- Andrew Levane
Andrew Joseph (Fuzzy) Levane (born
April 11 1920 inBrooklyn ,New York ) is a formerbasketball player and coach. A 6'2" guard, he played collegiately at St. John's University. He spent three years in theNBA and its predecessor league, theBasketball Association of America , playing for the Rochester Royals, the Syracuse Nationals and the Milwaukee Hawks. In his final year with the Hawks he was aplayer-coach .Levane coached the Hawks for one additional season, then coached the New York Knickerbockers. He returned to the Hawks, now playing in St. Louis, for a final season in 1962.
The original Fuzzy's son, Neil, aka Fuzzy, was a
basketball star at Great Neck South high school onLong Island, New York from 1963-67. After playing for a year on the freshmen team at theUniversity of Houston , he transferred to St. John's University in Queens where he played from 1968-70.External links
* [http://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/levanan01c.html BasketballReference.com: Andrew Levane (as coach)]
* [http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/l/levanan01.html BasketballReference.com: Andrew Levane (as player)]
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