Carnesecca was a young assistant for Joe Lapchick then, and like everyone else in the city, hed heard stories about a kid from Boys High in Brooklyn named Connie Hawkins. But Looie hadnt just fallen off the turnip truck from Queens, either. He knew, nine times out of 10, the stories dont befit th
But the folks who saw him back in the day, theyll tell you that was something to behold. As the great columnist and fervent basketball sage Bob Ryan has written: Elgin Baylors playing vision begat Connie Hawkins, who begat Julius Erving, who begat Michael Jordan.