R.i.p. Jo Jo White

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Somehow I missed this. White passed away in January. He was a great player, and emblematic of the 1970s great battles between the Knicks and Celtics.[/quote]

Clyde Frazier was my favorite Knicks player as a kid, so that made Jo Jo White my least favorite player in the NBA. Loved the rivalry. RIP.[/quote]

Great matchups tho. Cowens vs. Reed/Lucas, Havlicek/Bradley I guess, White/Frazier, Silas/DeBusschere, Monroe/Charlie Scott.

Mullin's idol was Havlicek, which is why he took 17 in the pros, and discarded #20.
 
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Somehow I missed this. White passed away in January. He was a great player, and emblematic of the 1970s great battles between the Knicks and Celtics.[/quote]

Clyde Frazier was my favorite Knicks player as a kid, so that made Jo Jo White my least favorite player in the NBA. Loved the rivalry. RIP.[/quote]

Great matchups tho. Cowens vs. Reed/Lucas, Havlicek/Bradley I guess, White/Frazier, Silas/DeBusschere, Monroe/Charlie Scott.

Mullin's idol was Havlicek, which is why he took 17 in the pros, and discarded #20.[/quote]
Sub Don Chaney for Charley Scott. As A Clyde Frazier fan the guy I hated most was the Bullets Phil Chenier who was like a clone of Clyde. Remember a game where Chenier clipped Frazier in the face and Walt did not retaliate other than by torching Chenier in the fourth quarter by shooting 7-8.
 
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Somehow I missed this. White passed away in January. He was a great player, and emblematic of the 1970s great battles between the Knicks and Celtics.[/quote]

Clyde Frazier was my favorite Knicks player as a kid, so that made Jo Jo White my least favorite player in the NBA. Loved the rivalry. RIP.[/quote]

Great matchups tho. Cowens vs. Reed/Lucas, Havlicek/Bradley I guess, White/Frazier, Silas/DeBusschere, Monroe/Charlie Scott.

Mullin's idol was Havlicek, which is why he took 17 in the pros, and discarded #20.[/quote]
Sub Don Chaney for Charley Scott. As A Clyde Frazier fan the guy I hated most was the Bullets Phil Chenier who was like a clone of Clyde. Remember a game where Chenier clipped Frazier in the face and Walt did not retaliate other than by torching Chenier in the fourth quarter by shooting 7-8.[/quote]

Charlie Scott was in that era, no? acquired from Suns to re-energize his career? Of course, Cheney was a very good defender.

The Bullets Knicks wars were almost lcones of each other. Unseld-Reed, Debusshere/Gus Johnson, Jack Marin/Bradley, Monroe/Frazier and later Chenier. Mike Riordan as a Bullets star also (Holy Cross grad who didn't make varsity till very late).
 
I have a very vague memory of White playing at Alumni Hall and tried to come up with an all time opponent team who played against SJU at Alumni/ CA .
Came up with Rick Barry and Darrell Griffith, two fabulous players who played great games here and Marvin Barnes and Ernie DeGregorio to join White. I'm sure I missed many others and maybe some other posters will come up with some names while breaking the monotony of waiting for some big to sign.
 
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Somehow I missed this. White passed away in January. He was a great player, and emblematic of the 1970s great battles between the Knicks and Celtics.[/quote]

Clyde Frazier was my favorite Knicks player as a kid, so that made Jo Jo White my least favorite player in the NBA. Loved the rivalry. RIP.[/quote]

Great matchups tho. Cowens vs. Reed/Lucas, Havlicek/Bradley I guess, White/Frazier, Silas/DeBusschere, Monroe/Charlie Scott.

Mullin's idol was Havlicek, which is why he took 17 in the pros, and discarded #20.[/quote]
Sub Don Chaney for Charley Scott. As A Clyde Frazier fan the guy I hated most was the Bullets Phil Chenier who was like a clone of Clyde. Remember a game where Chenier clipped Frazier in the face and Walt did not retaliate other than by torching Chenier in the fourth quarter by shooting 7-8.[/quote]

Charlie Scott was in that era, no? acquired from Suns to re-energize his career? Of course, Cheney was a very good defender.

The Bullets Knicks wars were almost lcones of each other. Unseld-Reed, Debusshere/Gus Johnson, Jack Marin/Bradley, Monroe/Frazier and later Chenier. Mike Riordan as a Bullets star also (Holy Cross grad who didn't make varsity till very late).[/quote]
Those match-ups were something else, as were the games. Classics.
 
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If memory serves me right , jo Jo White ( Kansas ?) came into Alumni Hall to play SJU . They were a highly ranked team and got blown out by the Redmen . Albie Schwartz put the clamps on Jo Jo .
 
[quote="matt105" post=280909]If memory serves me right , jo Jo White ( Kansas ?) came into Alumni Hall to play SJU . They were a highly ranked team and got blown out by the Redmen . Albie Schwartz put the clamps on Jo Jo .[/quote]
Swartz. (Common error. One year, word was that Albie was selected to America's All-Maccabeen Team due to the misspelling of his name. Nice honor, except that he wasn't Jewish.)
 
matt105 wrote: If memory serves me right , jo Jo White ( Kansas ?) came into Alumni Hall to play SJU . They were a highly ranked team and got blown out by the Redmen . Albie Schwartz put the clamps on Jo Jo .

All 5'8" of him.
 
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Swartz. (Common error. One year, word was that Albie was selected to America's All-Maccabeen Team due to the misspelling of his name. Nice honor, except that he wasn't Jewish.)[/quote]
Chaminade guy
 
[quote="matt105" post=280909]If memory serves me right , jo Jo White ( Kansas ?) came into Alumni Hall to play SJU . They were a highly ranked team and got blown out by the Redmen . Albie Schwartz put the clamps on Jo Jo .[/quote]

I was still in h.s. at the time, but had my first visit to Alumni Hall thst night. Kansas, I believe, was ranked #3, but the Redmen put on a clinic that night and just destroyed KU, with White and their gigantic center, Vernon Vanoy. I remember Sonny Dove had a big game and one of the guards had a great shooting night.
 
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I saw several games at Alumni Hall that year, but don't recall that one. Aside from Swartz and Dove, that team had Rudy Bogad, Johnny Warren & I believe Carmine Calzonetti.
 
[quote="Las Vegan" post=280917][quote="matt105" post=280909]If memory serves me right , jo Jo White ( Kansas ?) came into Alumni Hall to play SJU . They were a highly ranked team and got blown out by the Redmen . Albie Schwartz put the clamps on Jo Jo .[/quote]

I was still in h.s. at the time, but had my first visit to Alumni Hall thst night. Kansas, I believe, was ranked #3, but the Redmen put on a clinic that night and just destroyed KU, with White and their gigantic center, Vernon Vanoy. I remember Sonny Dove had a big game and one of the guards had a great shotting night.[/quote]

I was there also.
 
[quote="NCJohnnie" post=280918]I saw several games at Alumni Hall that year, but don't recall that one. Aside from Swartz and Dove, that team had Rudy Bogad, Johnny Warren & I believe Carmine Calzonetti.[/quote]

I worked at a supermarket night screw one summer, maybe 1975. There was a guy who just graduated college who played bball there - Bob Bogad. In the days where a teamd got zero national coverage, we were like okay, so you played at a nothing school. Didn't realize till very recently that he played at Fairfield, started along with George Groom (Holy Cross and Bellerose) and that his brother played at St. Johns. Good thing though, because we played a few schoolyard games where I gave him absolutely zero respect although he could certainly play and was a D1 starter - who knew?
 
[quote="NCJohnnie" post=280918]I saw several games at Alumni Hall that year, but don't recall that one. Aside from Swartz and Dove, that team had Rudy Bogad, Johnny Warren & I believe Carmine Calzonetti.[/quote]

I was there but don't remember much about the game. Maybe it's because we won by 20 points. We had a pretty good starting five that year -- Dove and Warren were great players -- but a very thin bench. (Some things never change, I guess.)
 
hi, I saw many games that year.
loved warren, I remember being at his first game. I believe it was gtown.
sonny dove was great. a 6'8" power forward when teams had 6'5" centers.
in those days, you saw a player dunk maybe once every 5 games.
sonny had, it seemed, at least one a game.
 
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