Former NBA player Barry Kramer – San Francisco Warriors’ sixth pick in 1964 draft – dies at 82.
The 6’4″, 200-pound forward was a star at the high school and college level…earning top honors in the nation at Linton in Schenectady, N.Y. During his senior season, he was teammates with a legendary NBA coach, player and executive Pat Riley.
Kramer had success at NYU, where he had a career-best 29.3 points per game during his junior season in 1963.
That year, he was named to the All-American team and won the Haggerty Award, given to the top college player in the New York metro area.
Kramer went on to play in the NBA with the Warriors and New York Knicks for one season together … averaging four points per game.
He also played semi-professional basketball with the Schaefer Brewers and the ABA’s New Jersey Nets during the 1969-70 season.
Kramer attended Albany Law School, graduating in 1968. He served as a judge in New York for decades; Mario Cuomo In 1993, he was appointed a surrogate judge in his hometown of Schenectady.
In 2009, he was elected to the New York State Supreme Court for the state’s Fourth Judicial District.
