“I don’t think he ever missed a game at UConn or a practice at UConn,” former Huskies assistant Howie Dickenman said. “He was a little bit temperamental at times, but he worked so hard after practice. He was quite a player and, in my opinion, quite a person. …....
.........New York City. NBA draft. Robinson, a front-row guest following a standout career at UConn, heard 10 names called at Madison Square Garden’s Felt Theater, then 20 and more from there..........The first round concluded with Robinson still on the board. So he left abruptly, walking out a back door, onto the Manhattan streets and, as only he seemed to understand, into one of professional basketball’s truly unique runs....He was hurt and humbled. He said, ‘They don’t know who I am.’”....He entered the NBA a year after Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s final season and lasted long enough to share the court with Chris Paul and LeBron James. "
First, though, he bolted. Out of that theater (at MSG). He was doubted, initially. Then counted on, day after day and year after year. “He had a chip on his shoulder, anyway,” said Rutgers coach Steve Pikiell, a UConn teammate of Robinson’s. “I remember he said, ‘I will prove that they made some mistakes.’ I think his whole career, he proved to a lot of people there were a lot of mistakes made that night. There are so very few players like him. When it was practice time, he was ready to go. When it was game time, he was ready to go. Very few guys I’ve been around had a motor like him.”
Good read from Mike Anthony...
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