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Los Angeles Lakers retired jerseys hanging inside the Staples Center, January 2013. As a way to honor key contributors including players, coaches, fans, broadcasters and announcers, National Basketball Association (NBA) teams often retire their jersey numbers, win totals or microphones.
Some of the Cal Golden Bears retired numbers hanging on the rafters at Haas Pavilion, September 2009. Teams in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) retire jersey numbers of players who either are considered by the team to have made significant contributions to that team's success, or who have experienced untimely deaths during their playing career.
Numbers retired by the Detroit Red Wings of the NHL, displayed at the former Joe Louis Arena in December 2015. Retiring the number of an athlete is an honor a team bestows upon a player, usually after the player has left the team, retires from the sport, or dies, by taking the number formerly worn on their uniform out of circulation.
The men's college basketball program of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) was founded in 1920 and is known competitively as the UCLA Bruins.The Bruins have won 11 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I national championships, the most of any school. [1]
National Basketball Association players with retired numbers. Pages in category "NBA players with retired numbers" ... Fred Brown (basketball) Roger Brown (basketball ...
The only retired USC women’s basketball numbers are Martha Parker’s 13, Shannon Johnson’s 14 and Sheila Foster’s 53. They can no longer be worn.
Retired and honored jerseys hanging from the rafters at Dean E. Smith Center. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill men's basketball program honors fifty-one former players by hanging their jerseys in the rafters of the Dean E. Smith Center, the home to the men's basketball team on the university's campus.
Basketball is one of the most followed, most-watched, and most popular sports in America and globally. ... Shaquille O'Neal retired from a long and successful b-ball career in 2011 and has since ...