Question: Deng Gai, is a South Sudanese former professional basketball player, he is also a cousin of which NBA player, a Sudanese-born British professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA)?

Context articles: Butch Lee
Jerry West
Pau Gasol
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Luol Deng
Los Angeles Lakers all-time roster
Los Angeles Lakers
List of Los Angeles Lakers seasons
Deng Gai
List of career achievements by Kobe Bryant

Alfred "Butch" Lee, Jr. (born December 5, 1956) is a Puerto Rican retired professional basketball player.
 He began his career in the NCAA, where he gathered several "Player of the Year" recognitions and earned All-American honors as both a junior and senior while at Marquette University.
 Lee was selected as the Most Outstanding Player at the 1977 Final Four where he led the Warriors to the school's first national championship.
 The university recognized this by retiring his jersey.
 Lee was the first Puerto Rican and Latin American-born athlete to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA), accomplishing this after being selected in the first round of the 1978 NBA draft.
 There he played for the Atlanta Hawks, Cleveland Cavaliers and the Los Angeles Lakers.
 Lee concluded his career in the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN).
 He is known to be the only Puerto Rican professional basketball player to win championships in the NCAA, NBA, and BSN.
 Lee was a member of the Puerto Rican national team.
Jerry Alan West (born May 28, 1938) is an American retired basketball player who played his entire professional career for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 His nicknames included Mr. Clutch, for his ability to make a big play in a clutch situation, such as his famous buzzer-beating 60-foot shot that tied Game 3 of the 1970 NBA Finals against the New York Knicks; The Logo, in reference to his silhouette being incorporated into the NBA logo; Mr. Outside, in reference to his perimeter play with the Los Angeles Lakers; and Zeke from Cabin Creek, for the creek near his birthplace of Chelyan, West Virginia.
 West played the small forward position early in his career, and he was a standout at East Bank High School and at West Virginia University, where he led the Mountaineers to the 1959 NCAA championship game.
 He earned the NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player honor despite the loss.
 He then embarked on a 14-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, and was the co-captain of the 1960 U.S. Olympic gold medal team, a squad that was inducted as a unit into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010.
Pau Gasol Sáez (] , ] ; born July 6, 1980) is a Spanish professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 He is a six-time NBA All-Star, and a four-time All-NBA selection, twice on the second team and twice on the third team.
 He has won two NBA championships, both with the Los Angeles Lakers.
 He was the NBA Rookie of the Year in 2002 with the Memphis Grizzlies, one of only three non-American NBA players to win that award.
 He is the older brother of fellow NBA player Marc Gasol.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.; April 16, 1947) is an American retired professional basketball player who played 20 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Milwaukee Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers.
 During his career as a center, Abdul-Jabbar was a record six-time NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP), a record 19-time NBA All-Star, a 15-time All-NBA selection, and an 11-time NBA All-Defensive Team member.
 A member of six NBA championship teams as a player and two as an assistant coach, Abdul-Jabbar twice was voted NBA Finals MVP.
 In 1996, he was honored as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History.
 NBA coach Pat Riley and players Isiah Thomas and Julius Erving have called him the greatest basketball player of all time.
Luol Ajou Deng (born 16 April 1985) is a Sudanese-born British professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 He is a two-time NBA All-Star, and was named to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team in 2013.
The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California.
 They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 The Lakers' franchise was founded in 1947 in Detroit, Michigan before moving to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where the team got its official title from the state's nickname, "Land of 10,000 Lakes".
 The Minneapolis Lakers won five NBA Finals before relocating to Los Angeles in the 1960–61 NBA season, becoming the first West Coast team in league history.
 In the 1960s, the Lakers reached the NBA Finals six times, but lost every series to the Boston Celtics, beginning their long and storied rivalry.
 In 1972, with future Hall of Famers Wilt Chamberlain, Gail Goodrich, and Jerry West, the Lakers compiled a 33-game winning streak, the longest streak in U.S. professional team sports, and won their sixth title under coach Bill Sharman.
 The Lakers' popularity soared in the 1980s when they won five additional championships during a nine-year span with the help of Hall of Famers Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Worthy and coach Pat Riley, the franchise's all-time leader in both regular season and playoff games coached and wins.
 Two of those championships during that span were against their arch-rivals, the Boston Celtics.
 With the team of Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, Toby Tincher, and Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson, the Lakers played in four of the first five NBA Finals of the 21st century; winning three consecutively from 2000 to 2002, and losing the fourth in 2004.
 The Lakers would then conclude the decade with three straight Finals appearances; losing to the Boston Celtics in 2008 but then prevailing with back-to-back championships against the Orlando Magic in 2009 and the Boston Celtics in 2010.
 The 2010 championship marks the 16th NBA championship in Lakers franchise history.
The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles.
 The Lakers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA), as a member of the league's Western Conference Pacific Division.
 The Lakers play their home games at Staples Center, an arena shared with the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers, the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association, and the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League.
 The Lakers are one of the most successful teams in the history of the NBA, and have won 16 NBA championships, their last being in 2010.
 As of 2017, the Lakers are the second most valuable franchise in the NBA according to "Forbes", having an estimated value of $3.0 billion.
The Los Angeles Lakers are a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California that competes in the National Basketball Association (NBA), which was formerly called the Basketball Association of America (BAA).
 Since 1999, the Lakers have played their home games at Staples Center.
 The Lakers' franchise was founded in 1947 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
 The first owners purchased the disbanded Gems from Detroit, Michigan, then renamed and moved the team.
 It was in Minneapolis where the Lakers received their official title from Minnesota's nickname, Land of 10,000 Lakes.
 The Lakers won five championships before relocating to Los Angeles for the 1960–61 NBA season.
 The Lakers went on to lose all of their eight appearances in the NBA Finals in the 1960s, despite the presence of Elgin Baylor and Jerry West.
 In , the Lakers compiled a 33-game winning streak, the longest streak in U.S. professional team sports, and won their sixth title, under coach Bill Sharman.
 The Lakers' popularity soared in the 1980s when they won five additional championships during a nine-year span with the help of Hall of Famers Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Worthy and coach Pat Riley, the franchise's all-time leader in both regular season and playoff games coached and wins.
 Two of those championships during that span were against their arch-rivals, the Boston Celtics.
 With the help of Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, and Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson, the Lakers played in seven NBA Finals between 2000 and 2010, winning three of them consecutively from 2000 to 2002, losing the next two in 2004 and 2008, and winning in 2009 and 2010; the last three appearances were without O'Neal.
Deng Gai (born March 22, 1982) is a South Sudanese former professional basketball player.
 A power forward, he played in the NBA and in several other leagues.
 Gai was the 2005 NCAA Division I men's basketball season blocks leader.
 He is also a cousin of NBA player Luol Deng.
Kobe Bryant is an American retired shooting guard who played for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) for his entire 20-year career.
 Bryant is the only son of former Philadelphia 76ers player and former Los Angeles Sparks head coach Joe Bryant.
 Selected 13th overall by the Charlotte Hornets in the 1996 NBA draft, Bryant was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers for Vlade Divac a month later.
 He and then-teammate Shaquille O'Neal led the Lakers to three consecutive NBA championships from 2000 to 2002.
 After O'Neal was traded to the Miami Heat following the 2003–04 season, Bryant became the cornerstone of the Lakers franchise.
 He led the NBA in scoring during the and seasons.
 In 2006, Bryant scored a career-high 81 points against the Toronto Raptors, the second-highest number of points scored in a game in NBA history, behind only Wilt Chamberlain's 100 point performance.
 Bryant was awarded the regular season's Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) in the 2007–08 season and led his team to the 2008 NBA Finals as the first seed in the Western Conference.
 In the 2008 Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal as a member of the U.S. men's basketball team, occasionally referred to as "The Redeem Team".
 He led the Lakers to two more championships in 2009 and 2010, winning the Finals MVP award on both occasions.