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Best Brooklyn-Born NBA Players of All Time

Posted on: March 25th, 2013 by Rick Barry1971 11 Comments

Bernard King

The former Nets and Knicks superstar -- 19,655 points lifetime -- attended Ft. Hamilton High School in Bay Ridge.

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    Chris Whalen

    March 25, 2013

    Great, interesting read, but Red Auerbach should be here. I know he wasn’t a player, but he left a huge impact on the NBA.

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      WynnDuffy

      March 25, 2013

      We differ in our opinions here.

      I despised Red immediately when I started following the NBA 50 plus years ago.

      If I had still been in Manhattan when Auerbach died, I would had thrown a “Red Is Dead” party (I had been waiting for so long).

      Trading Bernard was the 2nd or third worst move the Nets franchise ever made. I blame Kevin Loughery for that, and truly understand why no team would even give KL a feeler to be an NBA coach since the ’80s

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        Chris Whalen

        March 25, 2013

        I understand your hatred for Red, he made himself very easy to hate. But you can’t discount his role as head coach(and really, he did everything) of the greatest NBA dynasty ever. Love him or hate him, you have to respect Red, his knowledge of the game, and his impact on the NBA.

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          WynnDuffy

          March 26, 2013

          Yeah, I imagine you’d have to respect Hitler too, for all he accomplished.

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            Devin Kharpertian

            March 26, 2013

            Godwin’s law: activated

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              M I K E

              March 26, 2013

              LOL…I heard Hitler only played with one ball…Maybe he would a made a great Nets coach.

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              WynnDuffy

              March 26, 2013

              Should Hitler be respected for his accomplishments?

              Hell, Mussolini got the trains to run on time.

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          WynnDuffy

          March 26, 2013

          Yeah, I guess you have to give Hitler credit for what he accomplished while he was GM of Germany.

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            M I K E

            March 26, 2013

            I love how everybody always blames the poor GM and Coach.

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    Rick Barry1971

    March 25, 2013

    He does seem to have a good Brooklyn pedigree. Says Wikipedia:

    Here’s a piece from BrooklynRail about Red’s Brooklyn roots:

    http://www.brooklynrail.org/2001/05/local/red-remembers-brooklyn

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    M I K E

    March 26, 2013

    It’s funny how when I was growing up everybody wanted to get as far away from Brooklyn as possible and now everybody wants to get in…Live long enough and everything comes full circle.

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