Ex-NBA player and New York Supreme Court judge Barry Kramer dead at 82 Former NBA player-turned lawyer and judge Barry Kramer died Saturday at the age of 82.
'I can't tell you how many people that grew up in Schenectady looked up to Barry Kramer,' Bob Pezzano, who attended Linton High School like Kramer told the Albany Times-Union.
Kramer later became a lawyer and then a judge for the New York Supreme Court.
Kramer, a native of Schenectady, New York, was named an All-American while playing collegiately for NYU before being selected by the San Francisco Warriors in the 1964 NBA Draft.
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