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 good and a select few were flat-out legendary.
As the Lakers approach their 80th season of existence (they were founded back in 1946 as the Detroit Gems in the National Basketball League), LeBron Wire is taking a look at each player who has worn their jersey, whether it has been a purple and gold one or the ones they donned back in the Midwest during their early years.
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Here is a look at Corey Brewer, a forward who played for the Lakers several years ago.
Brewer grew up in Tennessee and played three seasons of college basketball at the University of Florida. While there, he won back-to-back NCAA championships in 2006 and 2007 along with future NBA standouts Joakim Noah and Al Horford, and he was named the Most Outstanding Player of the 2007 Final Four.
After he was the No. 7 pick in the 2007 NBA Draft, Brewer played for five teams in his first 10 pro seasons. One of those teams was the Dallas Mavericks, with whom he won a championship in 2011.
The Lakers traded guard Lou Williams, who had won the first of three Sixth Man of the Year awards two seasons prior, for Brewer midway through the 2016-17 campaign. They kept Brewer for about one full calendar year until waiving him on Feb. 28, 2018.
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In 78 games with Los Angeles, he averaged 4.2 points, 1.9 rebounds, 1.0 assists and 0.8 steals in 13.5 minutes a game.
Brewer remained in the NBA through the 2019-20 season. The following season, the New Orleans Pelicans hired him to be a player development coach, and he became an assistant coach prior to this past season.
This article originally appeared on LeBron Wire: Lakers jersey history No. 3 — Corey Brewer