The Longest Goodbye: Friends, family mourned Dean Smith before his death
Posted Feb 11, 2015
The record will reflect that former North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith died on Saturday, at age 83. But to the players and assistants he had worked with most closely over 36 seasons, it felt as if he had left them years ago, when the feature that marked him so characteristically -- a dauntingly sharp memory -- began to slip away.
(Sports Illustrated)
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