Ossie Schectman
American basketball player
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Oscar Benjamin "Ossie" Schectman was an American professional basketball player. He is credited with having scored the first basket in the Basketball Association of America, which would later become the National Basketball Association. Wikipedia
Born: March 30, 1919, Queens, New York, NY
Died: July 30, 2013 (age 94 years), Delray Beach, FL
Height: 6′ 0″
1941–1946: Philadelphia Sphas
1947–1948: Paterson Crescents
College: LIU Brooklyn (1938–1941)
High school: Samuel J. Tilden; (Brooklyn, New York)