Chris Mullin (basketball)

Christopher Paul Mullin is an American retired basketball player and current head coach of the St. Johns Red Storm. He previously served as special advisor for the Sacramento Kings and general manager of the Golden State Warriors. He is a twotime Olympic Gold medalist and a twotime Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee , and in 2011 for his individual career.

Chris was born in Brooklyn, New York. As a young player in New York, Mullin studied the games of Knicks stars Walt Frazier and Earl Monroe while admiring Larry Bird and wearingin honor of John Havlicek. As a youth, he regularly traveled to the Bronx and Harlem, predominately African American neighborhoods, to play against the best basketball players in New York City. From a young age, he paved a path for himself to become a legend in the Diocese of Brooklyn. His name began to spread while playing CYO basketball at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish on Flatlands Avenue. Along with playing CYO basketball at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish, Mullin attended Lou Carneseccas basketball camp with future Xaverian teammates Roger McCready, Gerard Shepard, Mike OReilly, and Joe Cannizo. Mullin began his high school career at Power Memorial Academy, where he was a teammate of Mario Elie. He transferred as a junior to Xaverian High School . He also played with Ross LaCorte, current coach at Island Garden Bas

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