Popular Los Angeles Lakers players (Part 6)
Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Kareem Abdul Jabbar was not only a very successful basketball player but was among some of the popular players in the NBA.
The popularity of this player is widely known around the world and if you want to know how popular he is then there is no better place to go and visit rather than Los Angeles Lakers. There was a time when his house burnt down.
The Los Angeles Lakers players had a very unique place for jazz music in his heart and had loads of jazz music collections. However, when his house caught fire his music was all gone with it. The Los Angeles Lakers fans looking at this responded with sending
and bringing him countless jazz records so that the ones he lost those could be replacement. Certainly, he occupied a very special space in the hearts of the fans.
This was all due to the talent that the possessed which he was able to convert into some of the glorious basketball ever to be displayed at the Staples Arena. Kareem Abdul Jabbar ended up winning a total of six NBA championships out of which five were won
with the Los Angeles Lakers coupled with three Most Valued Player awards and one NBA Finals MVP award.
Kareem Abdul Jabbar served as a centre for the Los Angeles Lakers and dominated the game ever since he joined them after winning the championship crown with the Milwaukee Bucks which him come up with an absolutely wonderful performance. This wasn’t it as
he took his game to a new level after joining hands with the Los Angeles Lakers.
The individual and team success that he came across certainly makes him one of the widely known and popular players not only among the Lakers fans but all around the NBA world.
Shaquille O’Neal
One of the most dominating players in the NBA history and the Los Angeles makes Shaquille O’Neal a very popular personality among the Lakers fans.
Though the way that things ended for Shaquille O’Neal with the Los Angeles Lakers was by no means the way things should have ended after coming in conflict with Kobe Bryant. Anyhow, Shaquille O’Neal dominated game after game as the Los Angeles Lakers came
across a lot of success. Shaquille O’Neal might look to be a very angry man but in fact he is one of the kind hearted and very humorous players in the NBA which made him fan favourite.
He stayed with the Los Angeles Lakers for eight long years during which he won three consecutive titles in 2000, 2001 and 2002. This was another one of his special gift to the fans which made him even more special for the fans. Later, he joined Miami Heat
where he won another title in 2006. Currently, Shaq is in Boston Celtics but still is cherished by fans of Los Angeles Lakers as they speak of him as a legendary player who changed things for Los Angeles Lakers with the start of the new century.
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