John Kundla, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Kundla

American basketball player and coach

Date of Birth: 03-Jul-1916

Place of Birth: Star Junction, Pennsylvania, United States

Date of Death: 23-Jul-2017

Profession: basketball player, basketball coach

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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.
Thomas in Saint Paul for one season in 1946–47, and at the University of Minnesota for ten seasons, from 1959 to 1968.
He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995 and the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.