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Brooklyn Nets Honor Superfan Jeffrey Vanchiro

ByDave Fuqua|

After the sudden and shocking death of the Brooklyn Nets superfan Jeffrey Vanchiro, the team honored him with pre-game t-shirts.

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The Brooklyn Nets decided to honor quite possibly their most famous fan who is better known as Jeffrey Gamblero, who became well-known after being ejected from the game without his prosthetic leg. He received a lot of national attention after that Nets and New York Knicks game but for the Nets fans he has been known for sometime now. You could always catch Jeffrey donning some very bright neon shirts while he danced through the crowd.

On Saturday night Jeffery Vanchiro fell from a second story window in Queens. He was on a ventilator late Sunday Afternoon according to the New York Times.

"Vanchiro was staying at his father’s house Saturday night. Vanchiro’s fiancée, Kristi Evans, who was with Vanchiro’s family at New York Hospital Queens on Sunday, said that Vanchiro’s father told her that Vanchiro awoke apparently disoriented and leapt from the building. Evans said that Vanchiro sustained severe brain damage and a fractured spinal cord in the fall, and that his brain had stopped functioning Sunday morning."

In November the Times did an article on Vanchiro that described his passion and fervor for his beloved Nets. The feature goes on to talk about how he earned the name Jeffrey Gamblero and how he earned thousands of dollars playing poker. Vanchiro also spent some time as a well-known graffiti artist.

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