Twelve years ago, a gifted Sports Illustrated writer named Chris Ballard traveled to Thailand to profile Joe Bryant, who was then coaching a ragtag team in Bangkok. It was one of 11 stops in Bryant’s itinerant coaching career, which began at Lower Merion’s Akira Hebrew Academy in 1992 (where he served as the girls’ varsity coach) and ended in 2015 in Japan.
There was also time as an assistant at LaSalle, which just happened to be recruiting his son Kobe at the time, and a brief stint as a WNBA head coach.