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 ====== Danny Nee ======
-**Position:** Guard\\
+**Position:** Guard/Forward\\
-**Height:** \\
+**Height:** 6'3"\\
 **Weight:** lbs.\\
-**Birthdate:** Brooklyn, New York\\
+**Birthdate:** \\
-**Hometown:** \\
+**Hometown:** Brooklyn, NY\\
-**High School:** Power Memorial in New York, NY\\
+**High School:** [[Power Memorial H.S.]]\\
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 Nee was a teammate of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then Lew Alcindor) at New York's Power Memorial High School.
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 He was a member of the [[Al McGuire|Al McGuire's]] first recruiting class at Marquette University. According to Charles Pierce's book, //Sports Guy//, Patrick Nee - Danny's father - told him he was going to Marquette (though Danny did not know where it was) after being "romanced" by Al McGuire over "tea and soda bread."
-He captained the Warriors' freshman team for frosh coach [[Hank Raymonds]] before dropping out in 1967 and enlisting (and beginning a two-year tour of duty) with the United States Marine Corps.
+He captained the Warriors' freshman team for frosh coach [[Hank Raymonds]]. Raymonds, many years later, commented on Nee's ability: "Danny was tremendously competitive. He played very large, even though he wasn't all that tall."
+But Nee dropped out of Marquette in 1966. He commented on it in the //Daily Nebraskan//, the University of Nebraska's student newspaper, in 1998: "Once I hit the bar scene, and I wasn't playing, and I was struggling academically, I just joined the Marine Corps." In a 2005 //Marquette Tribune// article, Nee recalls :"I was not equiped emotionally or mentally to stay on my own at that point."
 ===== Post-Marquette Career =====
+He enlisted with the United States Marine Corps and would participate in a two-year tour of duty.
 As a Vietnam veteran, Nee received Combat Air Insignia Medals and an honorable discharge in 1968.
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 He is now employed by Rutgers University to serve as the newly minted director of player development for the men's basketball program.
+===== Links =====
+  * [[http://www.marquettetribune.org/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=a88dfcd6-2c82-4992-be45-aa616bbc16ff|Learning From the Best (Marquette Tribune, 12/1/05)]]