The Long Island Nets Honor NBA Great Dr J at Home Opener!

November 4th, 2017

Long Island Nets to Honor Julius “Dr. J” Erving and the return of Long Island’s J.J.Moore at Season Opener on November 4

LONG ISLAND (October 26, 2017) – The Long Island Nets will honor legendary player Julius “Dr. J” Erving and the Village of Hempstead Mayor Don Ryan at their season opener on Saturday, November 4, when the Nets host the Fort Wayne Mad Ants at NYCB LIVE, home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

During the game, Erving will present Mayor Ryan with the Long Island Nets’ first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award. Ryan will be recognized for his community contributions as a local civic leader, coach, and teacher. Ryan coached and mentored Erving, who was 12 at the time, while volunteering as the Biddy Basketball coach at the Salvation Army’s Hempstead headquarters.

In conjunction with the season-long celebration of bringing professional basketball back to Long Island, the Long Island Nets will be retiring Erving’s #32 jersey for the first time ever at the Coliseum. Erving spent three years with the New York Nets, winning two ABA championships in 1974 and 1976 at the Coliseum, and earning the MVP Award three times. The jersey retirement ceremony will take place at 6:30 p.m., 30 minutes prior to tipoff. The first 5,000 fans in attendance will receive a replica Dr. J jersey mini banner to commemorate the celebration.

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LONG ISLAND NETS FINALIZE OPENING NIGHT ROSTER

November 2nd, 2017

The Long Island Nets, the NBA G League affiliate of the Brooklyn Nets, have finalized their roster

for the start of the 2017-18 season.

Long Island will open the season at home against the Fort Wayne Mad Ants on Saturday, November 4, at 7 p.m. at NYCB LIVE, home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

The team set the opening night roster today by waiving forward Buay Tuach.

Long Island’s full roster is as follows:

# NAME POS HT WT DOB COLLEGE/COUNTRY ACQUIRED

35 Milton Doyle G 6’4” 180 10/31/93 Loyola Chicago/USA Affiliate

1 Kendall Gray C 6’10” 240 05/05/92 Delaware State/USA Returning

0 Prince Ibeh C 6’10” 245 06/03/94 Texas/USA Returning

5 Tahjere McCall G 6’5” 190 08/17/94 Tennessee State/USA Affiliate

2 Akil Mitchell F 6’8” 235 06/26/92 Virginia/USA Returning

44 J.J. Moore F 6’6” 215 05/25/91 Rutgers/USA Returning

21 Kamari Murphy F 6’9” 218 12/14/93 Miami/USA Affiliate

00 Yakuba Ouattara G 6’3” 185 01/24/92 France Two-Way Contract

11 Shannon Scott G 6’1” 185 12/21/92 Ohio State/USA Returning

30 Jeremy Senglin G 6’2” 190 03/24/95 Weber State/USA Affiliate

24 Jacob Wiley F 6’8” 213 09/04/94 Eastern Washington/USA Two-Way Contract

20 Thomas Wimbush F 6’7” 195 12/08/93 Fairmont State/USA Draft

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Hills East’s Savion Lewis is on Fire!!

October 1st, 2017

Hot ??? weekend in Basketball ? @savion_lewis is tearing it up! The reigning Suffolk & Long Island player of the year is definitely playing like a man possessed.

He’s got multiple D1 offers and it seems to me that he’s still not getting his due respect. Well Sav’ Keep doing what your doing because opinions are opinions and they’re like elbows, everybody’s got ’em. but one things for sure, numbers don’t lie. So check out these stats for the last few days with iLuvBBall’s Long Island’s #Playeroftheweek.

Sav’ had another big time performance against the city’s best mighty Christ the King this morning at IS8 on team Long Island. He dominated with 27 points, 12 dimes, 7 rebounds, & 4 steals all while never coming out of the game and still blowing by guys at the end of the game.

He had 32 pts. the other night at the Beacon 158 league against Cardozo.

He’s averaging 25 PPG in two of the hardest and most competitive off season leagues in the tri-State area!!

Ball don’t lie…. ✌?

Sav’ keep on killing’ ’em and we’ll keep on promoting you.

Mt Sinai Freshman win Free-throw contest w/ hot hand

April 30th, 2017

Congratulations to Mt Sinai Freshman Ryan McNeely who competed in and won the New York State Knights of Columbus Free Throw Shooting Championship in his age group at the US Military Academy at West Point on Sunday, 4/3. Ryan hit 23 of 25 free throws in the finals to win.

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TOP 10 GIRLS TEAMS ON LONG ISLAND! CHIME IN!!

January 7th, 2017

We’ve posted a poll on our site a few months back and here are the results! If you don’t agree, here’s your chance to be heard! Submit your choices and tell us why. We’ve collected all of the votes and here is what the people have chosen. If you think that someone should be on this list submit your vote and tell us who she should replace and why.

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Top 10 Schools:

10- Kings Park

9- Bay Shore

8- Sewanhaka

7- Brentwood

6- Longwood

5- Ward Melville

4- Elmont

3- Commack

2- Baldwin

1- Long Island Lutheran

Top 10 Players:

10- Gabrielle Zaffiro (North Shore) 2018

9- Maia Moffit (St. Anthony’s) 2017

8- Victoria Pearce (Bay Shore) 2017

7- Jenna Annecchiarico (Baldwin) 2018

6- Aziah Hudson (Baldwin) 2018

5- Grace Stone (Long Island Lutheran) 2018

4- Kadaja Bailey (St. Mary’s) 2018

3- Lauren Hansen (Ward Melville) 2019

2- Danielle Cosgrove (Sachem East) 2018

1- Celeste Taylor (Long Island Lutheran) 2019

So there you have it. The iLuvBBall’s top 10 girls and girls teams on Long Island as seen by the people (Yes, the Peoples Choice). You can still vote on who you think is the Top 10 boys teams and players. We are doing the Top 10n Overall players (public, private, independent, & catholic) as well as the Public school only poll. Click here now to cast your vote and be heard on the top Boys. Click here for the Top 10 Long Island teams.

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