George Mikan played 7 seasons (1949–1956) for MNL. Early Bloomer career, peaking in 1951. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1959.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
7 seasons · peak 18.8 in 1951 · league-best seasons: 1949, 1951
| Season | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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| 1947 | Chicago | 25 | — | — | — | — | 72.6% | — | — | — | — | 16.5 |
| 1948 | Minneapolis | 56 | — | — | — | — | 75.2% |
Career boards only, within NBA · corpus from 2002
Cross-sport prominence: 95.9th percentile among NBA careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
NBA Age Milestones — Youngest to 20 PPG, 10 RPG and 100 Career VALNBA Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsNBA Career Arc TypesNBA Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesNBA Clutch Delta — Who Rises in the PlayoffsNBA Compilers vs Comets — Career Shape
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Box scores, rosters, and draft data (2002+) come from sportsdataverse's hoopR release. College, international, and pre-2002 per-game rows are backfilled additively from Wikipedia.
Fan Rating
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VAL (Value Above League) measures each NBA season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
49.0 career wins over 7 seasons · 1 win = 1.73 VAL
Best season · 1951 · +10.8 wins
Latest season · 1956 · +0.9 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a NBA player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often George Mikan led or placed top-ten on a NBA season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
Career arc
Early Bloomer
Peaked in the first third of their career — came in fast and hot. Peak 1951, 7 rated seasons.
George Mikan's 1950 season ranks among the most statistically extreme in NBA history — measured only against its own season and position-group peers (robust z, never blended across eras).
George Mikan's 1950 season, re-projected onto the 2026 league — its within-era standing expressed in one modern currency (VAL), so it ranks beside today's best in NBA history.
Ranked against the single greatest era-translated seasons in every sport by z — robust standard deviations above George Mikan's own era's positional peers, the one dominance measure comparable across the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB.
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Gave the Los Angeles Lakers an entire corpus-attributed career — 8 seasons (1949–1956), one crest. The rarest loyalty in the sport.