Lakers jersey history No. 25 — Oliver Mack
Through the 2024-25 season, the Los Angeles Lakers have had a total of 506 players suit up for them, going back to their days in Minneapolis. Some were forgettable, some were serviceable, some were good and a select few were flat-out legendary.
During the Lakers’ 80th season of existence (they were founded back in 1946 as the Detroit Gems in the National Basketball League), LeBron Wire is taking a look at each player who has worn their jersey, whether it has been a purple and gold one or the ones they donned back in the Midwest during their early years.
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When people think of rookies on the 1979-80 Los Angeles Lakers, they obviously think of Magic Johnson. But there was another first-year player on that squad named Oliver Mack. He was taken in the second round of the 1979 NBA Draft out of East Carolina University, where he averaged 23 points a game over two seasons.
In his lone season with the Lakers, he averaged 4.7 points in 13.6 minutes a game. They traded him to the Chicago Bulls midway through that season, and he played for the Bulls and the Dallas Mavericks before his NBA career ended early in the 1981-82 campaign. Mack ended with NBA career averages of 7.2 points, 2.5 rebounds and 1.8 assists in 19.6 minutes a game.
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