Late ex-Knick Mike Sweetney left a lasting impact on Jewish and Yeshiva basketball: ‘Larger than life’

Source: New York Post

If you took a look at the sideline during a Yeshiva University men’s basketball game at the beginning of this decade, it may have tickled you to see a 6-foot-8 black man among a group of Division III players wearing yarmulkes. But to those on the court and around the team, he was just Mike. See Also Michael Sweetney overcoming darkest Knicks moments at Yeshiva: ‘I’m changing lives’ Condolences came from around the basketball world on Thursday after former Knicks first-round pick Mike Sweetney died at 43.