Throughout his long career, Coach’s relationships with all of his players were special. And after his career as a coach was completed, he maintained his close ties to the men he had once led on the court. Every time I visited him, our conversation was interrupted by a phone call from one of his former players checking to see how he was doing. And every time we rode in a car together, he would ask to stop at the post office so that he could mail letters he’d written in response to people who wrote to him or asked him to autograph something. More than once he told me, “If, as a leader, you
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