Mikan, nicknamed "Mr. Basketball," played with the Lakers back when they were located in Minneapolis, and helped bring six championships to the franchise from 1947 to 1954.

George Mikan doesn’t necessarily come to mind, and it’s mostly because he played for the Minneapolis iteration of the Lakers during the NBA’s infancy in the late 1940s and 1950s.

Patrick Mikan, one of George’s sons, remembered visits to L.A. when the two men – Mr. Basketball and the man who helped bring together the “Showtime” Lakers – would spend time talking hoops.

The Los Angeles Lakers will retire George Mikan’s No. 99 jersey in a pregame ceremony on Sunday, Oct. 30, when the Lakers host the Denver Nuggets at Crypto.com Arena, it was announced today.

He was bounced from his high-school team because “his feet didn’t match.” Now he is the glamor boy of college basketball. George (“Scaffold”) Mikan stands 6 ft. 9 in his socks, weighs ...

The Los Angeles Lakers retired Hall of Famer George Mikan’s jersey Sunday night in a pregame ceremony. Mikan’s family was there to celebrate the honor and watch No. 99 be unveiled.

Mikan, an arborist, took about five weeks off work last year to paint the panels on the cultural center’s north outside wall, he says. He was switching jobs, so the timing was ideal.