Los Angeles Lakers all-time roster
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The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Lakers' franchise was founded in 1946 in Detroit, Michigan, as the Detroit Gems in the National Basketball League (NBL) before moving the following season to Minneapolis, Minnesota,[1][2] where the team got its official title from the state's nickname, "Land of 10,000 Lakes".[3] It won the NBL championship during its first year in Minnesota but moved to the rival Basketball Association of America (BAA) the following season where it won the league championship. Following the merger of the NBL and BAA to form the NBA, the Minneapolis Lakers won four NBA Finals before relocating to Los Angeles in the 1960–61 NBA season, becoming the first West Coast team in league history.[4] In the 1960s, the Lakers reached the NBA Finals six times, but lost every series to the Boston Celtics, beginning their long and storied rivalry.[5] In 1972, with future Hall of Famers Wilt Chamberlain, Gail Goodrich, and Jerry West, the Lakers compiled a 33-game winning streak, the longest streak in U.S. professional team sports, and won their sixth title under coach Bill Sharman.[6] The Lakers' popularity soared in the 1980s when they won five additional championships during a nine-year span with the help of Hall of Famers Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Worthy and coach Pat Riley, the franchise's all-time leader in both regular season and playoff games coached and wins.[7][8] Two of those championships during that span were against their arch-rivals, the Boston Celtics. With the team of Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant and Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson, the Lakers played in four of the first five NBA Finals of the 21st century; winning three consecutively from 2000 to 2002, and losing the fourth in 2004. The Lakers would then conclude the decade with three straight Finals appearances; losing to the Boston Celtics in 2008 but then prevailing with back-to-back championships against the Orlando Magic in 2009 and the Boston Celtics in 2010. The 2010 championship marks the 16th NBA championship in Lakers franchise history. The Lakers would claim their first championship led by LeBron James and Anthony Davis in 2020 after defeating the Miami Heat, marking the 17th and tying the Celtics.
BAA and NBA
This list is composed of players who played at least one BAA or NBA game for the Lakers franchise. Note: Statistics are correct through the end of the 2025–26 season.
| G | Guard | G/F | Guard-forward | F | Forward | F/C | Forward-center | C | Center |
| ^ | Denotes player who has been inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |
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| * | Denotes player who has been selected for at least one All-Star Game with the Los Angeles Lakers and is currently on the team roster |
| + | Denotes player who has been selected for at least one All-Star Game with the Los Angeles Lakers |
| x | Denotes player who is currently on the Los Angeles Lakers roster |
| 0.0 | Denotes the Los Angeles Lakers statistics leader (min. 100 games played for the team for per-game statistics) |
A to B
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D to E
F to G
H
I to J
K to L
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N to P
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T to Z
NBL
This list is composed of players who played at least one NBL game for the franchise.
| Player | Pos. | College team | Yrs | Seasons | Statistics | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | PTS | PPG | ||||||
| Dave Latter | C-F | N/A | 1 | 1946–1947 | 43 | 321 | 7.8 | [525] |
| Fred Campbell | G | Southern Illinois | 1 | 1946–1947 | 39 | 268 | 6.8 | [525] |
| Eddie Parry | F-G | N/A | 1 | 1946–1947 | 34 | 235 | 6.9 | [525] |
| Del Loranger | F-G | N/A | 1 | 1946–1947 | 27 | 233 | 8.6 | [525] |
| Tom Meyer | F-C | N/A | 1 | 1946–1947 | 24 | 188 | 7.8 | [525] |
| Paul Juntunen | G-F | Wayne State | 1 | 1946–1947 | 43 | 178 | 4.1 | [525] |
| Herb Scheffler | C-F | Illinois / Oklahoma | 1 | 1946–1947 | 33 | 126 | 3.8 | [525] |
| Howie McCarty | F-G | Wayne State | 1 | 1946–1947 | 16 | 121 | 7.6 | [525] |
| Wilbert King | G | N/A | 1 | 1946–1947 | 14 | 115 | 8.2 | [525] |
| Bob Dykstra | C | Simpson | 1 | 1946–1947 | 14 | 58 | 4.1 | [525] |
| Vaughn Waddell | G | N/A | 1 | 1946–1947 | 8 | 25 | 3.1 | [525] |
| Chuck Hawley | G-F | N/A | 1 | 1946–1947 | 12 | 17 | 1.4 | [525] |
| Frank Sabo | G | Wayne State | 1 | 1946–1947 | 3 | 16 | 5.3 | [525] |
| Charles Perry | G | Tuskegee | 1 | 1946–1947 | 5 | 15 | 3.0 | [525] |
| Pat Rooney | F-G | N/A | 1 | 1946–1947 | 5 | 11 | 2.2 | [525] |
| Frank Mekules | F | Michigan State | 1 | 1946–1947 | 3 | 6 | 2.0 | [525] |
| Walt Czarnecki | F | Detroti Mercy | 1 | 1946–1947 | 4 | 5 | 1.3 | [525] |
| Curt Henderson | G | N/A | 1 | 1946–1947 | 4 | 4 | 1.0 | [525] |
| George Mikan | C | DePaul | 1 | 1947–1948 | 56 | 1,195 | 21.3 | [526] |
| Jim Pollard | F-C | Stanford | 1 | 1947–1948 | 59 | 760 | 12.9 | [526] |
| Don Carlson | G-F | Minnesota | 1 | 1947–1948 | 58 | 475 | 8.2 | [526] |
| Jack Dwan | F-G | Loyola Chicago | 1 | 1947–1948 | 55 | 306 | 5.6 | [526] |
| Herm Schaefer | G-F | Indiana | 1 | 1947–1948 | 54 | 288 | 5.3 | [526] |
| Tony Jaros | F-G | Minnesota | 1 | 1947–1948 | 58 | 273 | 4.7 | [526] |
| Don Smith | G-F | Minnesota | 1 | 1947–1948 | 57 | 200 | 3.5 | [526] |
| Paul Napolitano | F-G | San Francisco | 1 | 1947–1948 | 52 | 155 | 3.0 | [526] |
| Johnny Jorgensen | G-F | N/A | 1 | 1947–1948 | 38 | 101 | 2.7 | [526] |
| Bill Durkee | G-F | California | 1 | 1947–1948 | 23 | 41 | 1.8 | [526] |
| Bob Gerber | C-F | Toledo | 1 | 1947–1948 | 15 | 36 | 2.4 | [526] |
| Ken Exel | G | Minnesota | 1 | 1947–1948 | 5 | 4 | 0.8 | [526] |
| Joe Patanelli | F | N/A | 1 | 1947–1948 | 5 | 4 | 0.8 | [526] |
| Jack Rocker | C-F | California | 1 | 1947–1948 | 5 | 4 | 0.8 | [526] |
| Warren Ajax | F-C | Minnesota | 1 | 1947–1948 | 3 | 1 | 0.3 | [526] |
| Ted Cook | G | Tennessee | 1 | 1947–1948 | 2 | 0 | 0.0 | [526] |