Bob McCullough (basketball)
Robert "Bob" McCullough is a former basketball player from New York. Bob was widely known as a streetball player at the Rucker Park.[1]
Basketball
Bob attended Benedeict College in South Carolina with Ernie Morris.[2] In college he averaged 36 points per game.[2] This made him the second biggest scorer in the nation.[2] He scored 2100 points in 3 years.[1] After this he was drafted by the NBA team Cincinnati Royals.[3]
After career
Bob later went on to earn further degrees and become a New York City guideance counselor and social worker.[4] He studied at Master of Science degree from Lehman College and studied additionally at New York University, Cornell University and Hunter College.[5] He serves as a staff member for Rucker Park.[6] He founded a program called Each One Teach One, which was honored by Charles Rangel.[7]
References
- ^ a b "Influential Harlem Ballers | CREAM". cream-the-memoir.com. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
- ^ a b c "Rucker 50 | SLAMonline". slamonline.com. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
- ^ "Holcombe Rucker Basketball Hall of Fame". espn.com. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
- ^ Anderson, L.; Millman, C. (1999). Pickup Artists: Street Basketball in America. Verso. p. 64. ISBN 9781859842430. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
- ^ "Benedict College Athletic Hall of Fame". benedict.edu. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
- ^ "SPORTS OF THE TIMES - About Games and Life - NYTimes.com". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
- ^ "Congressional Record | Congress.gov | Library of Congress". congress.gov. Retrieved 2016-09-11.