Ahmad Aliyy helped lead Linden McKinley to its first OHSAA State Championship in 1967.
Ahmad Aliyy, the co-founder and president of the Greater Columbus Basketball Legend Association and a former All-American and Linden McKinley High School Hall of Fame basketball player, died Sunday morning.Formerly Edward"Skip" Young, Aliyy helped lead the Panthers to their first OHSAA state championship in 1967, finishing as tournament MVP and first-team All-State at guard before playing collegiately at Florida State.
For Aliyy, the move to Florida State was significant, joining coach Hugh Durham, who brought the first Black player, Lenny Hall, to the program one season before. Aliyy was one of the first starting varsity Black athletes at Florida State.As Aliyy told the Tallahassee Democrat in a 2019 interview, he helped open the door for future Black athletes at Florida State, something that took awhile to adjust to on both sides.
"He was a good guy, a hell of a player," Cowens said."He was our point guard and ran our team, directed the press. I was so glad he got into coaching, too. I know he had success. ... but he was one of those guys who didn't brag about anything."Aliyy was drafted by the Celtics in the seventh round of the 1971 NBA draft and by the New Jersey Nets in the seventh round of the ABA draft.
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