Eddie Sutton died on Saturday, and that’s really sad. But it’s also sweet to be able to look back on what he meant to the people whose lives he passed in and out of throughout the years.
Two of those lives that meant the most to me in my childhood belong to Doug Gottlieb and Desmond Mason. They were seniors in college when I was a freshman in high school, and boy are those freshman-in-high-school years formative.
I was enamored with their teams, with what they accomplished and with how they hooped. All things considered — and specifically because of the intersection of life, age and timing — I think you could probably say those Desmond-Doug-Joe Adkins teams were my favorite sports teams ever.