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    Jul 19, 2019 3 minutes
    WORDS RYNE NELSON

    Jim Couch has been one of the most trusted and respected figures in New York City basketball since the 1960s. And yet, when Couch and former All-City forward Marian Moorer set out to start an NYC summer league for girls in 2002, they faced mostly rejection and doubt.

    “I caught flack about starting a girls’ league, but I was determined to have a girls’ league here,” the 90-year-old basketball icon remembers. “The guys told me, They would not help. And I said to them, I don’t care. […] The girls should have an equal opportunity as the boys.’”

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