1949–50 CCNY Beavers men's basketball team 1949–50 CCNY Beavers men's basketball team The 1949–50 CCNY Beavers men's basketball team represented the City College of New York. The head coach was Nat Holman, who was one of the game's greatest innovators and playmakers. Unlike today, where colleges recruit players from all over the country, the 1950 CCNY team was composed of "kids from the sidewalks of New York City," who had been recruited by Holman's assistant coach Harold "Bobby" Sand from PSAL schools such as Taft, Clinton, Boys, Erasmus, and Franklin High Schools. The "Starting 5" consisted of two black and three Jewish players. The team is
Basketball in Greece in the NBA from 1988 to 1999, and also played with the senior men's United States national basketball team, was also raised and developed basketball-wise in Greece. The Greek players Kostas Papanikolaou and Georgios Papagiannis, have also played in the NBA. Anastasia Kostaki and Evanthia Maltsi are female Greek professional basketball players that have played in the WNBA. This is a list of the basketball players that have won the most championships over the years in the men's 1st-tier level Greek League. On a daily basis, 16 newspapers in the country of Greece publish what is happening in the sport