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How proud to be watching two coaches on the sidelines last night both from my old neighborhood!

Mike Dunleavy who not "Sr." then was a year behind me at Nazareth, a Xaverian Bros. high school in East Flatbush. We grew up on the courts of Foster Park together, the park from "Heaven is a Playground" lore.

The year I started St. John's and Mike was a senior his team went all the way. He was a great HS player and ended up through the South Carolina pipeline with the Gamecocks and not St. John's, sadly. Mike had a fine college career and a long NBA career playing and coaching. Good for Mike to now be at Tulane.

Chris shook Mike's hand heartily after the contest last night and I don't know for sure but they must know each other well. About 7 years younger, Chris and Mike ran in the same rarefied street baller crowd on the NYC playgrounds, where they stood out in more ways than one. Legends really.

Being a Nazareth Kingsmen I was sad to see Chris go to our arch rival and nemesis Xaverian all the way out in the hinterland of Bay Ridge. Chris had to take a bunch of buses there, when he could have walked to Nazareth from his home close by. Chris lived in Flatlands right near McManus Funeral Home and Flatbush Ave. where Mike and I grew up.

Between '67 and '75 Nazareth routinely beat the Xaverian Clippers and we used to chant WE SMELL SEAWEED and SINK THE CLIPPERS at their shoreline gym in Bay Ridge, that all changed when Chris arrived in distant Bay Ridge.

Mike's son of course starred at Duke and under Coach K and we all know how hotly recruited Chris was there, and except for Looie he'd been wearing a Blue Devil uniform. Thank you Lou!

Wow, I cannot tell you what a trip down memory lane it was to see them both last night on ESPN News. And a nice victory for us and maybe a season turnaround, I sure hope so anyway. I'll be rooting for Tulane the rest of the way too.
 
How proud to be watching two coaches on the sidelines last night both from my old neighborhood!

Mike Dunleavy who not "Sr." then was a year behind me at Nazareth, a Xaverian Bros. high school in East Flatbush. We grew up on the courts of Foster Park together, the park from "Heaven is a Playground" lore.

The year I started St. John's and Mike was a senior his team went all the way. He was a great HS player and ended up through the South Carolina pipeline with the Gamecocks and not St. John's, sadly. Mike had a fine college career and a long NBA career playing and coaching. Good for Mike to now be at Tulane.

Chris shook Mike's hand heartily after the contest last night and I don't know for sure but they must know each other well. About 7 years younger, Chris and Mike ran in the same rarefied street baller crowd on the NYC playgrounds, where they stood out in more ways than one. Legends really.

Being a Nazareth Kingsmen I was sad to see Chris go to our arch rival and nemesis Xaverian all the way out in the hinterland of Bay Ridge. Chris had to take a bunch of buses there, when he could have walked to Nazareth from his home close by. Chris lived in Flatlands right near McManus Funeral Home and Flatbush Ave. where Mike and I grew up.

Between '67 and '75 Nazareth routinely beat the Xaverian Clippers and we used to chant WE SMELL SEAWEED and SINK THE CLIPPERS at their shoreline gym in Bay Ridge, that all changed when Chris arrived in distant Bay Ridge.

Mike's son of course starred at Duke and under Coach K and we all know how hotly recruited Chris was there, and except for Looie he'd been wearing a Blue Devil uniform. Thank you Lou!

Wow, I cannot tell you what a trip down memory lane it was to see them both last night on ESPN News. And a nice victory for us and maybe a season turnaround, I sure hope so anyway. I'll be rooting for Tulane the rest of the way too.
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Guess after schleppin in to the city for a year while he attended Power, Bay Ridge probably seemed like a stone's throw away. FWIW My Moms side of family from Canarsie. A few of my relatives are some of the last remaining Italian-Americans in Canarsie.
 
I had the opportunity to see Mike Dunleavy play in high school . I think it was at the Msgr King tournament . He was one of the few players that I ever saw who could do whatever he wanted to do on the court .
I didn't see CM play in High School but saw him play all 4 years at SJU>. I was surprised that the TV people did not play up the Brooklyn issue during the broadcast last night .
 
How proud to be watching two coaches on the sidelines last night both from my old neighborhood!

Mike Dunleavy who not "Sr." then was a year behind me at Nazareth, a Xaverian Bros. high school in East Flatbush. We grew up on the courts of Foster Park together, the park from "Heaven is a Playground" lore.

The year I started St. John's and Mike was a senior his team went all the way. He was a great HS player and ended up through the South Carolina pipeline with the Gamecocks and not St. John's, sadly. Mike had a fine college career and a long NBA career playing and coaching. Good for Mike to now be at Tulane.

Chris shook Mike's hand heartily after the contest last night and I don't know for sure but they must know each other well. About 7 years younger, Chris and Mike ran in the same rarefied street baller crowd on the NYC playgrounds, where they stood out in more ways than one. Legends really.

Being a Nazareth Kingsmen I was sad to see Chris go to our arch rival and nemesis Xaverian all the way out in the hinterland of Bay Ridge. Chris had to take a bunch of buses there, when he could have walked to Nazareth from his home close by. Chris lived in Flatlands right near McManus Funeral Home and Flatbush Ave. where Mike and I grew up.

Between '67 and '75 Nazareth routinely beat the Xaverian Clippers and we used to chant WE SMELL SEAWEED and SINK THE CLIPPERS at their shoreline gym in Bay Ridge, that all changed when Chris arrived in distant Bay Ridge.

Mike's son of course starred at Duke and under Coach K and we all know how hotly recruited Chris was there, and except for Looie he'd been wearing a Blue Devil uniform. Thank you Lou!

Wow, I cannot tell you what a trip down memory lane it was to see them both last night on ESPN News. And a nice victory for us and maybe a season turnaround, I sure hope so anyway. I'll be rooting for Tulane the rest of the way too.
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Greetings fellow Kingsmam!  I was a freshman at St. John's when Mike was a freshman at Nazareth but I still attended many Nazareth games and never missed the Xaverian rivalry games until I got drafted.
By destiny, I was sent to Fort Jackson for training and Mike was a freshman playing for coach McGuire who was the ultimate gentleman coach.  Met him and the rest of the Gamecock New Yorkers and was at a couple of games in Columbia.
Here are some names for you: Brother Thaddeus, Jim McMorrow,  Mr. Phillips, Brother Mathew Burke, and Mr. Agudio. 
I had the pleasure of working with Kenny Kirkland's sister Sally for many years at the New York City Board of Education.  To this day I listen to his music as I am a jazz fan. The Kirkland family dedicated a music room at Nazareth in his memory.
Coach Mullin and coach Dunleavy know each other well from the NBA circuit but had Mully lost to Mike I may have started joining the Bucknasty far right wing group.
 
Dunleavy was almost unrecognizable to me with the semi-shaved head. Looked older than the 62 Wiki puts him at.

Loved his blazer !!!!
 
Monte--Nazareth was on the edge of E. Flatbush and Carnesie and many people called that area Carnesie, which when I was there in the 50's, 60's and mid 70's was heavily Italian American, a solid middle class place. It's distance from Manhattan and few transportation hubs made it seem a bit more "remote" and thus exotic to those from the "junction" of Flatbush and Nostrand Avenues.

Matt 105-- I don't think the announcers last night had a clue of the deep Bklyn connections of the two coaches forget about (fuhgitabot) them both growing up a few blocks apart. Whose NBA career is better Dunleavy Sr. or Jr.?

I am pretty sure Mike's dad who I think managed our local A&P Supermarket and Roddy Mullin knew each other too, Roddy being a US Customs officer at JFK Airport if I am not mistaken.

Class of 72--first thank you for your service. next, you might have been the first class to go through all four years at Nazareth, it was still a very new school when I went there from '67-'71. Did they have "Field Days versus Xaverian for the Brothers' Trophy when you were there?? Competition in all sports intramural and when I was there we won the Cup I think all four years.

Coach and gym teacher Jim McMorrow I remember well, he also was s sophomore guard on the superb '51-'52 SJU squad that vanquished heavily favorite Rupp Kentucky team en routs to a loss in the Finals against a super Kansas team.

I remember those names you mentioned and also Brother John of the Cross, Brother Bruno (my J.V. BB coach--he cut me) and Brother Clyde who called everyone "Star", very sarcastically. If you wanted you could have gotten a great education at Nazareth even though Xaverian, being non-Dioescan, was considered academically superior.

I forget that Mullin went to Power before transferring to Xaverian, it must have been when Power Memorial closed its doors.
 
BrookJersey Redmen Wrote:
How proud to be watching two coaches on the sidelines last night both from my old neighborhood!

Mike Dunleavy who not "Sr." then was a year behind me at Nazareth, a Xaverian Bros. high school in East Flatbush. We grew up on the courts of Foster Park together, the park from "Heaven is a Playground" lore.

The year I started St. John's and Mike was a senior his team went all the way. He was a great HS player and ended up through the South Carolina pipeline with the Gamecocks and not St. John's, sadly. Mike had a fine college career and a long NBA career playing and coaching. Good for Mike to now be at Tulane.

Chris shook Mike's hand heartily after the contest last night and I don't know for sure but they must know each other well. About 7 years younger, Chris and Mike ran in the same rarefied street baller crowd on the NYC playgrounds, where they stood out in more ways than one. Legends really.

Being a Nazareth Kingsmen I was sad to see Chris go to our arch rival and nemesis Xaverian all the way out in the hinterland of Bay Ridge. Chris had to take a bunch of buses there, when he could have walked to Nazareth from his home close by. Chris lived in Flatlands right near McManus Funeral Home and Flatbush Ave. where Mike and I grew up.

Between '67 and '75 Nazareth routinely beat the Xaverian Clippers and we used to chant WE SMELL SEAWEED and SINK THE CLIPPERS at their shoreline gym in Bay Ridge, that all changed when Chris arrived in distant Bay Ridge.

Mike's son of course starred at Duke and under Coach K and we all know how hotly recruited Chris was there, and except for Looie he'd been wearing a Blue Devil uniform. Thank you Lou!

Wow, I cannot tell you what a trip down memory lane it was to see them both last night on ESPN News. And a nice victory for us and maybe a season turnaround, I sure hope so anyway. I'll be rooting for Tulane the rest of the way too.

Great Post! Love all the local history!
 
Sorry to break up the Brooklyn and Nazareth reunion (i was born in Manhattan but moved to Queens early on) just my two cents:

Class of 72, Nice taste in Music (Kenny Kirland)



Sting/Kenny Kirkland/Daryll Jones/Omar Hakim/Branford Marsalis

BrookJersey, I don't think the announcers from last night's game had a clue period.
 
Monte--Nazareth was on the edge of E. Flatbush and Carnesie and many people called that area Carnesie, which when I was there in the 50's, 60's and mid 70's was heavily Italian American, a solid middle class place. It's distance from Manhattan and few transportation hubs made it seem a bit more "remote" and thus exotic to those from the "junction" of Flatbush and Nostrand Avenues.

Matt 105-- I don't think the announcers last night had a clue of the deep Bklyn connections of the two coaches forget about (fuhgitabot) them both growing up a few blocks apart. Whose NBA career is better Dunleavy Sr. or Jr.?

I am pretty sure Mike's dad who I think managed our local A&P Supermarket and Roddy Mullin knew each other too, Roddy being a US Customs officer at JFK Airport if I am not mistaken.

Class of 72--first thank you for your service. next, you might have been the first class to go through all four years at Nazareth, it was still a very new school when I went there from '67-'71. Did they have "Field Days versus Xaverian for the Brothers' Trophy when you were there?? Competition in all sports intramural and when I was there we won the Cup I think all four years.

Coach and gym teacher Jim McMorrow I remember well, he also was s sophomore guard on the superb '51-'52 SJU squad that vanquished heavily favorite Rupp Kentucky team en routs to a loss in the Finals against a super Kansas team.

I remember those names you mentioned and also Brother John of the Cross, Brother Bruno (my J.V. BB coach--he cut me) and Brother Clyde who called everyone "Star", very sarcastically. If you wanted you could have gotten a great education at Nazareth even though Xaverian, being non-Dioescan, was considered academically superior.

I forget that Mullin went to Power before transferring to Xaverian, it must have been when Power Memorial closed its doors.
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Mr. McMorrow was a great guy. I reunited with him over 10 years after graduating when we were both working for the NYC Board of Education. He was then the basketball coach at Brooklyn Tech. His most famous alum was Lorenzo Charles who played for Jim Valvano.
Do you remember the late Mr. Buckley who was my Economics teacher. He inspired me to major in Economics at SJU.
Brother Russell inspired me to be aggressive. Did you know he left the Xaverian brotherhood to become a corrections officer? LOL! A fitting occupation for a guy who loved to administer corporal punishment. :cheer:
Jack Alesi, long time Xaverian basketball coach, was a Kingsman. He was groomed by Lou Piccola who coached Chris Mullin while Jack was the assistant.
I lost my yearbooks in Superstorm Sandy so now I have to rely on my ever increasing faulty memory. ;)

BTW, do you recall Nazareth star Stewart Granger? He went on to play at Villanova but played against Mullin in his final two years in the Old Big East. If you are reading this Redmannorth Stewart was a Montreal kid. ;)
 
What really needs to happen, is Mike Dunleavy coach out rest of season or maybe two and join Mullin as an assistant HC. That's the kinda guy we really could use.
 
FWIW.....

Myself, Fr. Rock (his birthday was Thursday) and a few members of the SJU staff were having lunch yesterday and struck up a conversation with the manager of the restaurant (Cornet on Bourbon Street). Fellow graduated from the University of New Orleans about 20 years ago and played in the Astro farm system for 3 years.

He really knew the Louisiana college sports scene and said Dunleavy was making about $150K a year which really surprised me.

He spoke with us for at least 40 minutes and was asking about Walter Berry as well as Chris and his team.

Apparently Tulane has 3 kids coming in next year. Never know how good they are until they show up and compete.

He was such a nice guy we made him an honorary Redmen and I just sent him some SJU apparel which he said he would definitely wear.
 
FWIW.....

Myself, Fr. Rock (his birthday was Thursday) and a few members of the SJU staff were having lunch yesterday and struck up a conversation with the manager of the restaurant (Cornet on Bourbon Street). Fellow graduated from the University of New Orleans about 20 years ago and played in the Astro farm system for 3 years.

He really knew the Louisiana college sports scene and said Dunleavy was making about $150K a year which really surprised me.

He spoke with us for at least 40 minutes and was asking about Walter Berry as well as Chris and his team.

Apparently Tulane has 3 kids coming in next year. Never know how good they are until they show up and compete.

He was such a nice guy we made him an honorary Redmen and I just sent him some SJU apparel which he said he would definitely wear.
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hard to believe $150K when Slice was making 3 times that much SMH
That's Looie money back in the day.
 
FWIW.....

Myself, Fr. Rock (his birthday was Thursday) and a few members of the SJU staff were having lunch yesterday and struck up a conversation with the manager of the restaurant (Cornet on Bourbon Street). Fellow graduated from the University of New Orleans about 20 years ago and played in the Astro farm system for 3 years.

He really knew the Louisiana college sports scene and said Dunleavy was making about $150K a year which really surprised me.

He spoke with us for at least 40 minutes and was asking about Walter Berry as well as Chris and his team.

Apparently Tulane has 3 kids coming in next year. Never know how good they are until they show up and compete.

He was such a nice guy we made him an honorary Redmen and I just sent him some SJU apparel which he said he would definitely wear.
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hard to believe $150K when Slice was making 3 times that much SMH
That's Looie money back in the day.
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Binghamton and Albany coaches have base salaries in excess of $200,000 plus incentives.
 
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