John Andrew Mackin (né Macknowski; January 7, 1923) is a Russian-born American former professional basketball player. He played in the National Basketball League (NBL) and National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Syracuse Nationals franchise as the team moved from the NBL into the NBA.
Macknowski played college basketball for the Seton Hall Pirates where he started as a freshman in the 1941–42 season and then served three years of military service during World War II. He returned to the Pirates and played from 1945 to 1948.
Personal life
After his playing career, Macknowski worked as an English, history and philosophy teacher.
In 1952 he changed his surname from Macknowski to Mackin. He has three daughters with his wife, Olga, who predeceased him in December 2016, aged 90. As of September 2017, Mackinowski, then 94, resided at a retirement village in Morristown, Tennessee. He turned 100 in 2023, becoming only the second NBA player to turn 100, after Whitey Von Nieda.
Career statistics
NBL
Source
Regular season
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 1948–49
| style="text-align:left;"| Syracuse
| 62 || 146 || 128 || 178 || .719 || 420 || 6.8
|}
Playoffs
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| 1949
| style="text-align:left;"| Syracuse
| 6 || 3 || 7 || 9 || .778 || 13 || 2.2
|}
NBA
Source
Regular season
Playoffs
References
1923 births
Living people
American Basketball League (1925–1955) players
American men's basketball players
Basketball players from Jersey City, New Jersey
Lincoln High School (New Jersey) alumni
Forwards (basketball) Guards (basketball) Rochester Royals draft picks Seton Hall Pirates men's basketball players Syracuse Nationals players Soviet emigrants to the United States American centenarians Men centenarians