<Tr> <Th> Blocks </Th> <Td> 1,073 (1.1 bpg) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Stats at Basketball-Reference.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Mychal George Thompson (born January 30, 1955) is a Bahamian retired basketball player . He played the power forward and center positions for the University of Minnesota and the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers, San Antonio Spurs, and Los Angeles Lakers. Thompson won two NBA championships with the Lakers during their Showtime era in the 1980s . He is the father of basketball players Klay Thompson, and Mychel Thompson, and baseball player Trayce Thompson . </P> <P> Thompson was born in Nassau, Bahamas, but moved to the United States as a youth, settling in Miami, Florida and he attended Miami Jackson Senior High School . In his senior year in 1974 as part of a basketball starting lineup nicknamed the "Jackson 5" featuring himself, three other Bahamians and a Cuban, the Generals mowed through the regular season beating opponents by an average of 30 points per game en route to a 33 - 0 record and winning the Class 4A state championship over Winter Park High School . The title was won with four key ineligible players (due to falsified birth records), including Thompson, on Miami Jackson's team . He then attended the University of Minnesota where he had a standout collegiate career . </P>

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