Gail Goodrich

Goodrich led the 1971-72 Lakers in scoring at 25.9 points a game on the team that went 69-13, won 33 straight and took the title — still the longest winning streak in major American professional sport. A left-handed guard out of UCLA, he had already gone 30-0 in 1963-64 and won national championships in 1964 and 1965 under John Wooden, finishing 78-11 across three varsity years. Over fourteen NBA seasons he averaged 18.6 points and 4.7 assists, and entered the Hall of Fame in 1996. Playing next to Jerry West and Wilt Chamberlain, he was the one who most often took the hardest shot on the floor, and the numbers say he was right to.