Legendary basketball coach John Thompson ....
twitter report claims ex-georgetown coach john thompson has died nice smith hall of fame inductee and three-time big east coach of the year thompson retired from coaching in 1999 and cited marital issues during his tenure at georgetown he coached several nba first-round picks including patrick ewing alonso mourning bill martin sleepy floyd and alan iverson in his hall of fame induction speech in 2016 iverson . the philadelphia 76ers first pick in the 1996 nba draft iverson thanked thompson for keeping him alive i want to thank coach thompson for saving my life he said for giving me the opportunity i was recruited by every school in the country for football and basketball and an incident happened in high school and all that was taken away no other teams no other schools were recruiting me anymore My mom went to georgetown and begged him to give me a chance and he did after his coaching career . thompson became a television and radio annalize with stops at turner and westwood won thomp
