Benny and the Nets

His name on the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s register was Paul Benjamin Rudolph Newman, Arts카지노 게임 컬렉션�39, but he was Benny to family and friends.

His fellow Gaels, when he pounded the rock on the hardwood at the Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s gym in the early 카지노 게임 컬렉션�40s, called him 카지노 게임 컬렉션�O카지노 게임 컬렉션�Toole,카지노 게임 컬렉션� an admittedly odd nickname for a Jewish kid from St. Catharines, Ont.

The Globe and Mail in 1946 called him 카지노 게임 컬렉션�one of the Dominion카지노 게임 컬렉션�s greatest authorities on [basketball],카지노 게임 컬렉션� after the two St. Catharines teams he coached or managed won three national titles in two years and he had been recruited to mount Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션�s first two big-arena basketball games, a charity doubleheader at Maple Leaf Gardens.

And on June 6, 1946, in New York City, high-powered U.S. sports promoters and the owners of North America카지노 게임 컬렉션�s largest arenas called him Mr. Newman when they conferred upon him, at no cost, a 25 per cent ownership in the , one of 11 founding teams in the league that would become the National Basketball Association (NBA).

By then, Benny 카지노 게임 컬렉션�O카지노 게임 컬렉션�Toole카지노 게임 컬렉션� Newman was just 26 years old.

The various sobriquets applied to young Benny Newman tell you a lot about the man. He was Benny, not 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Benjamin카지노 게임 컬렉션� Newman, because he never took on airs, according to his grandson, Jordon Williams, even as he was transforming his father카지노 게임 컬렉션�s St. Catharines scrapyard business into a nationwide metal-processing corporation big enough to supply structural steel for the construction of Toronto카지노 게임 컬렉션�s SkyDome (now Rogers Centre).

Mr. Newman카지노 게임 컬렉션�s nickname from his Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s basketball years 카지노 게임 컬렉션� O카지노 게임 컬렉션�Toole 카지노 게임 컬렉션� was 카지노 게임 컬렉션�known to all court fans,카지노 게임 컬렉션� according to a column in the Kingston Whig-Standard in March 1942. He earned it, the column said, for his 카지노 게임 컬렉션�clowning카지노 게임 컬렉션� on the court. The reference is likely to Ollie O카지노 게임 컬렉션�Toole, a then-popular radio personality whose schtick included trading celebrity impersonations with comedian Art Carney.

Mr. Newman remained 카지노 게임 컬렉션�a cut-up and a card카지노 게임 컬렉션� throughout his life, his grandson says, particularly at the big family gatherings he hosted.

But it is the Globe and Mail카지노 게임 컬렉션�s assessment of Mr. Newman as a kind of national basketball guru that most defines his early life, says Mr. Williams, who has been campaigning to get the former Golden Gael into both the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame and the international Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass.

Benny Newman didn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t make the cut at the international hall of fame this year, his first nomination for the honour. However, NBA commissioner Adam Silver took a personal interest in Mr. Newman카지노 게임 컬렉션�s file, says his grandson, assigning someone to liaise with Mr. Williams in documenting his grandfather카지노 게임 컬렉션�s contributions to the sport.
 
The culmination of Mr. Newman카지노 게임 컬렉션�s contributions came on Nov. 1, 1946, when the first game of what would become the NBA tipped off at Maple Leaf Gardens. The Toronto Huskies 카지노 게임 컬렉션� the franchise Benny Newman had helped to create and had a stake in 카지노 게임 컬렉션� met the New York Knickerbockers on the same hardwood floor that Mr. Newman had paid to have built for the charity match he promoted the previous year.

The game, attended by more than 7,000 fans paying up to $2.50 a ticket, was hard fought to the end. The Knickerbockers prevailed by a single basket; the final score was 68카지노 게임 컬렉션�66. The game was the highlight of the Huskies카지노 게임 컬렉션� underwhelming single season. The league would not embrace another Canadian team for almost half a century.

Seventy-five years to the day after that first game 카지노 게임 컬렉션� Nov. 1, 2021 카지노 게임 컬렉션� the NBA kicked off its 75th anniversary season with a matchup between the Toronto Raptors and the New York Knicks at Toronto카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Scotiabank Arena. The Raps wore throwback Huskies uniforms and the game was played on a court with the original Huskies logo: a sled dog huffing steam. But in all the media hoopla attached to that 75th anniversary rematch, you카지노 게임 컬렉션�d be hard-pressed to find even the briefest mention of Benny Newman.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�He was one of the founders of the NBA,카지노 게임 컬렉션� says Mr. Williams. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�He deserves to be recognized.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Growing up in St. Catharines, Mr. Newman learned to love sport early. It gave him a community.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�In those days, the kids didn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t know and didn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t care what your nationality or religion was,카지노 게임 컬렉션� Mr. Newman told the St. Catharines Standard in 1989. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�On a Sunday, I카지노 게임 컬렉션�d go to Hebrew school, the Protestants and Roman Catholics would go to their churches or Sunday schools, then we카지노 게임 컬렉션�d all meet and play hockey behind the St. Nicholas school on Church Street, or basketball at a gymnasium.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Mr. Newman had been an all-around athlete in high school, starring in football and track at St. Catharines Collegiate, according to the Standard, but he was passionate about basketball, inspired, says his grandson, by the hardwood exploits of his older brother, Norman Newman, Arts카지노 게임 컬렉션�39.

As a young Jewish athlete in the 1930s, he may also have felt a special affinity for the game. In the sport카지노 게임 컬렉션�s early years, because of its popularity among inner-city immigrant kids, some of the biggest names in basketball were Jewish 카지노 게임 컬렉션� names like Shikey Gotthoffer, Sonny Hertzberg, Nat Holman, and Red Klotz, according to Douglas Stark카지노 게임 컬렉션�s book, When Basketball was Jewish: Voices of Those Who Played the Game. Abe Saperstein, founder of the legendary Harlem Globetrotters, had already done more to promote the game than any other single person.

And in August 1936, just a month before Mr. Newman began studying at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s, a basketball team of players from Windsor and Victoria called the V8s had won the silver medal in the first-ever Olympic appearance of the sport, a tournament played in Berlin in Hitler카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Germany. Among the V8s카지노 게임 컬렉션� stars was Irving 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Toots카지노 게임 컬렉션� Meretsky, a Jewish kid who had been only too happy to thumb his nose at 카지노 게임 컬렉션�der Führer.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Benny Newman came to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s, according to his grandson, because it was the choice of his brother, Norman. Mr. Newman the younger arrived on campus at just 16 years old, apparently as successful in the classroom as in the gym. Because of his early admission to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s, he and his older brother were able to graduate the same year.

But one degree was not enough for Mr. Newman. After graduating with a major in history, he started a second degree in biology, according to Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s records. The degree wouldn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t be completed, but it meant that Mr. Newman was a Golden Gael in both the 카지노 게임 컬렉션�30s and the early 카지노 게임 컬렉션�40s.

By then, Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s had a long history in basketball. Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션�s first-ever intercollegiate basketball game pitted Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s against McGill at Kingston카지노 게임 컬렉션�s YMCA gymnasium on Feb. 6, 1904. The game was played just 13 years after basketball had been invented by McGill alumnus James Naismith.

Mr. Newman, a 5카지노 게임 컬렉션�10카지노 게임 컬렉션� forward, was described in a 1942 Whig-Standard column as 카지노 게임 컬렉션�a great team player, fine ball handler, consistent scorer, and all-around player.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

In the Tricolour yearbook for 1939, Mr. Newman is seated front row in the senior men카지노 게임 컬렉션�s team photo. His brother Norman, the team manager, is standing right behind him. The team went 2카지노 게임 컬렉션�13 that year, but the win카지노 게임 컬렉션�loss record doesn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t tell the whole story. The Gaels had close-fought contests against rivals McGill and the 카지노게임사이트 of Toronto and held their own against highly ranked U.S. college teams during a tour south of the border.

In the 1941 Tricolour, Benny Newman is listed on the university카지노 게임 컬렉션�s intermediate men카지노 게임 컬렉션�s team. By then, his beloved big bother Norman had left campus to work at the family business in St. Catharines. Tragedy, however, was just around the corner, and it would cut short Benny Newman카지노 게임 컬렉션�s time at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s.

A squib on the sports pages of The Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Journal on Nov. 14, 1941, tells the story: 카지노 게임 컬렉션�It was with regret the news of the death of Norman Newman, Arts카지노 게임 컬렉션�39, was learned here the other day. Although Norm was not known to many of the present student body, he will be 카지노 게임 컬렉션�remembered as an athlete and a student.카지노 게임 컬렉션� He played on the senior basketball team in 1937카지노 게임 컬렉션�38 and managed it in his final year. His death came after a lengthy illness. He was a brother of Ben Newman, an undergraduate from St. Catharines, Ontario.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Benny Newman would stay on at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s for another year. By then, three years into the Second World War, the university had cancelled intercollegiate sports. But Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s allowed its facilities to be used by the Combines, a regional basketball team composed of the university카지노 게임 컬렉션�s student athletes, including Mr. Newman, and others in the city.

Mr. Newman left Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s in 1943. His father needed help with his business after Norman카지노 게임 컬렉션�s death and Benny had to step up, says his grandson, Mr. Williams.

Benny Newman was not through with basketball, however. In the fall of 1943, inspired by the belief that sports make boys into better men, he created the first of two St. Catharines basketball teams that would bring the city glory.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�The first thing that had to be done was to organize a real good senior team,카지노 게임 컬렉션� Mr. Newman wrote in a retrospective for the St. Catharines Standard in 1961, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�one which would give the lads something to aim at.카지노 게임 컬렉션� He padded his team, the Merritton Hayes Hellcats, with American stars and coached them to a Canadian championship in 1944.

The ensuing basketball fever in St. Catharines allowed Mr. Newman to pursue his real goal: creating a strong local minor squad. The Hellkittens won the junior national championship in 1945, the same year the Hellcats won their second senior title. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Without exception,카지노 게임 컬렉션� Mr. Newman would later recall, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�those boys have gone on to be successful in many lines of business.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Suddenly, the former Golden Gael was the most talked-about man in Canadian basketball. The Toronto Rotary Club approached him to put together a charity basketball event at Maple Leaf Gardens, the cathedral of Canadian sports. Frank Selke, acting on behalf of the Toronto Maple Leafs카지노 게임 컬렉션� managing director, Conn Smythe, granted permission to use the Gardens, but would not spring for a hardwood floor to be laid over the ice. Undaunted, Mr. Newman paid for the new floor himself.

The doubleheader, featuring the Canadian champion Merritton Hayes Hellcats against U.S. amateur champion Phillips 66ers and the Rochester Royals taking on the Fort Wayne Pistons (now the Detroit Pistons), was a sellout.

Two weeks after the event, an impressed Mr. Selke approached Mr. Newman to represent the Maple Leafs in a meeting in New York City in which big-city arena owners and National Hockey League (NHL) team bosses would hash out the details of a new pro basketball league, the Basketball Association of America (later the NBA).

That June, 26-year-old Benny Newman found himself in the vast, ornate lobby of New York카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Commodore Hotel getting ready to negotiate with NHL legends such as Walter Brown, owner of the Boston Bruins, and James Norris, owner of the Detroit Red Wings. It didn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t faze him a bit.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�This kid had unbelievable gumption and chutzpah,카지노 게임 컬렉션� Mr. Newman카지노 게임 컬렉션�s grandson says.

With a Toronto franchise in his pocket, Mr. Newman returned home to help put together his team. The Huskies hired Ed Sadowski, a 6카지노 게임 컬렉션�5카지노 게임 컬렉션� centre from Seton Hall 카지노게임사이트, to be player-coach. The team reportedly made overtures to Jackie Robinson, then playing baseball with the Montreal Royals, but Robinson was already having talks with the Brooklyn Dodgers and decided to stay with baseball. Among the other Huskies was 6카지노 게임 컬렉션�8카지노 게임 컬렉션� George Nostrand. To promote the opening game, the Huskies offered a free ticket to anyone taller than the big man.

Benny Newman카지노 게임 컬렉션�s team made history with its first game that fall, but its fortunes soon waned. Sadowski quit after the first few games, shifting to the Boston Celtics. General manager Lew Hayman and one of the team카지노 게임 컬렉션�s major backers, Eric Craddock, had divided loyalties; they both had a piece of another Canadian sports franchise just finding its feet, the Montreal Alouettes. And when Mr. Newman카지노 게임 컬렉션�s father fell ill early in the season, the Huskies카지노 게임 컬렉션� most avid promoter had to reluctantly pull back.

The team went 22카지노 게임 컬렉션�38 for the season, finishing in last place. The crowds in Maple Leaf Gardens dwindled and the Huskies folded after one season. And yet, Canadian interest in basketball grew exponentially in the next two decades, thanks largely to the success of the professional basketball league Benny Newman had helped create.

When a star-studded Canadian men카지노 게임 컬렉션�s basketball team takes to the floor at the Paris Olympics this summer 카지노 게임 컬렉션� representing Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션�s best hope to medal in the sport since its 1936 Olympic debut 카지노 게임 컬렉션� they might want to spare a thought for a stocky former Golden Gael who stirred Canadian excitement in basketball long before the Toronto Raptors were hatched.