The NBA was founded on the anniversary of D-Day, June 6, 1946, about eight months before William and Emily Krzyzewski welcomed their second son, Michael.
The NBA was eight years old in 1954 and the All-Star game featured such talents as Bob Cousy, Bill Sharman, Easy Ed McCauley, Dolph Schayes and George Mikan.
This is a small clip from that game. In the first play, there’s a pass that you have to kind of rewind to figure out just what happened. Later you may see how fundamentally sound Mikan was. Could he play today?
Not that Mikan.