Best Basketball Player From New England

[cdif911]

Edit: OK, i just removed my name from the list before anyone responded with "Who the blank was that?" 

shoulda left it - I always wanted to put my name in the NBA Draft just to see if any team would be dumb enough to scout me

[Amonkey]

How about Ryan Gomes?

[Redz]

Edit: OK, i just removed my name from the list before anyone responded with "Who the blank was that?" 

shoulda left it - I always wanted to put my name in the NBA Draft just to see if any team would be dumb enough to scout me

If we were talking full contact Nerf hoops I would have left myself.  I was unstoppable at that.

[Roy Hobbs]

Players who were born in:

Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont

Players who went to high school in:

Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont

[celtsrp33]

Best I've seen were.

Rick Brunson and Scoonie Penn for Salem
Sean Connoly at Bishop Fenwick - I know there were some better, but that kid could shoot the rock in high school like noone I've seen.  He had a decent career at Ohio St. 

[D in Boston]

Ewing then Barnes.

[Redz]

Players who were born in:

Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont

Players who went to high school in:

Connecticut
Maine
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Vermont

Wow.  You;d win some bets if you asked anyone to name the Massachusetts born player with the highest career scoring average.

Public Enemy #1.  I guess I forgot he was born here.

Basketball Reference.com rules.

[CelticBalla32]

Best I've seen were.

Rick Brunson and Scoonie Penn for Salem
Sean Connoly at Bishop Fenwick - I know there were some better, but that kid could shoot the rock in high school like noone I've seen.  He had a decent career at Ohio St. 

Absolutely. Connolly coached at a basketball camp I attended for four or five years. He's a great guy, very personable. We talked a bit while I was there and I kinda talked a little smack to him (jokingly) about how my camp team was going to beat the one he coached, etc. If we saw each other in the street, I think he'd recognize me.

He had offers to go play in Europe after college, but he turned them down. He's now coaching high school ball.

But you are so right - the guy can shoot the heck out of the ball. I remember at the camp, he did shooting demonstrations. He would go around the arc, shooting 20 threes. Right-handed (his strong hand), he hit 17 or 18 out of 20. Left-handed, he hit something like 14. That's amazing.

[incoherent]

We have some very very poor representation.

[cdif911]

Best I've seen were.

Rick Brunson and Scoonie Penn for Salem
Sean Connoly at Bishop Fenwick - I know there were some better, but that kid could shoot the rock in high school like noone I've seen.  He had a decent career at Ohio St. 

Absolutely. Connolly coached at a basketball camp I attended for four or five years. He's a great guy, very personable. We talked a bit while I was there and I kinda talked a little smack to him (jokingly) about how my camp team was going to beat the one he coached, etc. If we saw each other in the street, I think he'd recognize me.

He had offers to go play in Europe after college, but he turned them down. He's now coaching high school ball.

But you are so right - the guy can shoot the heck out of the ball. I remember at the camp, he did shooting demonstrations. He would go around the arc, shooting 20 threes. Right-handed (his strong hand), he hit 17 or 18 out of 20. Left-handed, he hit something like 14. That's amazing.

I worked with him for a brief period of time, and we played pickup a few times, just unbelievable talent, great court awareness/vision and was easily the best non-NBA shooter I've seen live

[gar]

James Naismith must have been pretty good in his day

(born in Canada, died Kansas, oh well)

[gar]

Current Players:

Marcus Camby
Ryan Gomes
Demetris Nichols (he may be headed to Europe - can't recall)

I would give Ray Allen honorary status.

Used to have a fantasy team made up of Players who were currently playing in NE or had gone to College in NE. Without Uconn would have been a pretty pathetic exercise.

Ray Allen, Rick Hamilton, Pierce, Okafur, Camby

Not very impressive given the sport started here.


PS.

Ewing definitely should count. Used to live in Cambridgeport and remember him polishing the roof of his BWM like I would polish a coffee table when he was with the Knicks.

[cdif911]

Bill Cosby - doctorate of ed from UMass....

and by the transitive property that makes my favorite:

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[ChainSmokingLikeDino]

Obviously not overall, in any respect, but watching Wayne Turner play his high school ball was remarkable.

[Pierce4Prez]

MATT BONNER pride of Concord, NH.

Also, are we considering guys that played in the New England Prep School league? The NE prep league has produced a lot more NBA talent than you might think.