NBA: Top 5 Players that played for both Celtics & Lakers

#1 Shaquille O'Neal

Shaquille O'Neal

Career Averages:

Lakers - 514 games - 27.0 points, 11.8 rebounds, 3.1 assists

Celtics - 37 games - 9.2 points, 4.8 rebounds, 0.7 assists

The numbers are probably not required. Almost everybody knows of the success Shaq attained with the Lakers - three titles in three years from 2000 to 2002 and a league MVP in 1999-00. He was the leader of the group along with Kobe Bryant but given his physical dominance on the game, he was named Finals MVP all three times. He joined the Lakers in 1996 as a free agent before being traded to the Heat, where he won another championship in 2006.

After his days in Miami, he played in Phoenix and Cleveland with the Suns and Cavaliers respectively. Still, he hadn't won another title and after Bryant won his fifth title in 2010 (one more than Shaq's total), the Diesel was determined to at least tie the Black Mamba's tally.

In an attempt to win another title, he signed with the Celtics for the 2010-11. In what turned out to be an injury-riddled season for Shaq, Boston were ousted in the second round of the Playoffs by the LeBron James-led Heat.