He guided the Cardinals to 462 victories. He also captured a Catholic High School Athletic Association (CHSAA) championship as a player himself in 1943 for La Salle, before going on to play college basketball at St. John\u2019s and Duke where the guard served as team captain. A member of the CHSAA Hall of Fame, NYC Basketball Hall of Fame, and New York State Basketball Hall of Fame in March, the legendary coach (Buckley also coached at Merchant Marine Academy for 11 years) who passed away in January 2024 at 78-years-old will receive one more deserved achievement to honor his impact and influence.<\/p>\n
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Complete with school colors and a polished shine to start the 2025-26 high school basketball season at La Salle Academy. \/ Christian Agredo<\/p>\n
Prior to the Cardinals hosting their 2025-26 season opener on Monday, December 1 against Monsignor McClancy High School, La Salle Academy will unveil its new NBA designed gym floor with the dedication of the Dan Buckley Memorial Gym.<\/p>\n
The design featuring a New York City skyline and La Salle Cardinals branding was created by Christopher Arena, Senior VP & Head of On-Court & Brand Partnerships at the NBA, and supported through a generous donation by La Salle alum Salvatore LaRocca, President of Global Partnerships at the NBA and La Salle Board Chair).\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\u201cFor nearly over 175 years, La Salle Academy has been educating young men throughout New York,\u201d said Salvatore LaRocca.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the core of La Salle are exceptional and committed student-athletes that excel in the classroom, on the court and in the community, and no one embodies that spirit more than La Salle\u2019s own Coach Dan Buckley.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Gone but not forgotten, Coach Dan Buckley’s tenure coaching basketball in New York City for 33 years made him a beloved icon. \/ Facebook<\/p>\n
The school founded in 1848 has turned out eight student-athletes who went on to play in the NBA including Metta Sandiford-Artes, Dick McGuire, God Shammgod, James Bouknight, John Roche, Tom Owens, Ed Bartels, and Bill Kenville. Now the next time La Salle Academy sends another player to the league, they can proudly boast that the journey started on the court simply known as the home that Dan Buckley built.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-299999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}