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

Learning from Coach Smith
It’s Dean Smith's successful, consistent attention to the “little things” I find astonishing. To treat every single person with respect and dignity and as if...
Mon Feb 9, 2015

Dean Smith’s caring touch, penchant for relationships shines through in death
As Michael Jordan often has done, Phil Ford, the college star in the 1970s who conducted UNC’s famed Four Corners offense and became the No...
Mon Feb 9, 2015

True greatness
Whenever somebody famous dies, writers wax poetic in obituaries about how great a person he or she was. Even in cases when the deceased wasn't...
Mon Feb 9, 2015

Chapel Hill mourns Dean Smith
The corned beef sandwich was his favorite. He almost always ordered it to go. Dean Smith didn’t want anyone to treat him differently or let...
Mon Feb 9, 2015

Dean Smith touched the lives of 12-year-olds and basketball icons alike
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,”...
Mon Feb 9, 2015

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