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 |
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Forever my coach: Ryan McGee on how Johnny Majors changed his lifeWe should all have the blessing of a person in our lives we can call, simply, Coach. Perhaps it's the legend who had his painted...
Thu Jun 11, 2020
Chansky’s Notebook: Dean and ‘Dixie’North Carolina basketball coaching legend Dean Smith was 53 years ahead of NASCAR, which announced on Wednesday that the confederate flag would no longer be...
Thu Jun 11, 2020
Top 30 UNC Basketball Teams Of All-Time: No. 19 - 1975-76
A team with four gold-medal winning Olympians has to be pretty good, right? That was the case for the 1975-76 Tar Heels. Dean Smith was...
Thu Jun 11, 2020
Pistons acquisition of Rasheed Wallace shook the NBA – and brought another banner to Detroit
Nobody could have known for sure how emphatically Rasheed Wallace completed the Pistons. The ace Joe Dumars held in his pocket was Larry Brown, whose...
Wed Jun 10, 2020
UNC's George Lynch on What Made Dean Smith Great
George Lynch played at UNC from 1989-1993, capping his college career as a leader and starter on Carolina's 1993 National Championship team. Lynch played under...
Tue Jun 9, 2020