If you've been reading this blog for the past ten years two things I tend to complain about on the regular is the foolishness of choosing that the best way to honor Celtics is by preventing future players from ever wearing the same jersey number and that the Los Angeles Lakers shouldn't claim 16 NBA titles.
The Celtics have an unbelievable twenty-two numbers retired, which is the reason that practically every player that comes to Boston can't keep his number or has to pick weird numbers like 27, 36 or 99.
All of the Lakers retired numbers are for either the 1972 championship team (Wilt Chamberlain (13), Elgin Baylor (22), Gail Goodrich (25), and Jerry West (44), the Showtime 1980's Lakers (Magic Johnson (32), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (33), James Worthy (42), and Jamaal Wilkes (52), and then the 2000's Shaquille O'Neal (34) and Kobe Bryant (8) and (24).