When I was a little kid, falling in love with basketball, John Thompson (and John Chaney) didn& #39;t look, sound, or coach like anyone else. I didn& #39;t understand how important that was until I was much older.
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Wilt Chamberlain popularized the idea, "No one roots for Goliath," but Thompson& #39;s Hoyas made it cool to want to be the big guy, to want to be in the post like Ewing, & #39;Zo, Mutombo, and Big O.

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Think what you will of his methods or that he spoke his mind at a time when that was borderline taboo for black authority figures, but he built something from nothing, in a tough place to do it, and did it without anyone rooting for him.

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