I have told this story before, but it bears repeating – especially because it leads to a remarkably prescient scouting report from 2016 on Dejounte Murray, the Spurs’ latest NBA All-Star.
Long-time readers know that I spent 8 years coaching NCAA basketball at Claremont McKenna College near Los Angeles. Our primary rival was — and still is — the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens, where some fellow named Gregg Popovich had his first coaching job, from 1977 through 1988. (I lost track of Gregg after he left Pomona-Pitzer. If anyone knows what became of him, please drop it in the comments section.