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A member of the Lakers championship teams in 1987 and 1988, Mychal Thompson enters his fifth season as the team’s radio color commentator. Formerly the Timberwolves television color analyst for two seasons, Thompson teams with play-by-play announcer Spero Dedes for all Lakers radio broadcasts.Thompson, a standout at the University of Minnesota, averaged 20.8 ppg throughout his four-year collegiate career and was named All-America following both the 1976-77 and 1977-78 campaigns. The leading scorer in Golden Gopher history with 1,992 points, Thompson was the first overall selection in the 1978 NBA Draft by the Portland Trailblazers. In 12 seasons and 935 regular season games with the Trailblazers, Lakers and San Antonio Spurs, Thompson averaged 13.7 points, 7.4 rebounds and 2.3 assists.Prior to joining the Lakers broadcast team, Thompson co-hosted a radio show in Portland, Ore. and also worked with the NBA’s Vancouver Grizzlies, Seattle Supersonics and Trailblazers as a television broadcast color analyst. Thompson also serves as Sports Ambassador for his native Bahamas.He and his wife, Julie, reside in Rancho Santa Margarita with their three sons. | 