Daily News | Honoring Philly hoop greats of the (recent) past
Dionte Christmas figured he could get away without playing. Showing up at Ben Franklin High School during Saturday’s crazy rainstorm already showed genuine gratitude for this honor. These Philadelphia basketball players from his era all appreciated the certificates they received from the Brotherly Love League,
“I haven’t played in a while – months,” said Christmas, the former Temple star who had a brief NBA stint and many years playing professionally overseas. “I’ve been doing things as far as coaching. I just got off a flight two hours ago. I was in Miami with Ben Simmons, working with him, helping him get in shape.”“I flew in this morning just [for] this game,” said Christmas, also on the staff at Cristo Rey High. “I wasn’t going to play. I didn’t want to go out there and look [bad.
It was all memory lane. There was former Drexel big man Robert Battle getting out to a passing lane to tip a pass out of bounds.Recognizable names up and down the rosters. Khalif Wyatt, who just joined Adam Fisher’s staff at Temple … Mike Green, who was on the Penn State staff the last two years ... Marv Kilgore, who had big games for UTEP back in his day.
Where did these men play professionally? Where didn’t they play? NBA, G League, CBA, ABA, PBL, NBDL, Euroleague, Poland, Russia, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, Australia, Spain, Belgium, Germany, France, Brazil, Mexico, Israel, Bosnia, Argentina, Czech Republic, Crete, Bolivia, Peru, Niger, Puerto Rico, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, China, the Philippines, Romania, Belarus, Oman.
“To honor guys like us — what these guys are doing is amazing for the city,” Christmas said. “We’ve been missing something like this for a long time. Those guys just filled the gap.”
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