Cliff Robinson, a key player with the New Jersey Nets when they featured Jason Kidd, Vince Carter and Richard Jefferson, has died. The UConn basketball program made the official announcement about the player Coach Jim Calhoun called his program’s first star. The Buffalo native was 53 and reports indicate he’d been hospitalized for months.
Robinson was, until Jamal Crawford played in the “bubble,” the oldest player to ever don a Nets uniform. He joined the Nets at the trade deadline in February 2005 in an exchange with the Warriors for two second rounders.