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NYC 1960s: Incubator of World’s Best Basketball Players


UNC's first Black scholarship player was Harlem-reared , 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 , Brooklyn’s Erasmus Hall High School, ’61, were among the NBA’s 50 Greatest Players. (KMJ Now)

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NYC 1960s: Incubator of World’s Best Basketball Players