Mikan had a highly successful playing career, winning seven NBL, BAA, and NBA championships in nine seasons, an NBA All-Star Game MVP trophy, and three scoring titles. He played in the first four NBA All-Star games and was a member of the first six All-BAA and All-NBA Teams.

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Dec 26, 2024 · George Mikan (born June 18, 1924, Joliet, Ill., U.S.—died June 1, 2005, Scottsdale, Ariz.) was an American professional basketball player and executive who was selected in an Associated Press poll in 1950 as the greatest basketball player of the first half of the 20th century.

Sep 13, 2021 · George Mikan was a four-time All-Star and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1959. Mikan was certainly one of the most dominant. Counting his season with the Gears and a championship...

May 8, 2018 · George Mikan (born 1924) has been described by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as" the first dominant big man in professional basketball and the game's first superstar." At six feet, ten inches, he towered over most other college and professional players of the 1940s and 1950s.

In 1967, Mikan became the first commissioner of the American Basketball Association, a new league to rival the NBA. He invented the league’s trademark red-white-and-blue ABA ball. Mikan resigned from the ABA in 1969.

Jan 31, 2022 · One of the most dominant figures in the early days of basketball as well as the NBA, George Mikan prompted the “Mikan rule”

George Lawrence Mikan, Jr. (June 18, 1924 – June 11, 2005), nicknamed Mr. Basketball, was a Croatian - American professional basketball player primarily for the Minneapolis Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

The first big man in pro basketball, Mikan set the standard for future centers with his exceptional agility, competitiveness, and skill. A nine-foot bronzed sculpture of Mikan shooting his famous hook shot appears outside the Target Center in Minneapolis.

George Lawrence Mikan. 6/18/1924–6/1/2005. AMERICAN. PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYER. In modern basketball, a 6 ft 10 in, 245 lb (2.09 m, 110 kg) center is something of a rarity—most National Basketball League players at that position are taller and much heavier.