Best player at your high school when you attended ?
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[quote="panther2" post=298985][quote="Sju grad 13" post=298945]Some guy named Vernon teel at Flushing Hs. He really wanted to play for St. John’s but they didn’t offer. Heard he went to a school in the south.[/quote]
Vernon played for me in AAU. He went to LIU for two years and then transferred to Loyola Marymount when Bill Bayno was the coach there. He played overseas for a few years.[/quote]
Oh wow thanks. I remember when I transferred to Flushing Hs and he was scoring against everybody. He had back to back games of 40 and 50 points for Flushing.
Our game plan : Pass the ball to Vernon and move out the way.
Vernon played for me in AAU. He went to LIU for two years and then transferred to Loyola Marymount when Bill Bayno was the coach there. He played overseas for a few years.[/quote]
Oh wow thanks. I remember when I transferred to Flushing Hs and he was scoring against everybody. He had back to back games of 40 and 50 points for Flushing.
Our game plan : Pass the ball to Vernon and move out the way.
Nazareth HS Canarsie, Brooklyn, I was class of '71, but one year behind me was Mike Dunleavy Sr., class of '72. He was a great High School BB player, went to University of South Carolina. He lived real close near me in Flatbush and not too far from Chris Mullin in Flatlands, though Chris was about 10 years younger.
Mike had a very nice NBA career, playing and coaching. Now he coaches NCAA at University of New Orleans. His son Mike Dunleavy Jr. did alright for himself at Duke and in the NBA. I think he has another son, an assistant at Villanova (may have played there too.)
I think Mike's '72 team won the CHSAA championship.
I played pickup ball against him in Foster Park on Nostrand Ave. My buddy who didn't play varsity at Nazareth always held his own with the future NBAer. Mike is a good guy. In the mold of the street wise Bklyn kids I grew up with.
Mike had a very nice NBA career, playing and coaching. Now he coaches NCAA at University of New Orleans. His son Mike Dunleavy Jr. did alright for himself at Duke and in the NBA. I think he has another son, an assistant at Villanova (may have played there too.)
I think Mike's '72 team won the CHSAA championship.
I played pickup ball against him in Foster Park on Nostrand Ave. My buddy who didn't play varsity at Nazareth always held his own with the future NBAer. Mike is a good guy. In the mold of the street wise Bklyn kids I grew up with.
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Jimmy Wright was a Senior when I was a Freshman and the team won the City PSAL B Division Championship (we were an A Division school but we did not have a home court as our gym was undergoing renovations). Team went undefeated. Wright went to Rhode Island where he average double figures his last three years there.. Was drafted by the NBA but I believed played overseas.
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billthetruth
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Kenny Anderson (Georgia Tech)
Robert Werdann
Ralph James (Harvard)
Steven Frazier (Miami a classmate at Molloy and one of Leonard Hamilton’s first recruits at Miami)
One of greatest games I ever attended was Molloy (Anderson Werdann) vs. Tolentine (the late great Malik Sealy, Bryan Reece, Adrian Autry) City Championship at Rose Hill.
Autry with 2 killer late 3s from left side
Robert Werdann
Ralph James (Harvard)
Steven Frazier (Miami a classmate at Molloy and one of Leonard Hamilton’s first recruits at Miami)
One of greatest games I ever attended was Molloy (Anderson Werdann) vs. Tolentine (the late great Malik Sealy, Bryan Reece, Adrian Autry) City Championship at Rose Hill.
Autry with 2 killer late 3s from left side
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Dan V
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Went to Benjamin Banneker Academy in Clinton Hill few blocks away from Loughlin, best player while i was there was Jaytornah Wisseh, dude played for like every team. Leading scorer for the basketball and soccer team. He played 4 years at LIU and was a really good player for them averaged like 14 a game for his career there. Still playing overseas if im not mistaken. His younger brother played at Xaverian a few years ago was a pretty good player too.
Now the best player from my neighborhood was Russ Smith who led the city in scoring at Molloy and won a NC at Louisville. We grew up on the same block, my mom used to baby sit his little brother. He averaged like 50 a game in CYO at St. Cecilia's lol for comparison I think I averaged like 5 ppg when i played for them. Shame that no nba team will give him a chance he can score at any level, scored like 60 a game in China last time i checked and he was lighting up the G League too when he was there.
Now the best player from my neighborhood was Russ Smith who led the city in scoring at Molloy and won a NC at Louisville. We grew up on the same block, my mom used to baby sit his little brother. He averaged like 50 a game in CYO at St. Cecilia's lol for comparison I think I averaged like 5 ppg when i played for them. Shame that no nba team will give him a chance he can score at any level, scored like 60 a game in China last time i checked and he was lighting up the G League too when he was there.
[quote="william t. cicio" post=299020]Graduated Boys High 1950. Solly Walker. Went onto to St. John's and the rest is history.[/quote]
The great Solly Walker. St. John's stood up for freedom in those years. And Solly persevered with dignity and humanity. Thank you for sharing.
The great Solly Walker. St. John's stood up for freedom in those years. And Solly persevered with dignity and humanity. Thank you for sharing.
[quote="william t. cicio" post=299020]Graduated Boys High 1950. Solly Walker. Went onto to St. John's and the rest is history.[/quote]
http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2017/may/05/basketball-pioneer-solly-walker-passes/
Walker— ..... St. John’s University’s first Black player under the iconic coach Frank McGuire—faced the legendary Adolph Rupp and his Kentucky Wildcats Dec. 17, 1951, he forever solidified his place in the Civil Rights Movement.
Taking the court on Kentucky’s home floor against Rupp, who began coaching at Kentucky in 1930, two years before Walker’s birth, Walker sent shockwaves through the community the moment he became the only Black player to ever take on the Wildcats in their building.
The young Walker didn’t allow the moment to hinder his performance. He made good on six of his first seven shots in front of an antagonistic crowd before exiting with an injury and not returning. But the impact of his groundbreaking appearance was indelible.
St. John’s went 25-6 for the season and reached the NCAA finals, losing to Kansas and their celebrated coach Phog Allen 80-63. But it was in Kentucky where Walker foreshadowed what college basketball would one day become—a game dominated by Black players.
http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2017/may/05/basketball-pioneer-solly-walker-passes/
Walker— ..... St. John’s University’s first Black player under the iconic coach Frank McGuire—faced the legendary Adolph Rupp and his Kentucky Wildcats Dec. 17, 1951, he forever solidified his place in the Civil Rights Movement.
Taking the court on Kentucky’s home floor against Rupp, who began coaching at Kentucky in 1930, two years before Walker’s birth, Walker sent shockwaves through the community the moment he became the only Black player to ever take on the Wildcats in their building.
The young Walker didn’t allow the moment to hinder his performance. He made good on six of his first seven shots in front of an antagonistic crowd before exiting with an injury and not returning. But the impact of his groundbreaking appearance was indelible.
St. John’s went 25-6 for the season and reached the NCAA finals, losing to Kansas and their celebrated coach Phog Allen 80-63. But it was in Kentucky where Walker foreshadowed what college basketball would one day become—a game dominated by Black players.
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I graduated 57 years after the 1950 class. Don't even want to do the math with Jack Williams :lol: :woohoo:
Graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in 1954.
Our star wasJohn Lee. He was a scholar and a great ball player. He lived out of our district so our coach told him to say he wanted to go to Erasmus and study German and become a doctor. Midwood did not have German so he went to Erasmus.
After being all city he was wooed by Yale and N.Carolina. He picked Yale because he said that after 4 years he would have an Ivy League education and at N. Carolina he would have a 4 year old convertible...He graduated from Yale and after becoming a basketball legend there, he was a second round Knick's draft choice.
He opt for graduate school and eventually made a fortune as CEO of large oil companies.
John was responsible for obtaining the largest cumulative donations to Yale's endowment funds raising over a billion dollars.
In his honor the Yale basketball arena was and is named the John Lee Arena.
ALLNET
Our star wasJohn Lee. He was a scholar and a great ball player. He lived out of our district so our coach told him to say he wanted to go to Erasmus and study German and become a doctor. Midwood did not have German so he went to Erasmus.
After being all city he was wooed by Yale and N.Carolina. He picked Yale because he said that after 4 years he would have an Ivy League education and at N. Carolina he would have a 4 year old convertible...He graduated from Yale and after becoming a basketball legend there, he was a second round Knick's draft choice.
He opt for graduate school and eventually made a fortune as CEO of large oil companies.
John was responsible for obtaining the largest cumulative donations to Yale's endowment funds raising over a billion dollars.
In his honor the Yale basketball arena was and is named the John Lee Arena.
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[quote="gman" post=299017][quote="Roamer" post=299016]Not in my town but next small town over Wally Szerbiack (SP). Was not highly recruited but whenever he played he made it seem so easy dropping 40 plus points every game.[/quote]
My alma mater[/quote]
I was going to say that I though you were much younger than him but he's still only 41 y.o. Surprised at that.
My alma mater[/quote]
I was going to say that I though you were much younger than him but he's still only 41 y.o. Surprised at that.
I was Bronx High School of Science Class of 88 - Shockingly two of the school’s best athletes shared some time at the school with me.
Basketball
Craig Carter ‘87 - Rutgers - two time captain that helped lead the Scarlet Knights to their last two NCAA tournaments in 1989 and 1991. Long time assistant coach(currently working with the Wisconsin Lady Badgers)
Water Polo/Swimmer in HS
Wolf Wigo -‘91 - swimmer of the decade in the PSAL
Stanford - Four Year All American in Water Polo
Olympics- 1996, 2000, 2004 (First player born east of the Rockies to make the Olympic team in 40 years)
Long time Coach of Men’s and Women’s Water Polo at UC Santa Barbara
NBC analyst covering Water Polo for the Olympics.
Basketball
Craig Carter ‘87 - Rutgers - two time captain that helped lead the Scarlet Knights to their last two NCAA tournaments in 1989 and 1991. Long time assistant coach(currently working with the Wisconsin Lady Badgers)
Water Polo/Swimmer in HS
Wolf Wigo -‘91 - swimmer of the decade in the PSAL
Stanford - Four Year All American in Water Polo
Olympics- 1996, 2000, 2004 (First player born east of the Rockies to make the Olympic team in 40 years)
Long time Coach of Men’s and Women’s Water Polo at UC Santa Barbara
NBC analyst covering Water Polo for the Olympics.
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