The Los Angeles Lakers have perhaps the most history of any team in the NBA and there are currently 11 jerseys hanging in the rafters of the Staples Center, belonging to 10 different players. Kobe Bryant, of course, had both his number 8 and 24 retired by the team.
In most cases, the legend that wore the retired number was the last person to wear that number. No Laker teammate tried wearing 8 after Kobe switched to 24, nobody wore 34 after Shaquille O’Neal was traded to the Miami Heat and nobody touched Magic Johnson‘s 32, mostly because the team retired it in 1992, three months after Magic’s HIV announcement.