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Legendary basketball coach John Thompson ....

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  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

clifford robinson

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clifford robinson : former nba all-star and sixth man of the year dies at 53 nicknamed uncle cliffy robinson spent 18 seasons with five nba teams including the portland trailblazers clifford robinson former nba all-star and sixth man of the year has died at 53 the university of connecticut basketball program confirmed the news early on saturday morning no cause of death has been announced a star at uconn robinson played four years with the huskies under legendary head coach jim calhoun helping the team win the knit in 1988. he later had his number retired by the program and calhoun called him their first great player he continued he was a good man had a great career and was instrumental in a lot of the great things that happened at uconn after graduating from uconn robinson was drafted with the 36th overall pick in the second round of the 1989 nba draft by the portland trailblazers he grew into a key member of those great portland teams of the late 80s and early 90s helping them make t