HILLSIDE, N.J. — The wooden doors flung open and Mike Rice strolled into the cozy gym at the Patrick School, anxious to get going with his latest appointment.
Already that morning, Rice had worked out six high school and middle school basketball players in his day job at the Hoop Group in Neptune, N.J., and later he would return there to run two or three middle school-age teams through their paces before finishing up the night shooting with his daughter, Katie, and her friends at Red Bank Catholic High School. Between each stop, he said, he is usually in the car, “with a sandwich at my side.