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No game in our box scores falls on September 16. The nearest date before it · September 15, 2020: the Denver Nuggets visited the Los Angeles Clippers, in the playoffs. Denver Nuggets 104, Los Angeles Clippers 89. WWikipedia↗

From the vault · March 30, 2019 · 2019 NCAA tournament, Elite Eight: The Virginia Cavaliers beat the Purdue Boilermakers 80–75 in overtime in the Elite Eight of the 2019 NCAA tournament.

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Forward-center · 6′7″ 230 lb · Born 1928-10-21 · High school: Askov · College: Hamline · 1949 BAA draft, by Minneapolis Lakers

Seasons

10

Teams

1

Championships

NBA 1949-50, NBA 1951-52, NBA 1952-53, NBA 1953-54

NBA playoff seasons

9

Awards and honours

• Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, class of 1995 (player)
• NBA All-NBA Team (second team) ×4: 1950-51, 1951-52, 1952-53, 1954-55
• NBA All-Star Game selection ×6: 1950-51, 1951-52, 1952-53, 1954-55, 1955-56, 1956-57

NBA NBA career game logs →

4 × 12 min, 24-second clock, no three-point line. Per-game and shooting figures are this league's alone.

Per-game averages as published: these seasons have no box scores here, so no season totals.

Season	Team	G	MPG	PPG	RPG	APG	FG%	FT%
1949-50	Lakers	68		11.6		1.8	.399	.752
1950-51	Lakers	64		14.1	10.2	2.8	.402	.676
1951-52	Lakers	66	35.5	15.3	10.3	2.7	.419	.761
1952-53	Lakers	70	35.2	15.0	9.3	2.1	.435	.752
1953-54	Lakers	72	31.2	11.1	8.5	1.7	.374	.742
1954-55	Lakers	71	36.0	18.7	10.2	2.0	.422	.747
1955-56	Lakers	72	29.2	13.4	8.4	2.4	.386	.804
1956-57	Lakers	72	30.5	13.7	8.8	1.7	.377	.807
1957-58	Lakers	72	33.2	17.3	11.2	2.3	.410	.786
1958-59	Lakers	72	29.7	13.8	7.9	2.2	.390	.806

Playoffs

Season	Team	G	MPG	PPG	RPG	APG	FG%	FT%
1949-50	Lakers	12		13.0		1.5	.369	.767
1950-51	Lakers	7		15.6	9.6	2.4	.406	.660
1951-52	Lakers	13	38.1	13.3	8.5	1.5	.432	.828
1952-53	Lakers	12	33.3	12.0	8.7	2.0	.331	.848
1953-54	Lakers	13	28.8	10.2	5.6	1.3	.459	.861
1954-55	Lakers	7	29.9	13.7	11.1	1.9	.353	.783
1955-56	Lakers	3	30.0	13.3	5.7	0.7	.423	.900
1956-57	Lakers	5	32.4	17.6	8.6	3.4	.398	.647
1958-59	Lakers	13	28.5	15.5	7.2	1.8	.412	.767