The Basketball Old-Timers Hall of Fame of America has been about for 60 years, recognizing some of the terrific movers and shakers of the activity with a weighty emphasis on NYC.
The Brooklyn-dependent firm could be chided at situations for largely overlooking Staten Island in its quest for competent candidates to be a part of a team that incorporates everyone from the likes of Knicks greats like Willie Reed and Dave DeBusschere and coaching icons Joe Lapchick and Nat Holman, to existing Cardozo HS money Ron Naclerio and voice of Madison Sq. Yard John Condon.
But over the past couple of years, that oversight has been luckily resolved.
So it is that this year’s record of inductees contains University of Pennsylvania Corridor of Famer and two-time Jaques Award winner John Engles.
Engles, a substantial college All-The us at St. Peter’s HS in the early 1970s and a foundational player on what some contemplate the finest superior college crew ever assembled on Staten Island, will sign up for five other Islanders when invited into the prestigious team on the organization’s Might 3 dinner.
Other Islanders beforehand honored to be a part of names like Red Holzman, Lou Carnesecca, Chris Mullin and Dick and Frank McGuire, are Unique Celtic and Georgetown and Notre Dame mentor Elmer Ripley NYU and abroad star Jim Signorile coaching and playing legend Matt White two-time metropolis champion mentor at Xaverian HS, Jack Alesi and one particular-time Celtic and Port Richmond HS and Manhattan University star Warren Fenley.
John Engles (21) in his participating in days at the University of Pennsylvania in 1975.
Engles, a 6-foot-8 electricity forward in his prime, joins former mentor and tv analyst Fran Fraschilla, 10-time Closing 4 ref Tim Higgins and St. John’s star Mel Utley, who performed for the Johnnies at the same time the Islander competed at Penn.
“It’s a good honor and I’m hunting forward to the party,” Engles reported not long ago from his Westchester County residence. “A whole lot of fellas I played with and in opposition to are in The Hall, and I’m looking forward to catching up with some of them.”
Some of those players from Engles’ era who are also Corridor of Fame inductees consist of St. John’s Frank Alagia, South Carolina and NBA star Mike Dunleavy, Maryland’s Len Elmore, former Boston Faculty player and mentor Jim O’Brien, St. John’s Mel Davis and the listing goes on and on.
Engles could not be any extra deserving. He was a 1,000-level higher college and higher education performer back again in the working day just before the three-point line and prior to higher education freshman eligibility. The West Brighton native was recruited by each powerhouse program of that time, from North Carolina to UCLA.
Regardless of two big knee surgeries, he was drafted by Cleveland in the fourth round of the 1976 NBA draft, the exact draft that produced Robert Parish, Adrian Dantley and Dennis Johnson, and played in Monaco prior to moving into a vocation in finance.
John Engles is broadly regarded as to be just one of the two or three very best gamers in Island history.
The activity runs in the spouse and children blood.
HIs father, Ken, was a player, and for a single 12 months throughout Earth War II, a player-catch at Georgetown. His nephew, Jim, is the present-day Columbia College head coach.
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