Presenter Larry Brown truly will have the best seat in the house — in this case Springfield Symphony Hall — for his pupil Bill Self’s induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Friday night in Massachusetts.
“You walk out on the stage with him, sit and make yourself comfortable. You don’t have to give a speech anymore, which is great. You sit up there and smile and feel good about what’s happening,” said Brown, the former KU coach who was inducted into the Hall in 2002, of the current Jayhawks’ coach, Self.
Self — he started in coaching as graduate assistant on Brown’s 1985-86 KU Final Four staff — will be presented for induction by Brown, the only head coach to lead teams to both college and NBA championships.