• Martin, All-NBA Second Team Vern Mikkelsen, NBA All-Star Game Slater Martin, NBA All-Star Game Jim Pollard, NBA All-Star Game 1954–55 Minneapolis Lakers...
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  • Division champion Minneapolis Lakers faced the Eastern Division champion Syracuse Nationals in a best-of-seven series with Minneapolis having home-court...
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  • the 1948–49 Minneapolis Lakers was center George Mikan, who played his final NBA game in the 1955–56 season, although he missed the 1954–55 season. After...
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    The team relocated to Minneapolis. Though the Lakers had the same record as the Rochester Royals in the Central Division, the Lakers won the tiebreaker and...
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  • to Minneapolis in 1947 to become the Lakers. The Lakers are one of the NBA's most famous and successful franchises. As of August 2024, the Lakers are...
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    Minneapolis Lakers (1952–1954) Chicago Bulls (1991–1993) Chicago Bulls (1996–1998) Los Angeles Lakers (2000–2002) Two consecutive Minneapolis Lakers (1949...
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    the name of the Detroit Gems but moved to Minnesota and became the Minneapolis Lakers the following season. Prior to the 1948–49 BAA season the franchise...
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  • Conference champion Minneapolis Lakers defeating the Eastern Conference champion Syracuse Nationals 4 games to 3 in the NBA Finals. For the Lakers, it was their...
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    new ownership relocated the team to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and renamed the team as the Minneapolis Lakers. The Lakers won the 1948 NBL championship before...
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    Frank Selvy (category Minneapolis Lakers players)
    the Minneapolis Lakers. Subsequently, Selvy remained with the Lakers for last five seasons of his career. He averaged 10.7 points for the Lakers in their...
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  • Broadcasters for the Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lakers National Basketball Association teams. On February 14, 2011, Time Warner Cable and the Lakers announced the...
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    Lakers Celtics    The Celtics–Lakers rivalry is a National Basketball Association (NBA) rivalry between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers...
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    overall) by the Minneapolis Lakers after a collegiate career at Hamline University. He played two seasons for three teams, the Lakers, Baltimore Bullets...
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    player with the Minneapolis Lakers. Mencel played collegiately at the University of Minnesota, and was named the Big Ten MVP in the 1955 season, his senior...
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    Minneapolis is built on an artesian aquifer on flat terrain and is known for cold, snowy winters and hot, humid summers. Nicknamed the "City of Lakes"...
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    Elgin Baylor (category Minneapolis Lakers draft picks)
    forward in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lakers. Baylor was a gifted shooter, a strong rebounder, and an accomplished...
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    Chicago American Gears of the National Basketball League (NBL) and the Minneapolis Lakers of the NBL, the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and the National...
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    Pollard spent his entire eight-year professional career with the Minneapolis Lakers. Pollard was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of...
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  • New York Knicks coached the Eastern Division and John Kundla of the Minneapolis Lakers coached the Western Division. The attendance was 16,487. The Eastern...
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    Vern Mikkelsen (category Minneapolis Lakers draft picks)
    Martin he was a key part of four championships with the Minneapolis Lakers, today's Los Angeles Lakers. Mikkelsen was also an All-American in college, and...
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    Dick Garmaker (category Minneapolis Lakers draft picks)
    (Duquesne). He was drafted by the NBA's Minneapolis Lakers twice (in 1954 and again in 1955) and joined the team for the 1955–56 NBA season. As a result of that...
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  • Award. Dick Garmaker and Tom Gola were selected before the draft as Minneapolis Lakers' and Philadelphia Warriors' territorial picks respectively. Three...
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  • Pistons) and Minneapolis (Los Angeles Lakers) include two round-robin games from the 1954 NBA playoffs. Games played totals against Minneapolis (Los Angeles...
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  • Ray Felix (category Minneapolis Lakers players)
    selected), to the Minneapolis Lakers for Dick Garmaker and a 1960 2nd round draft pick (Dave Budd was later selected). In his Lakers tenure, the team moved...
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  • Central Division) champion Minneapolis Lakers to face Western Division champion Anderson Packers in the NBA semifinals. The Lakers defeated the Packers to...
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    records, and other achievements pertaining to the Los Angeles Lakers. The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team currently playing...
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  • Division. In the Western Division Finals, the Pistons eliminated the Minneapolis Lakers 3–1 in a best-of-five series to reach the NBA Finals. In the 7-game...
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