Should the Lakers retire Shaq's jersey?

by **Amphatoast** on Fri Jun 24, 2005 6:03 pm

Sit wrote:Should the NBA retire number 23???

And Shaq will retire his jersey in LA... He has said how much he loves LA... I think!

poor LeBron if they retire 23 :lol:

they have to retire it to show respect to shaq.

by **galvatron3000** on Sat Jun 25, 2005 1:17 am

Shaq was at his best in LA and if they do he should accept just to give the LA fans a chance to say thanks regardless of what happened with you and ownership. He was by far his best as a Laker.

by **John WB** on Sat Jun 25, 2005 1:40 am

I think they should retire it in LA, but not in Orlando.

by **Cu/Clux/Clan** on Sat Jun 25, 2005 1:48 am

i think no cause if they retire jersey,kobe says'i want retire jersey'and ...it continues

by **TheFranchiseKing** on Sat Jun 25, 2005 3:42 am

Andrew wrote:
magadag25 wrote:they must of been drunk when they decided to retire mj's jersey

It was a bit strange, certainly unprecedented in the NBA. But it's been done before in the NHL, or so I understand.

Yes the actual league retired Wayne G's number 99. I think Stern should have done the same for MJ. This prevents anyone else from wearing 23. It's too late now since many good players Lebron, JRich... wear 23.
The guy made the league what it is. Same as Wayne did for the NHL.

Of the topic, I was on an airplane the other day and I was sitting next to a few kids. Maybe 10 or 12 years old. They had never seen MJ play.
How nuts is that?

by **cyanide** on Sat Jun 25, 2005 4:34 am

Yes, simply because he played most of his career there, and he brought the Lakers to some championships and a "dynasty" tag.

by **Jackal** on Sat Jun 25, 2005 11:30 am

Ofcourse they should. He (along with Bryant and a great supporting cast) brought LA 3 championships. He received Finals MVP's in all three of them and even got a normal MVP during his stint with LA. I'd be appalled if they didn't retire it.

by **Indy** on Sat Jun 25, 2005 11:59 am

I think they will because all this rivalry schoolgirl shit he has with them will die down after a while, and he will be remembered there for winning 3 rings and the MVP. #34 will be retired in LA.

by **frAn** on Sat Jun 25, 2005 12:32 pm

i think Yes, becuase he was the real reason why the lakers won 3 championships in a row. and also, he won his first ring there..

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Sat Jun 25, 2005 12:41 pm

TheFranchiseKing wrote:Of the topic, I was on an airplane the other day and I was sitting next to a few kids. Maybe 10 or 12 years old. They had never seen MJ play.
How nuts is that?

It's starting to get that way though. It's heading towards being a decade since Michael Jordan was in his prime, playing for the Bulls.

Thanks for the confirmation about Gretzky, I was sure I'd heard his #99 had been retired by the league.

by **Drex** on Sat Jun 25, 2005 1:08 pm

What will happen if the NBA teams has no numbers left? The Celtics have like 16 retired jerseys...

by **zmac** on Sat Jun 25, 2005 1:10 pm

Drex wrote:What will happen if the NBA teams has no numbers left? The Celtics have like 16 retired jerseys...

Yeh ive always wondered that....
maybe they will start wearing 100-999 numbers and then in another 100 years 1000-9999 numbers and so on.....

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Sat Jun 25, 2005 1:20 pm

Perhaps special provisions will be made. I'm pretty sure the Celtics have retired at least one jersey in honour of two players, Dave Cowens being one of them.

by **Amphatoast** on Sat Jun 25, 2005 2:31 pm

the funny thing is no one really weats the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s jersey numbers ( except rodman/artest)

by **tsherkin** on Sat Jun 25, 2005 2:45 pm

Amphatoast wrote:the funny thing is no one really weats the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s jersey numbers ( except rodman/artest)

It's not that they don't want them, it's that certain numbers are generally disallowed by the league because of the number of fingers a ref can use to show a player's jersey number.

by **cyanide** on Sat Jun 25, 2005 3:26 pm

tsherkin wrote:
Amphatoast wrote:the funny thing is no one really weats the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s jersey numbers ( except rodman/artest)

It's not that they don't want them, it's that certain numbers are generally disallowed by the league because of the number of fingers a ref can use to show a player's jersey number.

Interesting. Didn't know that. I thought it was tradition to use common numbers.

by **Jackal_** on Sat Jun 25, 2005 3:55 pm

Ostertag number "00" :lol:

The whole thing with players not being allowed to wear the numbers that have been retired is a good idea.. although you have to remember that not many Jerseys are retired... like if you look around in the arenas you wont see that many.. so its still gonna be a long time till we have to worry about chosing numbers

by **Amphatoast** on Sat Jun 25, 2005 3:59 pm

tsherkin wrote:
Amphatoast wrote:the funny thing is no one really weats the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s jersey numbers ( except rodman/artest)

It's not that they don't want them, it's that certain numbers are generally disallowed by the league because of the number of fingers a ref can use to show a player's jersey number.

never knew that, thanks for the info (Y)

by **Cloudy** on Sat Jun 25, 2005 7:02 pm

lol! So every team should retire Bradley's for thanking him for all those dunk-on in-your-face posters... :lol:

by **Fresh8** on Sat Jun 25, 2005 10:36 pm

Well, eventually they will have to let someone wear 69...

by **Do'** on Sun Jun 26, 2005 2:09 am

yes of course...!!!!!

by **Micchy_boy** on Sun Jun 26, 2005 3:17 am

I will definitely a BIG HELL YES....
He have done so much for the Lakers organization.... Maybe at the moment we saw bitterness between the 2 parties but i hope when time comes and Shaq retires, they will sort their difference and retire the no.34.

As a Lakers fan, I will be the first to be ashame of the Lakers if they will not retire it or even offer Shaq in retiring his jersey.

about the retiring of MJ's number in Heat it was a classy move by Riley and the Heat org.

by **LethalWeaponCB4** on Sun Jun 26, 2005 10:36 am

Should they is one thing, doing it is a whole different story. I dont think they will.

by **J@3** on Sun Jun 26, 2005 4:25 pm

I think they should wait until both Kobe and Shaq are retired and retire their jerseys at the same time :mrgreen:

by **Jackal_** on Sun Jun 26, 2005 4:31 pm

LethalWeaponCB4 wrote:Should they is one thing, doing it is a whole different story. I dont think they will.

Hmm..and why is that?

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