Let's suppose, for a moment, the American Basketball Association had never been formed in 1967 and Bob Leonard had continued living in Kokomo, peddling graduation supplies and class rings to high schools throughout northern Indiana while raising a family with his wife, Nancy.
Let's suppose his coaching career with the Baltimore Bullets, which ended in 1964, had been the last time he drew a paycheck from a basketball team, and that he had simply drifted off into the "real world" life of a salesman.
What would we think of him today? What would be his reputation if he had never led the Pacers to ABA championships, never worked for the Pacers as a broadcast analyst, never achieved induction into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame?