By Dennis D’Agostino
John Andariese lived the quintessential New York basketball life.
He walked, talked, lived and loved the game with every fiber of his being...from the streets of Brooklyn, to the ancient gym at Rose Hill, to the Eastern League, and finally to the biggest, most glittering stage of them all.
There was nowhere he wouldn’t go to watch a game...from the high school gyms to the old Pro-Ams to Summer League. He was a gym rat before they even had a name for it.
John was so much more than a former player, an announcer, an analyst.