John William Isaacs (September 15, 1915 – January 26, 2009)[1] was a Panamanian-American professional basketball player.
[2] Isaacs scored a game-high 11 points to lead the Bears to a 43–31 win and their first title.
Isaacs supplemented his professional salary with jobs on the assembly line at Grumman Aircraft and at New York Life Insurance during the off season.
[7] Long after retiring from professional sports, Isaacs won medals at the New York State Senior Games in tennis, Frisbee, softball throwing, as well as in basketball.
[4] On February 14, 2015, Isaacs was announced as a member of that year's induction class of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.