Dave Newmark
David L. Newmark is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Columbia Lions.
Biography
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Newmark is Jewish, and graduated from Lincoln High School in New York City. He was a high school All-American.He played in the 1966 Pan American Maccabiah Games in Brazil, at which Team USA won a gold medal. He played with, among others, Barry Leibowitz, Mark Turenshine, and Rick Weitzman.
He played college basketball at Columbia University. As a sophomore in 1966 he had a rebounding average of 13.3 per game, scored 22.4 points per game, and was named an All-American. He was named All-Ivy League in 1966 and 1968.
A 7'0" center, he played in the National Basketball Association on the Chicago Bulls the 1968-69 season and on the Atlanta Hawks in 1969-70. He then spent the 1970–71 season in the American Basketball Association as a member of the Carolina Cougars. In his NBA/ABA career, he scored 1,003 total points and grabbed 678 total rebounds.
Newmark later played in Israel for Hapoel Tel Aviv during the 1973–74 and 1977–78 seasons.
He is a member of both the Columbia University Basketball Hall of Fame, and the Jewish Sports Heritage Association Hall of Fame.
He has two children, Rebecca Newmark Goldman and Brian Newmark.