Dolph Schayes
Dolph Schayes: 75 Stories
Basketballography: Dolph Schayes
Son Of The City: Dolph Schayes
Remembering Dolph Schayes
NBA at 50: Dolph Schayes
Legends Profile: Dolph Schayes
Dolph Schayes was one of professional basketball’s early superstars, a crack shooter and top rebounder whose career stretched from the NBA’s inaugural year to basketball’s emergence as a major sporting attraction. Although Schayes represented a bridge between…
Archive 75: Dolph Schayes
There are knowns and unknowns with the career of Dolph Schayes. He has been celebrated for his consecutive games streak, for leading the 1955 Syracuse Nationals to the title, and for accumulating a dozen All-Star Game appearances and just as many All-NBA selections…
Dolph Schayes: The Boy From Syracuse
Howard Cann wasn’t sure. He knew that the kid had a great schoolboy reputation at DeWitt Clinton High. But he wondered, as the tall, skinny 16-year-old youngster worked out, how long it would take to make a coordinated athlete out of the ungainly-looking stick of bones…
Dolph Schayes: The Rainbow Kid
Dolph Schayes was known around the NBA as the Rainbow Kid. He was famous for unlimited range from the perimeter, and he thought a high-arching shot had a better chance of hitting its mark than a line drive. He reasoned that a ball dropped from straight above a bucket…
RIP Dolph Schayes: An Interview With The Big Man
Dolph Schayes is the greatest Jewish basketball player of all time. Stop snickering and learn something; my tribe was a dominant basketball force in the first half of the twentieth century. Though the golden era of Jewish hoops came before the NBA’s 1946 formation, we were…
