Robert McCullough

Robert "Bob" McCullough is a former basketball player from New York. Bob was widely known as a streetball player at the Rucker Park.[1]

Basketball

Bob attended Benedeict College in South Carolina with Ernie Morris.[2] In college he averaged 36 points per game.[2] This made him the second biggest scorer in the nation.[2] He scored 2100 points in 3 years.[1] After this he was drafted by the NBA team Cincinnati Royals.[3]

After career

Bob later went on to earn further degrees and become a New York City guideance counselor and social worker.[4] He studied at Master of Science degree from Lehman College and studied additionally at New York University, Cornell University and Hunter College.[5] He serves as a staff member for Rucker Park.[6] He founded a program called Each One Teach One, which was honored by Charles Rangel.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Influential Harlem Ballers | CREAM". cream-the-memoir.com. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  2. 1 2 3 "Rucker 50 | SLAMonline". slamonline.com. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  3. ↑ "Holcombe Rucker Basketball Hall of Fame". espn.com. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  4. ↑ Anderson, L.; Millman, C. (1999). Pickup Artists: Street Basketball in America. Verso. p. 64. ISBN 9781859842430. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  5. ↑ "Benedict College Athletic Hall of Fame". benedict.edu. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  6. ↑ "SPORTS OF THE TIMES - About Games and Life - NYTimes.com". nytimes.com. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  7. ↑ "Congressional Record | Congress.gov | Library of Congress". congress.gov. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
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