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New York hoops renaissance stretches well beyond Knicks’ repeat quest

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Vaccaro, M. (2026, October 17). New York hoops renaissance stretches well beyond Knicks’ repeat quest. New York Post. https://nypost.com/2026/10/17/sports/new-york-hoops-renaissance-stretches-well-beyond-knicks-repeat-quest/

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Bill Bradley spoke at the opening of the expanded Earl Monroe New Renaissance Basketball School in the South Bronx, emphasizing its significance for basketball culture in New York City. The new 69,000-square-foot facility aims to continue the school's impact on students and community since it first opened five years ago. Bradley highlighted his personal connection with Earl "Pearl" Monroe, celebrating their shared history as teammates and rivals.

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On October 16, 2026, Bill Bradley and Earl Monroe, former New York Knicks teammates and NBA legends, celebrated the opening of the new 69,000-square-foot facility for the Earl Monroe New Renaissance Basketball School in The Bronx. Speaking at a packed gymnasium event, Bradley emphasized his lifelong bond with Monroe, saying it's "a forever bond" they share due to their two NBA championships together. The school, which opened in 2021, integrates basketball into its curriculum and aims to prepare students for careers beyond sports.

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“Both articles describe Bill Bradley speaking at the Earl Monroe New Renaissance Basketball School in the South Bronx on Thursday morning.”

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🔮 This was the perfect way to kick off a basketball year that quite possibly might be unlike any other in the long and beautiful history of The City Game.

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🔮 At the ’88 parade, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar playfully stuffed a towel in Riley’s mouth before he could make a similar guarantee — although Riles, being Riles, did officially trademark the term “three-peat,” and has happily donated the resulting proceeds when the Bulls and Yankees actually pulled it off.

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🔮 Sign Up Now“Just hating,” he would say late Wednesday, “every single moment of it.”

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🔮 “Do you think,” Gallico wrote late in the afternoon of Oct. 10, 1926, “that the New York Yankees will ever win a championship again?”

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🔮 As a result, we will not be negotiating contract extensions until later in the season and will remain solely focused on preparing for the start of the season.”

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🔮 That one was allowed to stand, regardless of how unfair it might’ve been to objective eyes.

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🔮 Sign Up NowSoon, the contents of those bottles were cascading off Murphy’s head and shoulders, and Granderson yelled, “To the mighty Bambino!”

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🔮 This has never been what you would call a standard house of horrors.

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🔮 This was back in the spring of 1994, the beginning of a playoff march that would carry the Knicks to the very brink of ending a 21-year championship drought that would instead reach 53 years before being quashed.

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🔮 — would you sign up for that?

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This was the perfect way to kick off a basketball year that quite possibly might be unlike any other in the long and beautiful history of The City Game. uncertain

that → kick → Game

This was Thursday morning, inside a packed gym at the Earl Monroe New Renaissance Basketball School in the South Bronx — one of the great experiments of education in our city, one that in five short years has already made a dramatic impact on students, teaches and supporters alike. asserted

that → pack → students

Here was the great Bill Bradley — onetime rival, onetime teammate and forever friend of the man for whom this school is named — talking about Pearl, taking about the school, talking about all the things that make this game such an important thread in the tapestry of New York City. asserted

game → name → City

“The fact that it has Earl Monroe on the [school] name, that might be a little reason why I’m here, but you guys are the reason that makes my heart full,” Bradley said on the occasion of the opening of the new 69,000-square-foot facility that will now house the school, which opened in 2021. uncertain

which → ’m → 2021

When you are a teammate and you go to the top, it’s a forever bond and we did that twice.” asserted

we → go → that

New York hoops renaissance stretches well beyond Knicks’ repeat quest

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