Queens Hall Of Famer Named ‘Good Guy’

This is a week that Herb Turetzky will not soon forget.
This past Sunday, the Bayside resident was honored at the Commack YJCC with the Dick Steinberg Good Guy Award by the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
“It’s just a great group of people to be involved with,” Turetzky said.
And on Saturday, Turetzky will work his 900th consecutive New Jersey Nets home game as the team’s official scorekeeper.
“I’m actually very surprised I’ve been able to keep going,” he said. “As long as they keep inviting me, I’ll keep coming.”
Surely, Turetzky will. In his 38th year with the Nets, Turetzky was inducted into the New York Basketball Hall of Fame last year, and introduced by his longtime friend Julius Erving, also known as Dr. J.
He has been with the team since they were out on Long Island in the 1970’s with Erving and Super John Williamson leading the team to a pair of ABA championships, and has stuck around ever since.
Turetzky began keeping score when the Nets were the New Jersey Americans in the ABA in 1967, and hasn’t missed a game since 1984.
In addition, Turetzky has helped run the Maurice Stokes Benefit Basketball game, which provides funds for former NBA players in need of financial or medical assistance, at Kutcher’s Country Club in Monticello for the last 25 yearsHe also owns Crown Trophy, a Bayside business approaching its 20th anniversary. Crown makes trophies and plaques for youth groups and high school athletic teams and leagues.
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