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Dean Smith Basketball News & Bio


Name:Dean Smith
Hometown:Emporia, KS
High School:Emporia
Born:February 28, 1931
Died:February 7, 2015
Notes:Basketball Hall of Fame, 4x NCAA Coach of the Year, 1982 NCAA Championship coach, 879 wins
Dean Smith

How Dean Smith changed Bob McAdoo's life
Dean Smith was there that sad day in 1979, at the funeral for Bob McAdoo’s father. Smith was there again in 1991, right around Christmas,...

The Relentless Scrimmage In Dean Smith
This piece originally appeared in the March 1982 issue of Inside Sports: (Dean Smith) once devoured the works of theologians Soren Kierkegaard and Paul Tillich...

David Chadwick on Dean Smith: ‘To him, it was always about the team being first.’
David Chadwick, player for Smith at UNC from 1968 to 71, senior pastor at Forest Hill Church in Charlotte since 1980 and the author of...

Dean Smith always wanted his accomplishments to be about someone else
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...

Charlie Scott's children remember Dean Smith
Simone Scott, a UNC alum, shared a letter and gift that Dean Smith sent when she was born, as well as a photo that includes...

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