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Ken Suesens

American basketball player and coach

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 22, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Kenneth Glenn Suesens was the head coach of the Sheboygan Red Skins of the National Basketball Association from 1948 to 1951. Under him, they would go 1–2 in the playoffs. He was born in Des Moines, Iowa to John F. Suesens and Martha Duran.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ken Suesens” as american basketball player and coach. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1948, 1951—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Suesens, American and basketball can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american basketball player and coach. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 22, 2025. The first chronological checks are 1948 and 1951.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ken Suesens” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.