Word: mikkelsen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PROVIDENCE, R.I., March 3--The Boston Celtics continued their mastery over Minneapolis with a second half comeback for a 119-112 victory tonight as the Lakers' Vern Mikkelsen became the seventh players in National Basketball Assn. history to reach the 10,000-point mark...
...first five minutes of last week's game it was nip & tuck. Then, when the score reached gall, Minneapolis spurted ahead. Two of its big guns-Mikan and Vern Mikkelsen-were seesawing the Trotters dizzy from a double pivot. At the half, Minneapolis was breezing along in front, 40-29. Although the Globetrotters put two and sometimes three men on Mikan, they could not stop the big fellow, and loose-jointed "Sweetwater" Clifton, the Trotters' pivotman center, fouled out trying...