Dean Smith touched the lives of 12-year-olds and basketball icons alike

Posted Feb 9, 2015
He wasn’t ready. So he called the one man who always was. “I called him the night before I went to Kansas for the interview,” a teary-eyed Roy Williams said Sunday. “I said, ‘Coach, are you sure you want to do this? This is your school. You’re screwing them up here, telling them I can do the job. Are you sure you want to do this to your school?’” Of course he did. And on the other end of the phone, Dean Smith made that clear to his protege. (Daily Tar Heel)

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