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Tom Konchalski, Dogged Basketball Scout, Dies at 74
He traveled to schools, camps and schoolyards to evaluate high school players, and his reports were essential to college coaches in their recruiting.
Tom Konchalski in 2013 at a high school basketball game in Brooklyn. Though he didn’t drive a car, he traveled throughout the East for more than 40 years, scouting high school basketball players.Credit.Julie Glassberg for The New York Times
Feb. 21, 2021
For more than 40 years, Tom Konchalski was a fixture in gyms, summer camps and tournaments from Maine to West Virginia, a soft-spoken high school basketball scout whose newsletter was required reading for college coaches craving insights about potential recruits.