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Rick Barry recalls playing days at Coliseum

Mark Herrmann

Newsday columnist Mark Herrmann

Herrmann has covered the Mets and Yankees since 1988,

Take it from one of the greatest basketball players who ever lived. Rick Barry remembers when poor, dear, old Nassau Coliseum was its own beacon. Long, long before the Lighthouse Project, the Coliseum was filled with hope, if not every imaginable amenity.

And while it never was a palace, it had potential. It sure was a massive upgrade.

“It definitely was better than the Island Garden,”...

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