A Forgotten Man In Brooklyn: The Coach Who “Cut” MJ

Posted Aug 11, 2013
He approaches his dilapidated light blue house on Cowan Street, and the collective attention of the group sitting in stained plastic lawn chairs in his grassless yard shifts to him. “He’s not in the right state of mind,” one of them says. Depending on who you talk to, the stumbling man’s name is Clifton Herring or Pop or Coach or The Man Who Cut Michael Jordan. He prefers Pop. (Thrill City)

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