Posted on 06/07/2011 8:45:55 PM PDT by kcvl
A former basketball captain for the Duke Blue Devils jumped to his death from the top of the New York Athletic Club on Central Park South today, police said.
Thomas Emma, 49, of Manhattan, plunged from the 12th-floor of the building at around 11:20 a.m. and crashed down on a second floor landing of the Essex House hotel, sources said.
Friends said that Emma had recently dealing with health issues, but would not specify what exactly Emma was afflicted with.
Emma played for Duke University from 1980-1983 and was a tenth-round pick for the Chicago Bulls in 1983, but never played a regular season game.
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Man. Talk about “having no jump ball.”
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