May 11th, 2010 with
You know the name Donnie Walsh. And if you don’t, and you call yourself an NBA fan, shame on you. This hoops lifer is the man who didn’t listen to his team’s fans and reaped the benefits, choosing Reggie Miller as Pacers GM in 1987 when most of Indiana screamed to select Hoosier hero [...]
May 10th, 2010 with
Larry Brown is the first, most direct branch off the Dean Smith coaching tree. But while their philosophies share some common threads, in some ways they couldn’t be more different. (Starting with their threads, as the picture below demonstrates.)
Larry Brown, fashion plate.
Take their anger management. Smith’s frustration could reveal itself in borderline comical ways, [...]