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Published on: 1/18/2002
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‘‘A basketball is in your face so much you have no choice but to learn it,'' Patriots point guard Omar Cook said.
Cook, Jeff Aubry, John Strickland, and Ramel Lloyd grew up in New York where playing basketball could consume more than half the day.
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Aubry also played against the same high school that produced Cook.
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Strickland works out with Cook over the summer.
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Strickland is 10 years older than Cook and in the New York playground family lingo, Strickland says Cook is like a son.
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Strickland is 10 years older than Cook and in the New York playground family lingo, Strickland says Cook is like a son.
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‘‘They think they took me under their wing,'' Cook said.‘‘But in actuality, I took them under my wing.''
History
What jump-started the craze that consumed Strickland, Aubry, Lloyd, Cook and Worthen as children?