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Ted Gustus - July 24, 2005 |
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Wednesday, 30 May 2007 |
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My man Ted Gustus, at the young old age of 30-something still was crossing people and hitting them in the head with a fierce jumper. Always coaching and giving lessons. Thanks for the memories. - anonymous
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Wednesday, 30 May 2007 |
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The best tourney in Brooklyn was not Soul in the Hole back in the day. It was almost the best. It was not Tillary park, nor was it Kingston. It wasn't even Riis Beach which Brooklyn claimed even though it was in Queens. It was not Ditmas Park, BRC nor any other. It was definitely the Breevort Tourney, where Sam Worthen, and the crew did work. It was an outdoor arena where the ball was downright nasty. We had play by play by one of the twins (forget his name) he was the black Marv Albert. Al King, Bernard King and others were killing them back in the day. - anonymous
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United Brooklyn - June 14, 2005 |
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Wednesday, 30 May 2007 |
United Brooklyn was the best PRO-AM team out of Brooklyn in the mid-to-late 80's. United Brooklyn coached by Sid Jones had won West 4th, Rucker Pro regular season champs, Ron Nelison Pro League in South Orange, N.J., Soul in the Hole, Kingston Park, and many others. Legends such as Earl Fuller, Curtis Sumpter, Jeff Merriweather, Beetle Washington, Ice Reynolds, Carey Scurry, Pete "Secret Weapon" Edwards, Carlton "Silk" Owens, John Johnson, Horace Neysmith, Russell Davis, Mo Les Roberts, Kelly Washington, Kevin Young, Cosell Brown and many more who led the way. The only regret is not having played along side my idol Sam Worthen over those years. Boof - Brooklyn, NY
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Keith Sellers - June 6, 2005 |
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Wednesday, 30 May 2007 |
In a Goodfellas Summer League in Norwalk, CT at Neon Park I witnessed one of the best individual scoring performances I have ever seen. It was the championship game and the crowd was rowdy. Many side bets were taken and the park was buzzing with anticipation. I coached one team and had a “who’s who” of Norwalk basketball talent and opposing me was a lanky 6’5” point guard by the name of Keith Sellers. Sellers is the ultimate team player and right from the tip I was in control of the game. I built up a 20 point lead. By halftime the crowd was quiet. We shut the park down….until….someone woke up Sellers. Right from the start of the second half Sellers went to work on my whole team, scoring inside and outside, blocking shots, and just plain cracking our tails. At the half he had 10 points. At the end of the game he had 45. In a 16 minute running-time game. Go figure. It was later said that someone reminded him of their bet, that if he lost he would have to smoke with them. And that wasn’t his style. – Big Ron M.A.D., Norwalk, CT
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Mitch Atwood - June 7, 2005 |
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Wednesday, 30 May 2007 |
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I was a member of the 1976 Sheepshead Bay Basketball team, and I gotta give a shout out to Mitch Atwood...Mitch was a 6'8" center who beat up on Albert King, and Stretch Graham in the same season.
That year you were not allowed to dunk, but against Stretch and his Lafayette squad down by 2 points with about 1 minute to go Mitch drives to the hoop and could have tied it up with a lay-up, but decided to throw it down and give Stretch a facial....It cost us the game as the ref blew a technical, basket didn’t count, and we went on to lose by 7, but sometimes you just gotta throw it down, and I’ll never forget the crowd going wild, and Mitch running back down court on top of the world....
Unfortunately Mitch committed suicide a couple of yrs later, and who knows how far he could have gone, but as his friend, and teammate that year, I’ll never forget the gentle giant........
RIP MITCH - bagman00
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Paul Atkins – June 3, 2005 |
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Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
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When you talk Connecticut basketball street legends it gets no better than Paul Atkins....born in New York but raised in the projects of Roodner Court in Norwalk, CT. Paul was a street legend as well as an international superstar.....ask people about him and they will tell that kid was a bad guy...nicknamed "Snake", Pa as we know him as was a virtual assassin on the black top at 6'6”, 220. Atkins was an unstoppable force at the point guard spot. - Big Ron M.A.D., Norwalk, CT
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Greatest High School baller - June 3, 2005 |
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Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
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I couldn't resist responding to who was the greatest High School basketball player. That's a hard question to answer. Some of the names I hear you guys mention have a lot of merit. How can you guys leave out names like Charlie Donavan, Erasmus Hall; Dolly King, Alexander Hamilton; Tony Jackson, Thomas Jefferson (Tony scored 56 points in play-off game in the Garden); Billy Cunningham, Erasmus Hall; and Sihugo Greene and Solly Walker from Boys High. In the movies you have everybody but the right person taking a silver dollar off the top of the backboard but the one that did it - Jackie Jackson of Boys High. How can you leave out Connie Hawkins? Roger Brown I can go on but I won't. They are all great. No one mentions Frank Thomas the man that renovated Bed-Stuy, and giving community people employment and better housing. Frank played at F.K. Lane H.S. with team-mate City Council member Al Vann. I hope you add this to the Game Over web site. Youth need to know. - Coach Murden
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Shea Cotton / Stephon Marbury - May 16, 2005 |
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Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
For you guys who keep talking about the Marbury-Cotton matchup. Let me give you the facts so you don't get the urban legend twisted and so you NYC guys give us some respect out here in Cali. Shea and Stephon did trade long range bombs, but Lincoln did not win, they lost to Mater Dei at the Above the Rim Tourney 92-77. Go look it up. Cotton finished with 33 points in the final win over the Railsplitters. He averaged 28.6 per game in the tourney as a 10th grader. MD went 36-1, losing only to Ron Mercer and Oak Hill in the finals of the Las Vegas invitational. Trust me, Stephon is not the only current NBA player Shea has gotten the best of. Ask the Collins twins and Kevin Garnett. - Ron, Long Beach, CA
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Black Ice – Nov. 27, 2003 |
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Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
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Malcolm Russell, a.k.a. “Black Ice” from Jersey is toooooo serious on the court. He’s been to Riverbank……killed ‘em. Next summer he’s trying to get to the Dyckman but he needs info on getting a squad but he’s definitely a don in Jerz. Jersey City stand up!!!!!!! - bloodytear36
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Middletown, CT - Nov. 28, 2003 |
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Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
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Place: YMCA, Middletown, CT 1999. Victims: Former starting center for the University of Connecticut, and backup forward, 6'10 and 6'7 respectively. My fearless friend Jeff and I (5'5, and 5'8) asked them to run 2 on 2. They laughed and declined....but Jeff persisted. The finally laughingly agreed. Game to 15, win by two. Jeff who we called 'Silk' has one of the smoothest jumpers in history. He shot for ball.......net. To make a long story short.....15-0. Jeff perhaps hit rim twice while draining sickening fade-a-ways off ridiculous cross-overs from 19-35 feet out. Game point was at least a 32 foot 3, fading to his left with a 6'10 skywalker flying at him. Sickness. - gary10711
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