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Leonard's Impact on Indiana Basketball is Immeasurable

Surely no other state has someone as thoroughly representative of its basketball history as Indiana does with Bobby "Slick" Leonard.

From high school star to college All-American who hit the game-winning free throw for a national championship team to hell-raising coach of three professional championship teams to general manager to legendary broadcast analyst and cheerleader (Boom Baby!) to goodwill ambassador, Leonard has run the gamut of all a man can do in the game for one state.

OK, he didn't sell popcorn. But he would have if someone had given him the chance as a kid. He settled for selling ice cream out of a cart in the streets of his native Terre Haute during the Depression.