Dean Smith always wanted his accomplishments to be about someone else

Posted Feb 12, 2015
I remember Dean Smith’s handshake. I was a kid, maybe 10 in the mid-1960s, when I met Smith for the first time after a North Carolina basketball game at the original Charlotte Coliseum. When he shook my hand, I did my best not to whimper because he had a grip like a vise. It was the first time I felt conviction in a handshake. (Charlotte Observer)

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