Hoops tradition in Brooklyn stretches back to Connie Hawkins, Billy Cunningham and World B. Free. For Neptune, who succeeds Jay Wright at Villanova, this was his basketball upbringing.
NEW YORK – Early afternoon, life was just coming to the playground. A man shot at the only rim that had a fully hanging net. Another soon showed up with a ball and a dog. A mother brought her baby daughter in for some exercise.
“We kind of honed our craft there,” Bradley said over the phone about Emerson Park. “It was some of the best of the hood. We were going hard-core on the concrete.” “My mom was — don’t say an accountant; I don’t think she had that certification — but she had accounting-type jobs at high-level type places,” Neptune said. “She worked at Showtime, at Viacom. She worked for Coach. She had high-level corporate-type jobs. Eventually, she stopped working. My dad was an insurance adjuster, something with insurance for years and years.”
“That was an open train yard, a deep hole,” Neptune said of the nearby spot where Kevin Durant now calls home.Hoops in Brooklyn always has had a rich and proud tradition stretching back to Connie Hawkins and Bernard and Albert King and Fly Williams and the borough’s great contributions to the Sixers, Billy Cunningham and World B. Free and even Larry Brown. Players such as Steph Marbury continued the tradition, then his cousin Telfair came along.
“C Division,” Neptune said, making a point of emphasizing the C. Still, a big deal. Kyle scored 1,650 points, most in school history, and Brooklyn Friends beat another private school featuring Joakim Noah along the way to that title.Maybe there is no typical path out of Brooklyn Friends, but it’s more likely alums end up working in Brooklyn Borough Hall across the street or they attend Brooklyn Law School right there near the Brooklyn Bridge than end up in big-time basketball.
He’s a special guy. He was the kind of guy you would hate to play against at recess. But if you played with him, it was the most confidence you would have.“Relationships in NY from guys that played at Nova,” Chambers texted about where he heard of Neptune.
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