he's a member of the NBA's 75th Anniversary Team and has his No. 99 jersey retired in Lakers lore." HoopsHype on Mikan: "The first truly dominant NBA big man, George Mikan used his massive size to ...

They also knew what the Lakers had. The Lakers had the great George Mikan and Dan "Swede" Carlson and Jim Pollard, and it was a given that Minneapolis was the best professional team assembled.

G. Mike Mikan was tapped as CEO in April. He had previously served as interim CEO for Best Buy during bumpy times in 2012; most recently he led Shot-Rock Capital, a Minneapolis-based private ...

When it first emerged that the Los Angeles Lakers had traded for Luka Dončić, everyone unanimously agreed that the report was fake. That’s how seismic the trade was for the Lakers. When LeBron James ...

From Minneapolis to Los Angeles and ... he told me about who they were. To honor George Mikan, Volume 3 of the Bertka Files is about Lakers big men. It’s not every day you get to sit down ...

George led the Laker girls in the first race of this season Dec. 20 at Buck Hill in Burnsville, taking fourth overall with a combined time of 51.39 on her two runs. The Lakers were seventh in the ...