Ivan Leshinsky is an American-Israeli former basketball player.
11 Facts About Ivan Leshinsky
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Ivan Leshinsky played three seasons in the Israeli Basketball Premier League, and competed for the Israeli national basketball team.
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Ivan Leshinsky later lived in Annapolis, Maryland, starting in 1974, with his wife, Babette, and their son Eric, and after a number of years the family moved to Baltimore, Maryland.
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Ivan Leshinsky then attended Midwood High School in Brooklyn, where he played center for the basketball team.
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Ivan Leshinsky attended Long Island University from 1963 to 1968.
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Ivan Leshinsky played in the 1968 National Invitation Tournament quarterfinals in Madison Square Garden in New York City.
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Ivan Leshinsky was selected by the Boston Celtics in the tenth round of 1968 NBA draft.
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Ivan Leshinsky chose instead to go to Israel to play basketball.
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Ivan Leshinsky played three seasons in the Israeli Basketball Premier League, all for Hapoel Tel Aviv, from 1968 to 1971.
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Ivan Leshinsky competed in the 1969 FIBA European Championship for Men, averaging 14.7 points per game, and at the 1970 Asian Games, at which he won a silver medal with Team Israel.
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In 1990 Ivan Leshinsky was named the head basketball coach at the Key School in Annapolis.