is the home to the Lakers.

Before the Minneapolis Lakers joined the National Basketball League (NBL) in 1947, the Lakers were leaders in their league. Some of the superstars the Lakers have had on their team includes:

• George Mikan
• Wilt Chamberlain
• Elgin Baylor
• Jerry West
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• James Worthy
• Magic Johnson
• Shaquille O’Neal
• Kobe Bryant

George Mikan, the Lakers’ first in a long line of legendary basketball greats, will be remembered. He passed away in June 2005. He led the Lakers to five of the NBA’s six championships during the team’s early years. Mikan ranks as one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history.

Tributes paid to Mikan

"George Mikan’s legacy is that he gave the professional game a jump-start.”
-- Dolph Schayes, Hall of Famer, one of the NBA's 50 Greatest Players

"The game lost one of its greats. … He is a person that has touched my heart in many ways. Seeing him as a great legend and knowing the things he has done for this game, it was precious for to me to meet him … “
-- Scottie Pippen, one of the NBA's 50 Greatest Players

“If it wasn’t for him and what he started to create in big guys, maybe there would not have been a Wilt Chamberlain or a Bill Russell or a Willis Reed."
-- Willis Reed, Hall of Famer and one of the NBA's 50 Greatest Players