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Basketball players from Brooklyn

  • Michael JordanOn a Tuesday in the summer of 1978, Michael Jordan stood on the basketball court at Laney High School in Wilmington, North Carolina.
  • Norm DruckerNorm Drucker entered the world on the 4th of July 1920 in New York City. He grew up in Brooklyn and learned basketball from the first generation of…
  • Ossie SchectmanOssie Schectman entered the world on the 30th of March 1919 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. His parents were Jewish immigrants who had fled Russia to build a…
  • Red AuerbachArnold Jacob Auerbach arrived in the world on the 20th of September 1917. He grew up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as one of four children born to Marie and…