Dambrot was a first-round draft pick of the New York Knicks and the Most Outstanding Player of the 1950 NCAA basketball tournament.

[1] A 6-foot–4, 175–pound forward, He played for coach Nat Holman at the City College of New York (CCNY), where he was a senior captain in 1950 and led the Beavers to a 24–5 record and the NCAA basketball championship, earning MVP honors in the tournament.

A January 19, 2003, article in the New York Daily News described Dambrot as "a sharp-shooting forward known for his relentless enthusiasm."

Dambrot was selected in the first round (seventh overall) by the New York Knicks in the 1950 NBA draft, though he chose a career in dentistry after graduating from CCNY to go to the Columbia University College of Dental Medicine soon afterward.

According to a March 20, 1996, article in the New York Times by Ira Berkow, "the CCNY players who were convicted had accepted bribes from gamblers not to throw games, but to keep them under the point spreads.