THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1977
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VV YORK — Brian Taylor
quality you don’t find much
s a dele >re. He listens.
n’t something he picked up
either. He had this same
jty long before becoming the
stickout he is now with the
City Kings.
re years back, when he was a
sumedi d 100 ! hot-shot mulling over all
tates, ( sketball scholarship offers rol-
and trying to decide which
to choose, he found himself
ing closely to a man who
offering him anything. Noth-
aterial, anyway.
man was Pete Carril, the
arincipled, straight-up bas-
1 coach at Princeton, which
policy of no athletic schol-
U.S.Fi
rts.
eral ani
in Taylor liked the way Pete
talked. There was something
the way he did that made
r listen even more intently
danesj isual. Eight years have passed
Klamatl
that conversation, yet what
had to say made such an im-
n Taylor he still tries to live by
Bllildjjj
>s entire
on of all
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honest,’ he told me,” re-
lers Brian Taylor. “He said,
at me, I’m here at Princeton
m’t go out and recruit like the
coaches. I can’t send your
r flowers every day like some
others are doing. I won’t be
ing on your door every morn-
r writing you letters every
All I can promise you is that
completely honest with you
I ask you is to be the same
yourself’ ”
Debkvijan Taylor, who eventually
to Princeton and became
ManTfln there as “the black Jerry
West,” was merely doing his best to
be honest last Sunday when he
created a stir while being inter
viewed on CBS-TV between halves
of the Golden State Warriors-Los
Angeles Lakers’ playoff game in
Oakland.
“What about that rumor you want
to be traded to the Warriors?”
Taylor was asked.
“Who wouldn’t want to play out
here? ’ was his reply. “I’ve always
wanted to be close to my brother
because you need somebody to
check you out once in a while. I
really miss that. My family means a
whole lot to me. I enjoyed a good
season in Kansas City, but one thing
was lacking — playing in front of my
family, which is something I’ve
done all my life. I just miss that
spirit.”
“Are you saying you want to be
traded?” Taylor was asked.
“Take it like it was,” he an
swered.
Taylor’s older brother, Bruce, is a
cornerback with the San Francisco
49ers. The two are very close, so
much so that Brian has visited
Bruce the past seven summers and
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now is spending his vacation with
his older brother at his San Fran
cisco home.
“When I said what I did Sunday,
I meant nothing negative in regard
to Kansas City,” says the Kings’ 25-
year-old extraordinarily quick
backcourt man, who averaged 17
points a game this season, made
good on 50 per cent of his shots and
was second in the league in steals.
“My wanting to play on the West
Coast isn’t a money thing. It’s only a
strong desire to be with my brother
again and the rest of my family. I
love my brother. We go everywhere
together. He gets a big kick out of
seeing me play, but he was able to
only once or twice this year, be
cause with me playing for Kansas
City he seldom had the opportuni
ty”
Another younger brother, Blake,
is on a basketball scholarship at
Arizona State. The Taylors all grew
up in Perth Amboy, N.J., where
Bruce starred in football and Brian
and Blake in basketball.
The Kings aren’t happy over
Taylor’s expressed desire to leave
them. They say they aren’t going to
give him permission to speak with
other teams, but if someone comes
along with a good offer they’ll listen.
Product of a low-income project
in South Amboy, Taylor was admit
ted to Princeton solely on his
academic ability, not his basketball
ability.
He was a hardship case, though,
and when the New York Nets came
along with a four-year contract at
$125,000 a year after his junior year
at Princeton, Taylor had a big deci
sion to make.
“My mother said whatever I de
cided, she was behind me,” says
Taylor. “My father, being a laborer,
said I’d have to go with the money. I
hated leaving Princeton and hope to
finish my education there some day,
but I don’t regret my decision. I be
lieve I did the right thing.”
Taylor was ABA Rookie of the
Year with the Nets in 1972-73 the
same way his brother, Bruce, was
NFL Rookie of the Year with the
Forty-Niners in 1970. With the
money they made, the two brothers
bought a home in Edison, N.J., for
their mother and father and now
would like to move them out to San
Francisco so the family could all be
together again.
That’s why Brian Taylor said what
he did Sunday. He was only being
honest, the way Pete Carril told him
to be.
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