Don Goldstein
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| Born | 1937/1938 (age 79–80) | ||||||||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||
| Listed height | 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) | ||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 190 lb (86 kg) | ||||||||||||
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| High school | Tilden (Brooklyn, New York) | ||||||||||||
| College | Louisville (1956–1959) | ||||||||||||
| NBA draft | 1959 / Round: 2 / Pick: 8th overall | ||||||||||||
| Selected by the Detroit Pistons | |||||||||||||
| Position | Forward | ||||||||||||
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Donald "Don" Goldstein, known as "Red," is an American former college All-American and Pan American Games champion basketball player.
Goldstein is Jewish. His mother died when he was four. He grew up poor, in the Brooklyn ghetto of Brownsville, and attended Flatbush's Samuel J. Tilden High School, where he was an all-city basketball player and graduated in 1955.
He attended the University of Louisville on a scholarship that paid for room, board, and books, and played forward for the school from 1956 to 1959. He was 6' 5", and 190 pounds. He said: "these guys never saw a Jew. They once asked me once with no malice how old I was when they cut off my horns. I never had a bad day [with my teammates]. I never heard one anti-Semitic remark in Louisville. If you could play, that was it."
In 1959, Goldstein was named All-American and led Louisville to its first-ever appearance in the NCAA Final Four. Goldstein averaged 21.4 points and 10.0 rebounds in the NCAA tournament, and was named to the All-Mideast Regional Team and the All-Tournament Team.
That same year, he won a gold medal in basketball at the 1959 Pan American Games.
In his three years at Louisville, Goldstein scored 1,019 points (the 10th Cardinal to score over 1,000 points) and had 838 rebounds (still 10th all-time in school history).
Goldstein was the first pick in the second round (8th overall) of the Detroit Pistons in 1959, offered a $7,500 ($62,000 in current dollar terms) salary and a $500 ($4,000 in current dollar terms) signing bonus to buy a car, but he did not play in the NBA. Instead, he went to dental school, and is currently a dentist on Long Island. Today, he lives in Huntington, New York.
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