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	NBA.com: George Mikan Bio
		George Mikan, a 6-10 giant of a man who possessed superior coordination and a fierce competitive spirit, was one of the prototypes for the dominating tall players of later decades.
		Mikan was so hard to defend and to score against, in fact, that the NBA had to change its rules of play in order to keep him from completely overwhelming the league.
		Mikan did seem to single-handedly overpower the rest of the league at times, so much so that the NBA tried to make it more difficult for him to score by expanding the width of the key, from 6 feet to 12 feet.
	www.nba.com /history/players/mikan_bio.html (2556 words)

	ESPN Classic - Mikan was first pro to dominate the post
		Mikan was moved last weekend from a Scottsdale hospital, where he had been for six weeks for treatment of a diabetic wound in his leg.
		Mikan was the league's MVP in the 1948-49 season, when he averaged 28.3 points in leading the Lakers to the title.
		Terry Mikan said one of his father's reasons for fighting so hard against his illnesses "was his hope that he would be alive when the collective bargaining agreement was reached and the decision had been finalized on the pre-65ers and their surviving families.
	espn.go.com /classic/obit/s/2005/0602/2074322.html (1394 words)

	George Mikan: Basketball's First Great Center
		Mikan was a 6-foot-10 center in an era when the sport was dominated by shorter players.
		Mikan was a two-time College Player of the Year at DePaul and led the team to the NIT title in 1945.
		Mikan was so dominant, the NBA eventually widened the lane from 6 feet to 12 to make it tougher for him to score.
	www.psacard.com /articles/article1744.chtml (588 words)

	George Mikan - Lakers Players George Mikan
		Mikan led the NBA in scoring three times and in rebounding average twice and he played in the league's first four All-Star Games.
		Mikan's debut as a professional came in 1946 after he was signed by the Chicago American Gears of the NBL, a predecessor of the NBA.
		One of the most dominant players ever to play the game, Mikan's contributions to the sport and his impact on the NBA still loom as large as his 6-10 frame and his accomplishments were further acknowledged when he was named a member of the NBA 50th Anniversary All-Time Team in 1996.
	www.lakersplayers.org /george-mikan.php (2731 words)

	Sports
		Mikan was such a drawing card that he quickly became almost bigger than the league itself.
		Mikan was in the first class elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1959.
		Dominating the pro players as devastatingly as he had college players, Mikan scored 16.5 points per game in his rookie year, powered his team to victory in the league championship, and was named to the All-NBL Team.
	www.cityofjoliet.com /halloffame/athletes/georgemikan.htm (722 words)

	MPR: Minneapolis Lakers great George Mikan dies
		Mikan referred to the physical nature of the NBA in a 2001 interview with Minnesota Public Radio.
		Mikan didn't play high school basketball, but he was standout at DePaul University, located in his native state of Illinois.
		Mikan is survived by his wife of 58 years, six children and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/2005/06/02_ap_mikanobit (815 words)

	George Mikan, 80, Dominant Basketball Center, Dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		George Mikan, the Minneapolis Lakers center who was the first superstar in modern professional basketball and a player so big and so dominant that college and pro rules were changed in an effort to handcuff him, died Wednesday at a rehabilitation center in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 80.
		Mikan sustained various injuries during his career including fractures of both legs, his left arch, right foot, nose, right wrist, thumb and three fingers, plus 166 stitches.
		Mikan is survived by his wife, Patricia; his sons Larry, Terry, Patrick and Michael; and his daughters Trisha and Maureen, The Associated Press reported.
	www.banderasnews.com /0506/nw-mikan.htm (976 words)

	GMikan_dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mikan changed the game of basketball with his dominant size and skill, and he was truly the first ‘superstar’ in the sport.
		Unaffected by the rule change, the determined Mikan was a three-time All-America (1944, 1945, 1946) and led the nation in scoring in 1945 and 1946.
		Mikan, who scored 1,870 points at DePaul, once tallied 53 against Rhode Island State, a remarkable feat considering he single-handedly outscored the entire Rhode Island State team.
	www.hoophall.com /news/GMikan_dies.htm (371 words)

	George Mikan Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Mikan's only early sports interest was the game of marbles, in which he won a countywide marble-shooting championship.
		Mikan's doctor thought that he would not be able to play again after breaking his leg, and he could not even walk normally for more than a year.
		Mikan seemed the logical choice to replace Kundla, but his coaching career, which lasted only the first half of the 1957-58 season, was short and disastrous.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/george-mikan (1766 words)

	The Seattle Times: Sonics: Former NBA great Mikan dies at age 80
		Mikan was the league's MVP in the 1948-49 season, when he averaged 28.3 points — a phenomenal total in that era — in leading the Lakers to the NBA title.
		Mikan coached the Lakers for part of the 1957-58 season, and was commissioner of the American Basketball Association in 1967, introducing the 3-point line and the distinctive red, white and blue ball.
		Mikan was the tournament's MVP when DePaul won the 1945 National Invitation Tournament, scoring 53 points against Rhode Island.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/sonics/2002296432_webmikan02.html (713 words)

	GEORGE MIKAN: 1924-2005 / NBA legend changed the game
		George Mikan, the bespectacled giant who so dominated pro basketball in its early years that the game was forced to change its rules, died of kidney failure Wednesday at a rehabilitation hospital in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 80.
		Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1959, Mikan was voted the game's greatest player in the first half of the 20th century and was named one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history in 1996.
		Mikan's size, his history of personal fouls (he led the league in fouls three times), in addition to his 10 broken bones and 166 stitches during his career, caused some to call him a rough player, sort of an early-day Shaquille O'Neal.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2005/06/03/SPGDUD33I11.DTL (534 words)

	SCP Auctions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		George Mikan was born in Joliet, Illinois in 1924 and educated at DePaul University, Chicago.
		From the moment he first set foot on a basketball court Mikan demonstrated superior coordination and a fierce competitive spirit that would lead him to become on of the biggest drawing cards in all of sports.
		Mikan served as commissioner of the American Basketball Association from its formation in 1967 until 1969.
	www.scpauctions.com /html/auctions/writeup/mikan.htm (366 words)

	NBA.com: The Passing of a Pioneer: George Mikan, 1924-2005
		The 6-foot-10 Mikan, who ushered in the role of the dominant big man, carried the Minneapolis Lakers (and, to a large extent, the NBA itself) to five NBA championships in six seasons and retired as the sport's first icon, died on June 1, 2005.
		Another former dominant Lakers center, Shaquille O'Neal, may be in the heat of the Eastern Conference Finals, but he had Mikan on his mind at the start of a TNT postgame interview Thursday.
		Mikan's legacy was cemented in 1959 when he was part of the first induction class into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
	www.nba.com /history/mikan_050602.html (810 words)

	Mikan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Japanese, mikan is also a general term for citrus.
		It is commonly called mikan in Japan, satsuma in the UK, and clementine or tangerine in Canada.
		In 1876 during the Meiji period, mikan were brought to the United States from the Satsuma Province in Kyūshū, Japan by a spouse of a member of the US Embassy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mikan (413 words)

	The Seattle Times: Sonics: NBA's first dominant big man, George Mikan, dies at 80
		It was that combination of courtesy and competitiveness that made Mikan a pioneer on the court and an idol off it.
		Mikan was a star before he turned pro, dominating college basketball to the point that the NCAA was forced to create the goaltending rule to keep the bespectacled, 6-foot-10 center from flicking the ball out of the basket.
		Mikan's Lakers won five league titles in the first six years of the franchise's history, starting a dynasty that would be reborn in Los Angeles after his retirement, because of injuries, in 1956.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/sonics/2002297426_mikan03.html (807 words)

	George Mikan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mikan was voted the best basketball player for the first 50 years of the 20th century.
		Mikan is a member of basketball's Hall of Fame and was voted 1 of the top 50 players of all time at the NBA's 50th anniversary.
		Mikan was the first commissioner of the ABA.
	www.dickscourtroom.com /mikan.htm (79 words)

	Minneapolis Lakers great George Mikan dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Six-foot-10, Mikan was so effective as a center at DePaul that he forced the NCAA to adopt the goaltending rule.
		Mikan's Lakers won five of the first six NBA titles after the league was formed in 1948.
		Mikan was the league's MVP in its inaugural 1948-49 season, when he averaged 28.3 points in leading the Lakers to the NBA title.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1415202/posts (3497 words)

	George Mikan (1924-2005)
		George Mikan, the "gentle giant" who a half-century ago brought fame and stability to the fledgling world of professional basketball and literally transformed the game, died June 1st just 17 days shy of his 18th birthday.
		After retiring George Mikan coached the Lakers for part of the 1957-58 season, and was commissioner of the American Basketball Association in 1967, introducing the 3-point line and the distinctive red, white and blue ball.
		George Mikan is survived by his wife of 58 years, Patricia; sons Larry, Terry, Patrick and Michael; daughters Trisha and Maureen, and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
	www.sportsecyclopedia.com /memorial/mpls/mikan.html (1167 words)

	Basketball's first 'big man' changed face of the game \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Mikan died Wednesday night at a Scottsdale rehabilitation center after a long fight with diabetes and kidney ailments.
		Mikan led the league in personal fouls three times He averaged 23.1 points in seven seasons with Minneapolis before retiring because of injuries in 1956.
		Mikan coached the Lakers for part of the 1957-58 season, and was commissioner of the American Basketball Association in 1967, introducing the three-point line and the distinctive red, white and blue ball.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050603/news_2s3mikan.html (1014 words)

	ESPN.com - Dick Vitale - George Mikan was NBA's first star big man
		Mikan was a superstar at DePaul and then in the NBA.
		In the NBA, he was the league's first-ever MVP in the league's first season (1948-49), when he averaged 28.3 points per game to lead the then-Minneapolis Lakers to the first of their five NBA championships during his career.
		George Mikan was truly one of the legendary greats as he graced the NCAA and NBA hardwood.
	espn.go.com /dickvitale/vcolumn050602-Mikan.html (425 words)

	Mikan, NBA's 1st star, dies at 80 in Scottsdale
		Mikan suffered from diabetes and kidney failure, which required constant care, but if you caught him at the right time, it was like nothing had changed.
		Terry Mikan told the Associated Press that his father had one leg amputated in 2000, and that he recently was hospitalized for six weeks of treatment for a diabetes wound in the other.
		"Mikan was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1959.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/sports/articles/0603mikanobit0603.html (952 words)

	George Mikan
		Bjarkman wrote that Bob Kurland and George Mikan unquestionably transformed the "role of the towering big man from that of curious goon to that of potent offensive and defensive force.
		Gowdy reported that the difference between Mikan and Kurland was that Mikan was an offensive weapon with amazing strength to go along with his size and "once he developed a hook shot which he could launch from either side with either hand, Mikan was all but unstoppable.
		According to the Time-Life editors, Mikan was so hard to defend that the league doubled the width of the foul lane in 1951.
	www.the-surfs-up.com /sports/georgemikan.html (1094 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- NBA's first dominant big man, former Lakers star Mikan, dead at 80
		He had the ability to be a fierce competitor on the court and a gentle giant off the court.
		Mikan's Lakers won five league titles in the first six years of the franchise's history.
		In recent years, Mikan spoke out against the small pensions given to those who played in the league before 1965.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/nba/20050602-1153-obit-mikan.html (901 words)

	George Mikan...Coming Soon! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The irrepressible George Mikan, professional basketball's first dominant big man who led the Minneapolis Lakers to five championships, died at a Scottsdale, Arizona rehabilitation center, on Wednesday, June 1, 2005.
		Mikan had suffered from diabetes and kidney failure and he was recently in the hospital for treatment of a diabetes wound in the his leg (his other legs was amputated several years ago).
		A rough player, Mikan led the league in personal fouls three times and had broke 10 bones during his playing career, yet for seven seasons he averaged 23.1 points per game.
	www.cmgww.com /sports/mikan (534 words)

	About MIKAN
		MIKAN is a French company built on experience gained during years of active climate research at top international level.
		MIKAN is closely cooperating with internationally renowned research institutes.
		MIKAN won the prize of the International Jury of the French ministry of research and education contest 2002.
	www.mikan.nc /mikan.htm (173 words)

	JockBio: George Mikan Biography
		Before George Mikan, pro basketball was a grinding, workmanlike game played by guys who were just over (or just under) six feet tall.
		Mikan served as ABA president for two seasons, and then went back to his law practice.
		The Mikan Drill, by the way, is still used at every level of basketball, from high school to the pros.
	www.jockbio.com /Classic/Mikan/Mikan_bio.html (4349 words)

	George Mikan Biography
		It used to read: "George Mikan vs. Knicks." The first dominant big man in professional basketball and the game's first true superstar, George Mikan played with a competitive fire and zest matched by few.
		In fact, Mikan, along with fellow Hall of Famer Bob Kurland, swatted away so many shots that in 1944 the NCAA introduced a rule that prohibited goaltending.
		He won his first professional championship with the Chicago American Gears of the NBL in 1947 and captured six more pro titles (1 NBL-1948, 1 BAA-1949, and 4 NBA-1950, 1952-54).
	www.hoophall.com /halloffamers/Mikan.htm (489 words)

	Mikan remembered - The Boston Globe
		MIAMI -- The NBA marked the passing of Hall of Famer George Mikan with a moment of silence before Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals last night.
		He was a big man who could do so many things on the court.
		Shaquille O'Neal was saddened by the news of Mikan's death.
	www.boston.com /sports/basketball/articles/2005/06/03/mikan_remembered (440 words)

	SI.com - Magazine - SI Flashback: George Mikan - Thursday June 2, 2005 5:05PM
		Years later Mikan helped another pro league get on its feet by serving as the American Basketball Association's first commissioner, from 1967 to '69.
		Mikan, now 70, grabbed Chicago's ownership opportunity like an errant rebound, adding his name to a league whose owners include New York Ranger Mark Messier and Who's the Boss's Tony Danza.
		His biggest challenge, however, is improving Cheetah attendance, which has averaged 1,939 at the UIC Pavilion this season, second worst in the league.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2005/magazine/06/02/mikan.9.22.94 (616 words)

	George Mikan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mikan was born in Joliet, Illinois to Croatian parents, and played college basketball at DePaul University from 1941 to 1946 under coach Ray Meyer.
		He led the nation in scoring and was named National Player of the Year in 1946.
		Mikan began playing professional basketball with the Chicago American Gears of the National Basketball League, leading them to the NBL title in 1947.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Mikan (953 words)

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