What do all these past NBA players have in common?

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Scottie Pippen - Chicago Bulls

Larry Bird - Boston Celtics

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - Los Angeles Lakers

David Thompson - Denver Nuggets

Patrick Ewing - New York Knicks

Alonzo Mourning - Miami Heat

These players have been honored by their respective teams for their services. It has nothing to do with their stats and NO, not all of them won an NBA chamionship

HINT: Retirement

First person to get it right gets BA

Update:

The Rock got it right. He'll get BA

Answer 1

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The names mentioned above have retired jersey numbers by their teams.

All wore jersey number: 33.

Answer 2

All of their jerseys are retired and all of them wore the number 33

Answer 3

they all used to play in the nba and are retired

Answer 4

the all retired at the same age

thanks

~sreyts

Answer 5

all wared num 33 and all hall of fame

Answer 6

they all stuck with there team for a long time

Answer 7

They all had # 33 and each # was retired.................

Answer 8

they are all in debt

Answer 9

they are all sportscasters now.

Answer 10

They all retired where they started? Lol idk...