His record has continued to make him one of the top players ever at St. John\'s. In 2005 Dove was among the first ten men selected for "Basketball Legacy Honors" at the university. In 2011 Dove was inducted into the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame.\n', '

Lloyd Dove, Jr. was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1945 and nicknamed "Sonny." His father was Lloyd Dove, a member of the Narrangansett tribe. Sonny\'s mother Adeline B. Dove (1921–2010) was Mashpee Wampanoag and the sister of Earl Mills, Sr. (Flying Eagle), the hereditary sachem since 1956 of this people. His siblings are Larry Dove of Mashpee and Gladys Dove Barnes of Queens, N.Y. By Wampanoag matrilineal tradition, the children are considered to belong to the mother\'s clan.\n', '

The Doves divorced. In 1951 Adeline Dove married Donald Hicks, Sr. of Mashpee, Massachusetts, and returned to the town where she had grown up. She had more children with Donald: Donnella Hicks Pocknett, Errol Hicks, Donald Hicks, Jr., and Gary Hicks, all of Mashpee.\n', '

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