Help me compile a list of Uconn Players from NYC (or by way of)

[OkaForPrez]

Craig Austrie (Stamford is kind of a stretch but I'm including)
Wes Bialosuknia
Taliek Brown
Andre Drummond - Originally from Mount Vernon
Ben Gordon
Curtis Kelly
A.J. Price
Charlie Villanueva
Terrence Sammuel
Kemba Walker
Kentan Facey

That will get us started.

 

[businesslawyer]

Austrie, Gordon and Drummond? Really? (But if you go that way, Rash Jones played in Stamford just like Austrie and Larry Blucher was from Westchester).

Wasn't Vern Giscombe from one of the outer boroughs?

 

[OkaForPrez]

Count Tate? Scotch Plans NJ?

 

[businesslawyer]

You either are a New Yorker or you're not. Players from the suburbs are not.

 

[caw]

Omar Calhoun

 

[caw]

Prince Ali

 

[caw]

If you are including Ben Gordon I guess Hilton Armstrong.

 

[OkaForPrez]

If you are including Ben Gordon I guess Hilton Armstrong.

I feel like Mount Vernon > Peekskill.

 

[Deleted member 3149]

Terrence Samuel

 

[businesslawyer]

I feel like Mount Vernon > Peekskill.

Trust me -- no NY basketball player thinks a kid from Mount Vernon is a NY City kid. He might as well be from Scarsdale.

 

[Northbound]

NYC is 5 Boroughs, no suburbs. I'm pretty sure AJ Price is from Long Island, I think he went to Amityville.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Trust me -- no NY basketball player thinks a kid from Mount Vernon is a NY City kid. He might as well be from Scarsdale.

I agree with the first part BL but equating Mount Vernon to Scarsdale? That is similar to equating Bridgeport to New Canaan. Mount Vernon is pretty tough, Scarsdale is Scarsdale.

 

[businesslawyer]

I agree with the first part BL but equating Mount Vernon to Scarsdale? That is similar to equating Bridgeport to New Canaan. Mount Vernon is pretty tough, Scarsdale is Scarsdale.

That's my point. Having grown up in Westchester, New Yorkers have total disdain for even the inner city kids from Westchester when they come down to play. (I was hardly implying that Ben Gordon wouldn't be able to tell the difference between Mount Vernon and Scarsdale).

 

[LIUCHusky]

Craig Austrie (Stamford is kind of a stretch but I'm including)
Wes Bialosuknia
Taliek Brown
Andre Drummond - Originally from Mount Vernon
Ben Gordon
Curtis Kelly
A.J. Price
Charlie Villanueva
Terrence Sammuel
Kemba Walker
Kentan Facey

That will get us started.

Wes Bialosuknia was from Poughkeepsie, NY. I don't think Kentan Facey was from NYC either as he played his HS basketball on LI.

 

[ZenConn]

One of our favorite walkons - Ace Watanasuparp!

 

[OkaForPrez]

Holy hook I didn't know this was so sensitive and specific. I was just trying to map our greater NYC players.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

That's my point. Having grown up in Westchester, New Yorkers have total disdain for even the inner city kids from Westchester when they come down to play. (I was hardly implying that Ben Gordon wouldn't be able to tell the difference between Mount Vernon and Scarsdale).

Fair enough.

 

[UCweCONN]

I agree with the first part BL but equating Mount Vernon to Scarsdale? That is similar to equating Bridgeport to New Canaan. Mount Vernon is pretty tough, Scarsdale is Scarsdale.

'Money earnin' Mount Vernon' - so called by Mount Vernon's most famous former resident Sean 'Puffy'Combs and he wasn't talking about investment banking...

 

[Sportsman5]

Wes Bialosuknia was from Poughkeepsie, NY. I don't think Kentan Facey was from NYC either as he played his HS basketball on LI.

From Jamaica, but played high school basketball in NY. He will have a lot of local supporters though.

 

[upstater]

Trust me -- no NY basketball player thinks a kid from Mount Vernon is a NY City kid. He might as well be from Scarsdale.

The Mt. Vernon I know is pretty rough.

 

[NorwalkHusky]

Johnnie Bird the third, a great walk on was from Bridgeport

 

[aceboon]

If you told a native new yorker that Stamford, LI, and Mount Vernon were NYC they would like at you crazy, lol. Really streeeeetching with these

 

[Kitaman]

'Money earnin' Mount Vernon' - so called by Mount Vernon's most famous former resident Sean 'Puffy'Combs and he wasn't talking about investment banking...

Not to get technical but I'm about pretty sure it was Heavy D who coined it.

 

[breezy]

Tor Watts