COMMENTARY
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — His No. 44 West Virginia jersey, last worn 56 years ago, summons the echoes of 2,309 points, a still-standing career record achieved without benefit of a 3-point line or a freshman season.
A gold medal from the 1960 Rome Olympics where his U.S. basketball squad buried eight opponents by an average margin of 42 points.
A newspaper scrapbook of 6,000-plus Mountaineers fans greeting the team on the tarmac. Letters from some of the 50 schools that recruited him. Footage from the 1959 Final Four run. A photo from his Legend-Becoming-The-Logo days in the NBA.