Los Angeles Lakers Players

Order by the year each player joined the Los Angeles Lakers. You place all 52 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

Los Angeles Lakers Players
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Order by the year each player joined the Los Angeles Lakers. Drag or tap it onto the line
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Los Angeles Lakers
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Lives per run
release years and dates
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How to play the Lakers roster timeline game

Here you rebuild the Lakers' family tree one arrival at a time. Each card names a player and the position he played, and your job is to sort them by the year each one first joined the franchise. One player is already on the line with his year showing. Slot every new card into the gap that fits. A good call reveals the year, while a bad one still drops the player into his real spot and costs one of your three lives.

The deck goes back to the franchise's Minneapolis beginnings, long before Hollywood, and comes all the way forward to the current roster. Its most crowded stretches are the dynasty runs, when stars and role players arrived close together. Every card prints a position, but every era had its big men and ball handlers, so treat the label as flavor rather than evidence. Veterans who came over late in their careers are the usual trap, since their fame was built somewhere else.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 52 cards you might be dealt, with 24 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • George Mikan center
  • Jim Pollard power forward
  • Dick Garmaker shooting guard
  • Rudy LaRusso power forward
  • Leroy Ellis center
  • Gail Goodrich point guard
  • Happy Hairston small forward
  • Kermit Washington power forward
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar center
  • Jamaal Wilkes small forward
  • Magic Johnson point guard
  • Bob McAdoo center
  • Byron Scott shooting guard
  • Vlade Divac center
  • Nick Van Exel point guard
  • Eddie Jones shooting guard
  • Shaquille O'Neal center
  • Robert Horry small forward
  • Luke Walton small forward
  • Andrew Bynum center
  • Metta World Peace small forward
  • Jodie Meeks shooting guard
  • Nick Young shooting guard
  • D'Angelo Russell point guard
  • Larry Nance Jr. small forward
  • Kyle Kuzma power forward
  • Anthony Davis center
  • Russell Westbrook point guard

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