Without a Penn State basketball coach, Michael Jordan may not have won six NBA championships.
Though ESPN’s “The Last Dance” outlined Jordan’s masterful NBA career in great detail, a coach with Penn State ties assisted head coach Phil Jackson to kickstart the iconic Chicago Bulls dynasty — John Bach.
“Coach Bach was truly one of the greatest basketball minds of all-time,” Jordan said to the Chicago Tribune in 2016. “He taught me so much, encouraged me, worked with me and really helped to mold my professional game.
“Without him, I don’t know that we would’ve won our first three championships.