The Nathaniel "Tiny" Archibald Educational Basketball Clinic At  Kingsborough Community College
On Friday, October 2, 2015, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM, NBA great Mr. Nathaniel Archibald, will be conducting an Educational Basketball Clinic at Kingsborough Community College (KCC), for the Men's and Women's intercollegiate basketball teams. Mr. Archibald is better known to his teammates, fans, and sports writers, as Nate "the skate" Archibald, or, simply Tiny. He agreed to appear at the College's most recent Annual Athletic Awards Banquet, held April 15, 2015, as the event's keynote speaker.  In his presentation, he emphasized being born in the community of Harlem, New York, later moving to live in The Paterson Housing Projects in South Bronx, New York, with his parents, an older sister and 5 younger siblings - 3 boys and 2 girls. After graduating DeWitt Clinton High School in Bronx, New York, he attended Arizona Western Community College. After one year he was accepted on scholarship at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). As a side note, before the College's name change, it was known as Texas Western. Under Coach Don Haskins, with a team of African Americans on the court at the same time, defeated the perennial NCAA Basketball Champion, the University of Kentucky. Fast forward, this outcome strongly served to bring more African Americans into NCAA Division I play nationwide.  

When Mr. Archibald returns to KCC to conduct the clinic, he will emphasize the importance of the educational as well as the game/sport components of being a student athlete. He will share how the two components when worked together can allow students to go places and do things beyond their imagination. He will stress how the two can serve to make student athletes more well-rounded, team builders as players, and help them mature/actualize their leadership skill sets, especially, under pressure.  The Clinic will run for approximately two plus hours.

Finally, at the Annual Awards Banquet, it was exciting to see Kingsborough's own, Coach Dr. Lambert Shell, surprised when he realized Tiny was the keynote speaker, for Mr. Archibald coached  him on a team in the NBA's Developmental Basketball League (DBL). Small world.  

To conclude, the event will be held in KCC gymnasium between the hours of 5:00 PM and 7:00 PM. Though the sports side of the clinic is chiefly geared to the fundamentals of basketball, all serious minded student athletes can benefit from the educational aspects of the conversation with Mr. Archibald also.

Mr. Archibald has been presented with a plaque of appreciation for the time he took from his busy schedule to serve as the keynote speaker at KCC's 2014-2015 Athletic Awards Banquet, held in the College's Mac Rotunda facility.

Nathaniel "Tiny" Archibald (born September 2, 1948) is a retired American professional basketball player. He spent 14 years playing in the NBA, most notably with the Cincinnati Royals, Kansas City - Omaha Kings and Boston Celtics. In 1991 he was enshrined in the Naismith memorial basketball Hall of Fame.
 
Upon retiring from the NBA Mr. Archibald completed his bachelor's degree from University of Texas-El Paso by going back for three consecutive summers just prior to finishing his NBA career. He then taught in the New York City school system and attended night school at Fordham University. He received a master's degree from Fordham University in 1990 and a professional diploma in supervision and administration in 1994. He began long-distance correspondence work toward a doctorate from California Coast University in 2000 but ceased his studies because of "his lack of funds and the motivation to complete a long-distance correspondence curriculum." He has stated his hope to complete the degree in the future at Fordham.

Archibald was an assistant coach, spending one season in the University of Georgia and two with Texas-El Paso (where he worked with tim Hardaway). He has also coached the New Jersey Jammers of the USBL and in a Boston recreational league. Archibald coached in the National Basketball Developmental League in 2001. He resigned a year later to take a position with the NBA's community relations department.

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