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 ====== Danny Nee ====== ====== Danny Nee ======
  
-**Position:** Guard\\ +**Position:** Guard/Forward\\ 
-**Height:** \\+**Height:** 6'3"\\
 **Weight:** lbs.\\ **Weight:** lbs.\\
-**Birthdate:** Brooklyn, New York\\ +**Birthdate:** \\ 
-**Hometown:** \\ +**Hometown:** Brooklyn, NY\\ 
-**High School:** Power Memorial in New York, NY\\+**High School:** [[Power Memorial H.S.]]\\
  
  
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 Nee was a teammate of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then Lew Alcindor) at New York's Power Memorial High School. Nee was a teammate of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then Lew Alcindor) at New York's Power Memorial High School.
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 He was a member of the [[Al McGuire|Al McGuire's]] first recruiting class at Marquette University. According to Charles Pierce's book, //Sports Guy//, Patrick Nee - Danny's father - told him he was going to Marquette (though Danny did not know where it was) after being "romanced" by Al McGuire over "tea and soda bread." He was a member of the [[Al McGuire|Al McGuire's]] first recruiting class at Marquette University. According to Charles Pierce's book, //Sports Guy//, Patrick Nee - Danny's father - told him he was going to Marquette (though Danny did not know where it was) after being "romanced" by Al McGuire over "tea and soda bread."
  
-He captained the Warriors' freshman team for frosh coach [[Hank Raymonds]] before dropping out in 1966.+He captained the Warriors' freshman team for frosh coach [[Hank Raymonds]]. Raymonds, many years later, commented on Nee's ability: "Danny was tremendously competitive. He played very large, even though he wasn't all that tall." 
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 +But Nee dropped out of Marquette in 1966. He commented on it in the //Daily Nebraskan//, the University of Nebraska's student newspaper, in 1998: "Once I hit the bar scene, and I wasn't playing, and I was struggling academically, I just joined the Marine Corps." In a 2005 //Marquette Tribune// article, Nee recalls :"I was not equiped emotionally or mentally to stay on my own at that point."
  
-Nee commented on dropping out of Marquette in the //Daily Nebraskan//, the University of Nebraska's student newspaper, in 1998: "Once I hit the bar scene, and I wasn't playing, and I was struggling academically, I just joined the Marine Corps." 
  
  
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 He is now employed by Rutgers University to serve as the newly minted director of player development for the men's basketball program. He is now employed by Rutgers University to serve as the newly minted director of player development for the men's basketball program.
  
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 +===== Links =====
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 +  * [[http://www.marquettetribune.org/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=a88dfcd6-2c82-4992-be45-aa616bbc16ff|Learning From the Best (Marquette Tribune, 12/1/05)]]
  
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