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Omar Cook: The Queens Point Guard Who Had NYC Basketball in a Chokehold
Every now and then, a player comes along who’s just different. Not hype-different. Not internet-different. But truly special. For me, that player was a point guard from Queens, New York named Omar Cook. In the late 1990s, if you were tapped into NYC basketball culture, Omar Cook’s name was everywhere. The buzz around the city
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