KevinNYC
11-03-2014, 12:42 PM
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Credit to Adam Silver he ran over the Verranzano bridge which may have been the coldest miles of the race. He passed it off to Mullin in the same neighborhood Mullin won a state high championship.
Commissioner Adam Silver handled the first three miles (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/03/sports/new-york-marathon-2014-nba-pounds-pavement-at-marathon-to-promote-fitness-and-itself.html?_r=0), crossing the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge from Staten Island to Brooklyn. He passed a baton to Chris Mullin, the Brooklyn native who starred at St. John's in Queens before a Hall of Fame NBA career.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/dikembe-mutombo-anchors-nba-relay-team-nyc-marathon-article-1.1996605
The roster of volunteers included former N.B.A. stars who grew up in New York, among them Nate Archibald (a Bronx native known as Tiny), Albert and Bernard King and Mullin (Brooklyn), and former Knicks and Nets players like Greg Anthony, Jason Collins, Darryl Dawkins, Allan Houston and Charles Oakley. Swin Cash and Teresa Edwards were among those representing the W.N.B.A., while Mike Breen, the Knicks announcer, joined executives from the N.B.A., Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center.
“We want to contribute, we want to make a difference, and we want to reach our youth, because we know that we are not going to be playing the game forever,” said the former player Dikembe Mutombo, who ran the last leg of the relay, which was completed in 4:48.09. “We want to pass the baton to them.”
I saw Bernard King after his mile and he was huffing and puffing.
Credit to Adam Silver he ran over the Verranzano bridge which may have been the coldest miles of the race. He passed it off to Mullin in the same neighborhood Mullin won a state high championship.
Commissioner Adam Silver handled the first three miles (http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/03/sports/new-york-marathon-2014-nba-pounds-pavement-at-marathon-to-promote-fitness-and-itself.html?_r=0), crossing the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge from Staten Island to Brooklyn. He passed a baton to Chris Mullin, the Brooklyn native who starred at St. John's in Queens before a Hall of Fame NBA career.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/dikembe-mutombo-anchors-nba-relay-team-nyc-marathon-article-1.1996605
The roster of volunteers included former N.B.A. stars who grew up in New York, among them Nate Archibald (a Bronx native known as Tiny), Albert and Bernard King and Mullin (Brooklyn), and former Knicks and Nets players like Greg Anthony, Jason Collins, Darryl Dawkins, Allan Houston and Charles Oakley. Swin Cash and Teresa Edwards were among those representing the W.N.B.A., while Mike Breen, the Knicks announcer, joined executives from the N.B.A., Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center.
“We want to contribute, we want to make a difference, and we want to reach our youth, because we know that we are not going to be playing the game forever,” said the former player Dikembe Mutombo, who ran the last leg of the relay, which was completed in 4:48.09. “We want to pass the baton to them.”
I saw Bernard King after his mile and he was huffing and puffing.