All five answers to the questions below have something in common. Can you figure it out?

The ultimate measure of success for a trade of the magnitude of Luka-for-AD is simple: Will it lead to a title for either team?

It’s a bit of an odd award, to be sure. Since the 1985-86 season, the NBA has handed out the Most Improved Player Award, now known as the George Mikan Trophy. It’s designed to reward a player ...

Cowboys and their stadium shut out of Super Bowls, Mavericks surviving without Luka Doncic, Texas Rangers' Spring in the air and pretending to be humbled, all in this week's DFW sports notebook.

Rajon Rondo holds a very rare distinction. Over the course of his 16-year career, Rondo was a four-time All-Star, a four-time All-defensive selection, and a three-time assist leader, and although ...

Schayes scores 23 points to bring his career mark to 11,770, breaking the record of 11,764 held by George Mikan. 1958 — The NCAA rules committee makes the first change in football scoring rules ...

1952 — George Mikan scores 61 points, a career-high, to lead the Minneapolis Lakers to a 91-81 double-overtime victory over the Rochester Royals. 1966 — Ted Williams, longtime star of the Boston Red ...

and George Mikan's No. 99 jersey. Mikan was a member of the Minneapolis Lakers, of course, but L.A. retained his five championships when it relocated in 1960-61. Presumably, LeBron James' No. 23 ...

1952 — George Mikan scores 61 points, a career-high, to lead the Minneapolis Lakers to a 91-81 double-overtime victory over the Rochester Royals. 1966 — Ted Williams, longtime star of the ...

The six teams who won the title after starting at least 33-5 aren’t just from the era when the league had nine teams and everyone wondered if anybody could ever take down George Mikan.