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George Lawrence Mikan

George Lawrence Mikan , 1924-2005, American basketball player, b. Joliet, Ill. After leading De Paul Univ. to the 1945 National Invitational Tournament title and being named All-American three times (1944-46), he played (1948-54, 1955-56) for the Minneapolis Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and led them to five championships from 1949 to 1954. The first dominant "big man" in the NBA and a key figure in the rise of professional basketball, Mikan subsequently became a lawyer and was later (1967-69) the first commissioner of the rival American Basketball Association.

Bibliography: See biography by M. Schumacher (2007).

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