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Ossie Schechtman, 1994 NYC Basketball Hall of Famer

Ossie Schechtman
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 Inducted in 1994

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Player Inducted in 1994
Ossie Schectman Ossie Schechtman, Inducted into the NYC Hall of Fame in 1994
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Oscar Benjamin "Ossie" Schectman (March 30, 1919 – July 30, 2013) played basketball and baseball while attending Samuel J. Tilden High School in Brooklyn. At Long Island University he played under coach Clair Bee and was a member of the team in 1939 when they won the National Invitation Tournament and National Championship.

After college, he played for the Philadelphia Sphas in the American Basketball League (1941-46), the New York Knicks (1946-47), and the Patterson Crescents (1947-48). Career highlights All-ABL First Team (1948), Consensus second-team All-American (1941), and in 1946 he made history by scoring the first NBA basket.
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