NYC 1960s: Incubator of World’s Best Basketball Players
Posted Jan 1, 2021
UNC's first Black scholarship player was Harlem-reared Charlie Scott, the future Hall of Famer who attended Manhattan’s Stuyvesant High School before transferring to Laurinburg Institute in North Carolina. Several other NYC players, including Billy Cunningham, Brooklyn’s Erasmus Hall High School, ’61, were among the NBA’s 50 Greatest Players.
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