My Favorite Basketball Team and Idol #25 LA Lakers and Color Challenge

@kalemandra's color cgallenge for the day is color Violet or purple. Here is my entry of the day for #sundaypurple:

My jersey. Every month our High School class celebrates a joint monthly birthday. SOmetimesthey have a motiff or theme. Last July their theme was sports attire. One celebrant who is into sports had a jersey made for me with my favorite team - LA Lakers! The #25 is the number of my idol then, Gail Goodrich he is now in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He was a guard and one of the shortest on the team. I also had a crush on him lol.

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Personal information
Born April 23, 1943 (age 75)
Los Angeles, California
Nationality American
Listed height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Listed weight 170 lb (77 kg)
Career information
High school John H. Francis Polytechnic
(Los Angeles, California)
College UCLA (1962–1965)
NBA draft 1965 / Pick: Territorial
Selected by the Los Angeles Lakers
Playing career 1965–1979
Position Shooting guard
Number 11, 25
Career highlights and awards
NBA champion (1972)
5× NBA All-Star (1969, 1972–1975)
All-NBA First Team (1974)
No. 25 retired by Los Angeles Lakers
2× NCAA champion (1964, 1965)
Helms Foundation College Player of the Year (1965)
Consensus first-team All-American (1965)
2× First-team All-AAWU (1964, 1965)
No. 25 retired by UCLA
Career statistics
Points 19,181 (18.6 ppg)
Rebounds 3,279 (3.2 rpg)
Assists 4,805 (4.7 apg)
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Basketball Hall of Fame as player
College Basketball Hall of Fame
Inducted in 2006
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I think he is still alive because I have not seen any news of his passing away, he is only 75 years old. Up to know my family is still for the LA Lakers all my brothers and now my daughter.

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