Providence College Hall of Famer Jamel Thomas recalls the conversation with his adopted Mother the morning after he wasn’t selected in the 1999 NBA draft. “I was laying in bed, my Mother said it doesn’t stop here. Keep moving forward and that’s why I did the...
From the park to the pros, there’s been a long line of prodigious ballplayers who got their start in the five boroughs. Below are the top 60 since 1956, in alphabetical order. — Lew Alcindor Long before he became Kareem, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer, Lew Alcindor was leading Power...
Former Providence Friars star Jamel Thomas (jamel530), a Brooklyn native who constantly returns to his Coney Island roots to give back to the community, recently held an event there that allowed local youth and police officers in the area to interact and engage in a positive manner through...
Behind Sebastian Telfair, his younger brother Ethan and their half-brother Jamel Thomas, there was a support system that didn’t let them fail. There was Erica Telfair, the matriarch of the family who took in Thomas, her nephew, at the age of 3 when his mother was...
(Original article can be found here.) For the fourth time (after Conley, Abdul-Aziz, Herren) but what won't be the last (Mike James has a book out there and Acie Earl has told me he has an Ebook so we'll see where they go) we remember a former-Celtic-turned author. For the second...
Local legend Jamel Thomas is training the city's next crop of talent in familiar territory (Original article can be found here.) Sitting on a park bench at the basketball court on the West 24th St. side of the Carey Gardens housing projects in Coney Island, familiar faces...