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Orlando Magic guard Cole Anthony left Archbishop Molloy in Queens for Oak Hill Academy in Virginia. Detroit Pistons forward Taj Gibson left Brooklyn for Stoneridge Prep in California. Philadelphia 76ers center Mo Bamba left the Bronx for Westtown School in Pennsylvania. “There are still players that come (out of) New York, but the problem is so many of them leave,” said Ron Naclerio, the head coach at Benjamin N. Cardozo High School in Queens and the all-time winningest public school coach in New York history. “I hate that it’s happening,” he added.
Randle jumped on the Hoopbus in the Bronx and Manhattan on Thursday and is scheduled to give Christmas gifts to children in Queens on Friday. The Hoopbus Inc., is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has a basketball goal hanging on the front of it. Randle passed out his Skechers signature shoes, basketballs and more to children as gifts. Randle said he realized that the Knicks were a global brand when he was recognized on vacation in Italy. But the Knicks star said he has been wanting to be present for a Christmas giveaway in New York City boroughs for years.
Carmelo Anthony is headlining the 2024 class of the revamped New York City Basketball Hall of Fame, The Post has learned. Anthony, the Brooklyn native and former Knicks All-Star, will be joined in the class by streetball legend Joe Hammond and former Christ the King (Queens) and New York Liberty star Tina Charles, among others.
Michael Singer: Malone, asked whether there’d be any prep work before either Miami or Boston clinch. “No we’re just going to show up for Game 1.” (Read in the all-sarcastic font, preferably with a Queens accent).
The exclusion prompted the SLA to assign investigator Charles Stravalle, a retired police captain, to determine if MSG can keep serving booze at Knicks and Rangers games, The New York Times reported. Banning only some sports fanatics could violate state beverage laws requiring establishments admit the general public. According to the Times, Stravalle called the NYPD after he was tailed for over 100 miles by a black Chevrolet — right up to his return home in Queens, where the Chevy driver remained camped out with a camera pointed toward Stravalle’s house.
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Former NBA player Ben Gordon made bail after an alleged violent incident at LaGuardia Airport, only to be rearrested hours later. The ex-shooting guard was first cuffed at the Queens airport around 7:45 p.m. Monday after punching his child in the face with a closed fist, sources said.
Donovan Mitchell in Queens tonight at the Mets-Yankees game pic.twitter.com/wh4O3J245O
— Tommy Beer (@TommyBeer) July 26, 2022
NBA veteran and Brooklyn, New York, native Carmelo Anthony made some off-court news Friday, sharing where his son, Kiyan, plans to go high school -- Christ the King High School in Queens, a borough of New York City. For basketball fans, the news about where Kiyan plans to go made noise because of the school's associations with basketball history through its alumni.
Tom Konchalski, the rail-thin 6-foot-6 patron saint of basketball, a lifelong native of Queens, New York and a devout Catholic who attended mass daily, is regarded as the most respected evaluator of high school basketball talent in history. He nurtured countless New York City ball-players and helped change countless lives through basketball. My dad, Ernie, was one of the first New York City kids Tom discovered. He was like family to us. He looked after me as a young player just like he had looked after my dad.
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Hayes had not yet played a game in the NBA, but he was in Queens for the King event. And still a student, Alcindor, a Manhattan native who gained prominence for his social stances in support of boxer Muhammad Ali in 1967, was back in town. Dressed in a dashiki, he drew a crowd when he arrived. “Dr. King stood for holding America accountable for what it said it was about,” Abdul-Jabbar says. “We are supposed to be the land of the free and the home of the brave. Dr. King wanted America to be held up, accountable to that aspiration.”
“So he sits down, I’m just kind of shooting the shit with him, and he says ‘I need a tuna sub from Subway and some chamomile tea,'” Hehir recalled. “It was like Chappelle sending the guys for a sugar cookie in Queens. Unless you pass this test, you cannot do this interview. So we got him the tuna sub, we got him the chamomile tea, and he sat down for three hours.”
Ian Begley: Queens native Nancy Lieberman and Suns forward Josh Jackson will be appearing in Detroit for the refurbishment of the Erma Henderson basketball court on Tuesday morning. Detroit is Jackson’s hometown and he played on the court growing up. Lieberman coached & played in the city.
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