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George Mikan
American basketball player, coach, commissioner / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Lawrence Mikan Jr. (June 18, 1924 – June 1, 2005), nicknamed Mr. Basketball, was an American professional basketball player. He was born in Joliet, Illinois and studied at DePaul University. He was 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m). From 1947 and 1954 and again in 1956, he played for the Minneapolis Lakers.[1] He also coached the team from 1957 to 1958.
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In 1959, he was honored in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Mikan died in Scottsdale, Arizona on June 1, 2005 from diabetes-related problems, aged 80.