As a run-up to the '76 Olympics in Montreal, the U.S. team, coached by University of North Carolina coach Dean Smith, came to Bethlehem to take on the Allentown Jets, champions of the Eastern Basketball Association, which served as a minor league for the NBA....Smith had just finished his 15th season as coach of North Carolina. Smith was already well known to Lehigh Valley basketball fans after recruiting Catasauqua star Larry Miller in 1964. (Allentown Morning Call)
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