MARK FEW WANTED Ty Lue to get some fresh air away from basketball at the Olympics. He kept trying to coax his fellow Team USA assistant coach to venture outside of their Paris hotel this summer.
"He's in his comfortable little box," Few told ESPN earlier this month from the Summer Games. "I try to get him outside and get him to grow and see the rest of the world out there."
Lue, though, was broadening his horizons on basketball. When Lue wasn't coming up with schemes as Team USA's defensive coordinator to slow down Serbia's Nikola Jokic or France's Victor Wembanyama, he was also learning from some of the game's best coaches.