Michael Cooper

Michael Jerome Cooper is an American basketball coach and former player. He played for the Los Angeles Lakers during his entire career in the National Basketball Association, winning five NBA championships with the Lakers during their Showtime era. He was an eight-time selection to the NBA All-Defensive Team, including five times on the first team. He was named the NBA Defensive Player of the Year in 1987. In 2024, it was announced that Cooper would be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

15 April 1956

Born on the same birth day (15 April): Aida Mollenkamp • Catherine I of Russia • Josia Thugwane • Pedro Delgado • Robert Mills (physicist) • Tim Thomas (ice hockey, born 1974)

Born in the same month (April 1956): Anne Glover (biologist) • Beatrice Ask • Christopher Darden • Colin Tyre, Lord Tyre • Georg Werthner • Jimmy Barnes • Koo Stark • Miguel Ángel Russo • T Lavitz • Tom Herr