Happy Mother's Day, everyone!
One who will not be celebrating with us anymore is Chuck Daly, onetime head coach of the Detroit Pistons and the 1992 Olympic "Dream Team".
Daly was always one of my favorite coaches in the eighties and nineties. One of the things that took a while for me to realize was this. He always coached teams with lots of, let's just say, strong characters. Yet, he always looked like he was having fun.
And that's exactly the way most people seem to remember him as well.
In this age of screaming parent's, histrionic coaches and bloviating game announcers, it was truly a privilege to watch a guy win by plain outworking and outsmarting his opponents.
To a man who gave so much to the world, rest in peace!
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He will be missed!!! He was a great coach, one of the best tacticians of the game! Rest in piece!!
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