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Once a Knick always a Knick
When Marvin Webster strolled into Hurt Gymnasium in 1971 to meet the members of the Morgan State basketball team for the first time, his future teammates at the Baltimore school were less than excited.“He was a nice kid, but he wasn’t that developed,” remembers Joe McIver, a 1974 graduate from Morgan and currently the school’s senior associate athletics director. “I wasn’t very impressed.”
What McIver and his teammates saw in Webster was youth and inexperience.
What Morgan State coach Nat Frazier identified in recruiting Webster, who was 6 feet, 10 inches tall in his senior year at Edmondson High School in West Baltimore, was length and potential.
His nickname was the eraser - because of his shot blocking.
Yes, the Human Eraser. Came to the Knicks to form the "twin Towers" with Bill Cartwright. This was in the earliest days of my Knick fandom -- I never knew about the hepatitis but I recall he was a big disappointment. The first of many in my time! But very sad -- I didn't know what had become of him or his backstory.
I recall seeing him in the lobby of Madison Square Garden during the playoffs in the 90s. I thought it was kinda of odd cause he was ex player. The next day there was a small mention of that in an article.
