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50. Ron Artest

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All due respect to Tom Hawkins, Mitch Kupchak, Jim Krebs, Pat Riley, Dick Barnett, Archie Clark, Bill Bridges, Anthony Peeler, Brian Shaw and other Lakers with multiple years of service, but Artest has the chance to help sustain the current Lakers team's success. As he said so himself: "The fans expect to repeat. Everybody in L.A. expects a second ring."