A professional minor league basketball team is coming to Coney Island. HannahKliger exclusively reports on the big announcement.
- Dreams of professional basketball don't have to end at the NBA. Just ask public school science teacher Reuben McLaughlin, the new owner of a pro minor league team called"Mentoring and education in the community is the backbone and the mission for this whole program. We want to get the youth involved," he said.
In an announcement made exclusively to CBS New York's Hannah Kliger, McLaughlin also introduced the community to the team's coach, high school and college basketball star Maurice Brown. "My senior year I was able to win New York Newsday Player of the Year," Brown recalls of his basketball career in the '90s.
Both men, Coney Island natives, embark on a new journey to create a team from scratch, trying to be thoughtful about the unique field of opportunity here. "We want to do youth programs, we want to do basketball clinics. We want to teach the kids from the beginning how to play the game right, sportsmanship," Mclaughlin explains."Build a relationship in the community, relationship with the kids."
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