Daily News | Donny Dodds ‘was a magician,’ Delaware County’s Pete Maravich
Pat Purcell, if you don’t know him, was a basketball star at Malvern Prep, went on to play at Delaware.of basketball, against a lot of people,” Purcell said this week, thinking back to summer leagues, high school tournaments, all of it.“The best five players I ever played against …”
“He and I were very close,” Purcell, who grew up in Upper Darby, messaged back. “I’m going to go through all the scrapbooks that my father made for my two brothers and I …”was all over those scrapbooks. He got them out, texted over a bunch of photos. “He wanted to be Donny Dodds,” Purcell said. “He didn’t want to be Pete Maravich. You’d see he got 25 points, and the team had 50. It didn’t tell half the story. The other 25 were because of him, with all the razzle-dazzle and the assists. He would look to dish it off, behind the back, through the legs first.”“He was a magician,” Purcell said. “We were teammates in summer leagues, so many summer leagues back then. We were actually on a travel team before there were travel teams.
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