Having won five championships in his storied 20-year career with the Lakers, many consider the late, great Kobe Bryant to be the greatest Laker of all time. An 18-time All-Star, 15-time All-NBA team member, 12-time All-Defensive team member, two-time scoring champ, two-time Finals MVP, four-time All-Star MVP, and one-time season MVP, nobody embodies the Laker spirit quite like the Black Mamba.
Magic Johnson, who also served as a team executive for a couple of years, is another all-time Laker great. Like Kobe, Magic won five championships with the Purple & Gold, leading the way for one of, if not the, greatest era in franchise history in the '80s as the Showtime Lakers.
Along with Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is another L.A. legend that dominated the league during the 1980s. In 14 seasons with the Lakers, the six-time MVP averaged 22.1 points, 9.4 rebounds, 3.3 assists, and 2.5 blocks.
We round out our Top 5 with two more big men that are easily a couple of the greatest centers this league has ever seen. Wilt Chamberlain terrorized the league with the Lakers during the early '70s, while Shaquille O'Neal played alongside Kobe in their historic three-peat from 2000 and 2002.