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John Kundla

1916 - 2017

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John Albert Kundla (July 3, 1916 – July 23, 2017) was an American college and professional basketball coach. He was the first head coach for the Minneapolis Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and its predecessors, the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and the National Basketball League (NBL), serving 12 seasons, from 1947 to 1959. His teams won six league championships, one in the NBL, one in the BAA, and four in the NBA. Kundla was the head basketball coach at the University of St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Kundla has received more than 427,436 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. John Kundla is the 162nd most popular basketball player (down from 138th in 2019), the 8,372nd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,779th in 2019) and the 98th most popular American Basketball Player.

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  • 43.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, John Kundla ranks 162 out of 1,268. Before him are Ben Wallace, Heino Kruus, Rudy Tomjanovich, Detlef Schrempf, Tatyana Ovechkina, and Stepas Butautas. After him are Paul Pierce, Predrag Danilović, Panagiotis Giannakis, Rick Carlisle, Spud Webb, and Jaak Lipso.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, John Kundla ranks 240. Before him are Kurt Pettersén, Shigeo Arai, Yvon Petra, Karen Lachmann, Jakob Streitle, and Edward Binns. After him are José Joaquín Trejos Fernández, Ken Wharton, Albert Hyzler, Julien Darui, Ľudmila Pajdušáková, and Günther Ortmann. Among people deceased in 2017, John Kundla ranks 422. Before him are Colin Groves, Selena Rocky Malone, Peter Hall, Horacio Guarany, Roberto Cabañas, and Heinz Schneiter. After him are Walter Becker, Ivan Koloff, R. C. Sproul, Mikhail Tolstykh, Paavo Lonkila, and Inge Keller.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Kundla ranks 8,372 out of 18,182. Before him are Lewis Cass (1782), Helen Slater (1963), Hugo Benioff (1899), Eliphalet Remington (1793), Robert Keith (1898), and George Bancroft (1800). After him are Philip Schuyler (1733), Rob Morrow (1962), Mark Hoppus (1972), Assata Shakur (1947), Boyd Holbrook (1981), and Steve Russell (1937).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among basketball players born in United States, John Kundla ranks 98. Before him are Dwight Howard (1985), Dennis Johnson (1954), Horace Grant (1965), Lamar Odom (1979), Ben Wallace (1974), and Rudy Tomjanovich (1948). After him are Paul Pierce (1977), Rick Carlisle (1959), Spud Webb (1963), Klay Thompson (1990), Chuck Cooper (1926), and Chris Mullin (1963).

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