Mikan, George (Lawrence)

Mikan, George (Lawrence)
born June 18, 1924, Joliet, Ill., U.S.

U.S. basketball player and executive.

He was an outstanding centre at DePaul University, where he also took his law degree. Standing about 6 ft 10 in. (2.8 m), he was the first of the outstanding big men in post-World War II professional basketball. He played for the Minneapolis Lakers (1947–56), leading them to six championships. He was later named first commissioner 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.

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