NYC Legendary Coach Mo Hicks @rraider124 ...Its a honor to interview Mo Hicks, who has left such an impact on NYC Basketball has been since unmatched. He is the only coach to win a city championship in both the PSAL & CHSAA...Salute No Hicks, a True NYC Legend. 🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀 In 16 years at Rice high school in Harlem, Hicks won five New York State Federation championships and compiled a record of 352-86. Among Hicks' top players include Kansas State forward Curtis Kelly, Louisville point guard Edgar Sosa, Kemba Walker (Connecticut) 🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀 If you're from New York City, grew up in the late 1980s and throughout the '90s like I did, and follow CHSAA basketball; you'll automatically recognize Rice High School as one of the perennial dominant forces in city hoops, be it public school or private school. That's why it's still a shock 24 hours after the Harlem institution announced its decision to close. In other words, we truly bid farewell to a legend. 🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀 To honor the legacy of Rice basketball, we'll pay tribute to those that graced the green and gold colors of the Raiders by ranking the ten greatest players in Rice history similar to what we did with the college hoops bucket list in an earlier post. 🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀 Any mention of Rice basketball has to include its most decorated head man and former alumnus, one that spent 16 years turning a program once left for dead into one of the premier prep teams in the nation, let alone the city. The only coach in New York City to win both a CHSAA championship and a PSAL title, (with Brandeis in 1992) Hicks was responsible for a Who's Who of future college stars, some of whom will get their own tributes in this space later. He was the director of basketball operations at St. John's University, Hicks is still a profound influence on his former players and in the game. Now he is the Head of the Parks Dept at Riverbank State Park..... My Social Media @BasketballHeadzz Facebook Instagram Tik Tok Spotify Twitter: @Bheadzz --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app