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George Lawrence Mikan

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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-America 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. ... Read more
George (Lawrence) Mikan
...of the American Basketball Association (1967–69). An Associated Press poll in 1950 named him the greatest basketball player of the first half of the 20th century. George (Lawrence) Mikan George (Lawrence) Mikan George (Lawrence) Mikan Read more
George Mikan
George Mikan George Mikan (born 1924) has been described by...Lakers (later the Los Angeles Lakers), Mikan repeatedly helped lead the team to...after nine professional seasons, Mikan held the record for the most career points scored, 11,764. No one who knew George Lawrence ... Read more

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