Supporting a good cause all that's needed to get George Karl to Lincoln

Posted Jun 4, 2017
It didn’t take much to get former NBA player and coach George Karl to Lincoln. Just a friend of a friend and a good cause. Karl was the keynote speaker at the Steve Vertin Memorial MRC Basketball Coaches Clinic on Friday. The clinic hosted coaches from around the state with the proceeds going to Vertin’s three grandchildren, who all a suffer from Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, (Lincoln Journal Star)

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