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Former hoops star donates nets for the love of the game BY DYANA BAGBY dyanabagby@reporternewspapers.net
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About 20 years ago, Doug McKendrick noticed the basketball hoops at Allen Road Park in Sandy Springs had no nets. “You can’t play basketball without a net,” he said matter-of-factly. “Have you ever seen a high school game, a college game or a NBA game without a net?” So the businessman, now owner of the renowned McKendrick’s Steak House in Dunwoody, purchased some nets and installed them at the local park for the kids who enjoy playing there. And he hasn’t stopped. At 73, he no longer installs the nets. “That takes three people and a ladder,” he said. But he does like to buy up all the basketball nets at the Target on Roswell Road, keep them in the trunk of his car and drop a couple off at the park for the young people playing there to install themselves every few months when they become torn, ragged and See FORMER on page 13
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