Kenny Pretlow Takes Over Lincoln’s Legendary Basketball Program
Over the past several years, Lincoln High School has become the mecca for high school basketball in New York City. Dwayne “Tiny” Morton — the man largely responsible for the team’s success over the past 19 years as the head coach of stars such as Stephon Marbury, Sebastian Telfair, Lance Stephenson and Isaiah Whitehead — has officially stepped down from his post.
It’s going to be a tough job to fill, but Lincoln thinks it has found the man for the job in Kenny Pretlow, Morton’s assistant coach for the last 12 years.
“Dwayne has teased me so much over the years about possibly leaving the school that when he finally told me that he was leaving, I thought he was joking,” said Renan Ebeid, the school’s athletic director. “When I finally sat down to think about who we might get to replace him, Kenny was one of the first people I thought about.”