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

Shaquille O’Neal: I almost chose UNC over LSU
As tributes for late North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith continue to pour in, former NBA star Shaquille O’Neal revealed Tuesday night on national TV...
Thu Feb 12, 2015

Dean Smith made everyone feel like they mattered
I like to think this is what made Dean Smith so special. He used his amazing powers of recall and applied them equally to everyone...
Thu Feb 12, 2015

Bond between Dean Smith, Woody Durham went beyond basketball
Woody Durham has called more than 1,800 basketball and football games at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including all but 10 years...
Wed Feb 11, 2015

The Longest Goodbye: Friends, family mourned Dean Smith before his death
The record will reflect that former North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith died on Saturday, at age 83. But to the players and assistants he...
Wed Feb 11, 2015

Tom Morris: My Dean Smith Story
We recently lost one of the great masters of basketball and life, former Tar Heel head coach Dean Smith. I don't get to meet many...
Wed Feb 11, 2015

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