{{Short description|American basketball player}} {{Infobox basketball biography | image = Hy Gotkin.jpg | image_size = 150px | caption = | name = Hy Gotkin | position = Guard | height_ft = 5 | height_in = 8 | weight_lbs = | league = American Basketball League | team = | number = | birth_date = August 16, 1922 | birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2004|4|11|1922|8|16}} | death_place = Delray Beach, Florida, U.S. | high_school = Thomas Jefferson<br/>(Brooklyn, New York) | college = St. John's (1942–1944 ) | career_start = 1942 | career_end = 1944 | team1 = New York Gothams | years1 = 1945–1946 | team2 = Elizabeth Braves | years2 = 1946–1947 | highlights = * Third-team All-American – Argosy, SN (1945) }} '''Hyman "Hy" Gotkin''' (August 16, 1922 – April 11, 2004) was an American professional basketball player who played the guard position.<ref name="jewsinsports1">{{cite web|url=http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=basketball&ID=155 |title=Gotkin, Hy |publisher=Jewsinsports.org |access-date=August 10, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qjOYf1YAhaoC&dq=gotkin&pg=PA52 |title=Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience |author=Peter Levine |date= 1993-09-09|publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=August 10, 2011|isbn=9780195359008 }}</ref> He was Jewish, and attended Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ydmtk2HGrcAC&dq=hy+gotkin+knicks&pg=PA326 |title=Jews of Brooklyn |author=Ilana Abramovitch, Seán Galvin |access-date=August 10, 2011|isbn=9781584650034 |year=2002 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jewishsports.org/jewishsports/detail.asp?sp=236 |title=Jewish Sports Hall of Fame |publisher=Jewishsports.org |date=June 8, 2008 |access-date=August 10, 2011 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110901211851/http://www.jewishsports.org/jewishsports/detail.asp?sp=236 |archive-date=September 1, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xcfef_d2es4C&dq=hy+gotkin+jewish&pg=PA135 |title=The Big Book of Jewish Sports Heroes; An Illustrated Compendium of Sports History and The 150 Greatest Jewish Sports Stars|author=Peter S. Horvitz |access-date=August 10, 2011|isbn=9781561719075|year=2006|publisher=SP Books }}</ref> He played basketball for St. John's University from 1942–44, as they won the National Invitational Tournament (NIT) championships in 1943 and 1944.<ref name="jewsinsports1"/> He had a four-year professional career, playing in the American Basketball League.<ref name="jewsinsports1"/>
Gotkin died in 2004 at the age of 81.<ref name="jewsinsports1"/> He is a member of the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame and the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame<ref name="jewsinsports1"/>
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