Jack Molinas

Jack Molinas

Jacob "Jack" L. Molinas (October 31 1931 – August 3, 1975 [cite web|url=http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=basketball&ID=376 |title=Molinas, Jack |publisher="JewsinSports.org" |accessdate=2008-03-12] ) was an American professional basketball player and one of the key figures in the point shaving scandal that almost destroyed NCAA basketball. Molinas attended Stuyvesant High School [cite news |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E2DD123EF930A35750C0A9649C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/K/Konigsberg,%20Eric |title=Double Dribbling |first=Eric |last=Konigsberg |date=2002-03-03 |publisher=New York Times |accessdate=2007-11-02] and graduated from Columbia University in 1953. He played briefly in the NBA in 1954, participating in 29 games for the Fort Wayne Pistons before being banned for game-fixing activities. Molinas was said to have contact to New York City mobster Thomas Eboli. Molinas was murdered in 1975.

External links

* [http://hoopedia.nba.com/index.php/Jack_Molinas Hoopedia bio]

References

*cite book |last=Rosen |first=Charley |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=The Wizard of Odds: How Jack Molinas Almost Destroyed the Game of Basketball |year=2003 |publisher=Seven Stories Press |location=New York |id=ISBN 1-58322-562-5


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