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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Passing: Al Cervi, Hall of Fame N.B.A. Player-Coach (NY Times)

From The New York Times:

By FRANK LITSKY
Published: November 10, 2009

Al Cervi, a tenacious backcourt player in the early years of professional basketball and later a Hall of Fame coach who led the Syracuse Nationals to the 1955 N.B.A. championship, died Monday (November 9, 2009) in Rochester. He was 92 and lived in Brighton, N.Y.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/sports/basketball/11cervi.html?ref=obituaries

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