Eric Minkin

Eric Minkin (; November 28, 1950 – March 25, 2025) was an American-Israeli basketball player. He played the center position. He played in the Israeli Basketball Premier League, and for the Israel national team.

Biography Minkin was tall, and was Jewish.

He attended Germantown Academy ('68), where in basketball Minkin was a three-time Philadelphia High School Inter-Academic League First-Teamer, from 1966-68. Minkin scored 1,358 career points for the school—at the time, the school record.

Minkin played basketball for Team USA in the 1969 Maccabiah Games in Israel. Others playing on the team included Andrew Hill, Steve Kaplan, and Neal Walk. He graduated as a First Team Jewish All-American.

Minkin was a resident of Sarasota, Florida. He died there on March 25, 2025, at the age of 74. Prior to his death, he had worked for 22 years as a registered nurse in Sarasota Memorial Hospital’s cardiac acute unit.