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Two of Roy Williams friends, former players reflect on his early days as high school coach


Porky Spencer joked Friday that his homeroom teacher at Charles D. Owen High School in Black Mountain, some guy by the name of , did pretty well for himself. “I will say Roy is doing a lot better today than he did on Thursday,” Spencer said from Chapel Hill, where he was visiting with Williams the day after Williams’’ retirement announcement. (Winston-Salem Journal)

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Two of Roy Williams friends, former players reflect on his early days as high school coach