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
thompson had surgery in 2015 to correct
A benign twisted intestine
which caused him to miss calling the
ncaa tournament that year
while we will miss john's presence to
tip off the ncaa tournament
we are most thankful that his health is
improving and he is feeling better every
day westwood one executive producer
howard dieneroff said back then
There is a seat waiting for him whenever
He is ready to return on the road to the .
before coaching in television the 610
thompson played college basketball at
providence college and won all-american
in his senior year
thompson was the friar's all-time leader
in points scoring average
and field goal percentage and second in
rebounds thompson was a third-round pick
by the boston celtics in the
1964 nba draft and was bill russell's
backup
in his nba career thompson averaged 3.5
points and 3.5 rebounds in 74 games .
thompson retired from basketball in 1966
to focus on coaching
before retiring he was drafted by the
chicago bulls in their expansion draft
in 1966
so was the late jerry sloane who'd later
become head coach of the utah jazz after
his playing career
according to a tweet from dc radio
station the teen 980 and 95.9
fm legendary georgetown hoyas basketball
coach
john thompson has died no other news
organizations have corroborated this .
report
a cause of death was not missioned and
calls and text messages to georgetown
university officials have not been
Respected to as of yet in 27 Seasons
thompson 78 compiled a coaching record
of 596 239
and 97 of his players stayed all four
years
and left with a college degree thompson
became the first african-american head
coach to win the ncaa national
championship when the hoyas beat the
university of houston cougars in the
1984 ncaa national championship game .
a nice smith basketball 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 .
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