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Here are a few players in Lakers history that rode the coattails of their teammates for the ultimate NBA prize. We lovingly call them 'Coat Titles.'

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" What I've enjoyed far more often Los Angeles Lakers. And I'm logged on foxsports.com. Am fortunate and we got a technically called code title. You know the expression writing it was coattails well -- titles when a player barely makes a mark on a team to get a championship ring at the end of the season. Think this year's NBA champion Lakers who have DJ Mbenga at a more and then you three players that we're seat filler on the bench. I don't look back at other Laker players that tag along the championship prize. First stop is -- lead number fifteen over my shoulder he was most outstanding player for the 1977. Final Four when he led Marquette the national championship. However and you with the Lakers. -- very. You played alongside magic Kareem in 1979 for only eleven games before he's injured he did however get a ring when LEV Philadelphia in the NBA finals. Next up is chuck -- the other awkward like -- screen. The seven foot five that are played nine NBA seasons but amazingly his minutes played equal less -- complete games. As a member of the 1985 champion Lakers gentle Giants scored twelve point total in the regular season. -- committed when he found. The good news is he never appeared in a terrible Billy Crystal movie. It is. Yet the Lakers back to back championships in 1987 and 1988 without her like -- Seven footer from Kenny averaged just over two point per game and I'm the Lakers. Numbers collected good for him that for the people who tried to pronounce his last name. John -- won two titles with the Pistons and is also a time coach Tyler. The first was in 1996 when he bought out his own contract with the Raptors we can sign with the bolstering their seventy he wins championships season. He promptly retired after the parade. And the Lakers started winning and he couldn't help himself. Coming out of retirement code title his way of elections first of three championships in 2000. Right problems are saying what. One sports championship rings with three different teams in three different decades and different millennium. Q what are playing next to the dynamic duo of Kobe Shaq in the NBA now playing on -- spent on on liberty give me out here. Feel like that guy who killed Patrick -- And finally in 2000 into the great shooting guard Mitch Richmond in his career. The big impact he made in the playoffs was -- for the finals when he dribbled out the clock as the Lakers completed the week of the net. He played a grand total form it's worth three points in the finals. Sacramento Kings did retire his number 8003. He's got that don't one that's going to do with the addition of coach titles I'm Chris Anderson we'll see you next time."

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