Twenty years ago, March 2006, Adam Morrison executed his own celebratory leap onto the scorer’s table before surfing back onto the court on the shoulders of surging Zag zealots.

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 ...

Editor’s note: Earlier this year, The Athletic looked back at the best of men’s college basketball over the first 25 years of the 2000s. Today’s story looks at the best players of the past quarter ...