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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 445,167 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). John Kundla is the 158th most popular basketball player (up from 162nd in 2019), the 7,830th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,354th in 2019) and the 89th most popular American Basketball Player.

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  • 450k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Among basketball players, John Kundla ranks 158 out of 1,757. Before him are Saša Obradović, Chuck Cooper, Rudy Tomjanovich, Jaak Lipso, Carlos Blixen, and Hal Greer. After him are K. C. Jones, Dell Curry, Lauren Jackson, Stojko Vranković, David Thompson, and Juan Carlos Navarro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, John Kundla ranks 238. Before him are Julien Darui, Ken Curtis, Edward Binns, Vicente Ferreira da Silva, Dorothy Cheney, and David Brown. After him are Lee Cronbach, Frank Parker, Damián Iguacén Borau, Toni Branca, Krystyna Feldman, and Lidia Wysocka. Among people deceased in 2017, John Kundla ranks 405. Before him are Ivar Aronsson, June Foray, Osvaldo Fattori, István Szondy, Santiago Vernazza, and Katy Bødtger. After him are Marco Coll, Warren Frost, Reema Lagoo, Vera Glagoleva, Marina Ratner, and Adam Darius.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Kundla ranks 7,830 out of 20,380. Before him are Cathy Ferguson (1948), Brian Setzer (1959), Cindy Williams (1947), Peter Jurasik (1950), Thomas Calabro (1959), and Elisabeth Moss (1982). After him are Paul Costello (1894), Stan Musial (1920), Tina Knowles (1954), Julian Castro (1974), Walter Johnson (1887), and Julieta Venegas (1970).

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Among BASKETBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among basketball players born in United States, John Kundla ranks 89. Before him are Frank Lubin (1910), Vince Carter (1977), Walter Davis (1954), Chuck Cooper (1926), Rudy Tomjanovich (1948), and Hal Greer (1936). After him are K. C. Jones (1932), Dell Curry (1964), David Thompson (1953), Tracy McGrady (1979), Jason Kidd (1973), and Carmelo Anthony (1984).

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