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Mogbo was raised in Wellington, FLA, about 16 miles west of West Palm Beach. His mom is Jamaican and his dad, Chuck, is of Nigerian descent. He’s the baby of the family. His two stepbrothers, Charles and Bryan, are both two decades his senior and were already adults and out of the house by the time he and his older brother Zach grew up. He and Zach are three years apart. “I was very spoiled, I’ll say that,” Mogbo admitted. “Very spoiled.”
Cousy, who has lived in West Palm Beach for 35 years but this winter remained at his home in Worcester, Mass., said the only time the vaccine came up in their conversation was when Fauci asked if he had received it. Cousy told him he had not but he was not worried about it and his daughter was working on it. “I wasn't concerned but I simply answered his question and that was the extent of it,” Cousy said. “He didn’t say anything further."
Chris Kirschner: John Collins is partnering with the NBPA to provide funding for GOODR to set up two pop-up grocery stores that will provide food and essential items to over 500 people in his hometown of West Palm Beach. Amazing gesture from John.
Guerin, who is retired and lives in West Palm Beach, was shopping with his wife, Pat, at Costco on Friday morning when he received a call from FOX Sports Florida. He had no idea he had been inducted until he was told. “I didn’t know,’’ said Guerin, 80. “Is that right? Well, I really do appreciate you telling me. That’s a total surprise. I did not hear that.’’ The 6-foot-4 Guerin was a guard for the New York Knicks and St. Louis and Atlanta Hawks from 1956-70. He averaged 17.3 points, including 29.5 for the Knicks in 1961-62.
Sunday night's game earned a 7.9 overnight rating for ESPN, a record for an NBA playoff game on cable, according to Nielsen, whose records date back to 2003. The game drew a 20.7 rating in Boston, 19.8 in Miami and 11.8 in West Palm Beach, which ranked sixth in the country.
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In a sign that the ongoing NBA lockout may be taking a toll on the league’s players, Miami Heat forward Mike Miller has put his West Palm Beach, Florida property on the market. Fresh off of signing a 5-year, $25 million contract with the Heat in 2010, the 11-year NBA veteran paid $5.4 million for the six-bedroom, nine-bathroom Mediterranean mansion. He has listed the Pompano Beach property for $8.995 million.
Alonzo Mourning, who now works for the Heat organization as the VP of Player Programs and Development, addressed the state of the team in an interview Friday with West Palm Beach’s 760ESPN. “Talent just does not win, ok? There’s a growth process that every team has to go through in order to bond and develop some chemistry, defensively and offensively, that will make a team successful down the road. And this team right here, because of the personnel that we do have, people expect big things. But we as being basketball operations, and players that truly truly know the game, like basically I know the game, [know] that it doesn’t happen that way.
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