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. == References ==