Of course, that was certainly one very real part of his persona.
I’m just saying there was more there that didn’t often get publicly displayed - but which was also a very real part of his persona.
Beyond that, I always loved that he called Michael Jordan the best player he’d ever seen play...
Really, the positive attributes were even more than not cheating and graduating players.
Most people would be surprised at how generous and thoughtful he could be - because he was simultaneously (and more publicly) one of the world’s great a-holes.
And despite the rivalry, he had some great...
One of the teams the Milan team (the inspiration for the Hickory Huskers in “Hoosiers”) beat on the way to the 1954 state championship was Crispus Attucks, led by sophomore guard Oscar Robertson.
I always wondered why they left that out of the movie.
Over the following two seasons, Attucks...