DALY DEPARTS AS A COACH IN THE CLASSIC STYLE
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1994/05/29/daly-departs-as-a-coach-in-the-classic-style/94a7f853-ed8d-4718-98f4-8d14d1991ac9/ By JOHNETTE HOWARD May 29, 1994 Turn out the lights, lock up the gym. When New Jersey Nets coach Chuck Daly bowed out this week, the NBA coaching ranks didn't lose just a good man. Out with him went a coaching archetype. He's the last of the basketball Lifers , a throwback to whistle-blowing, rung-climbing guys who were in basketball before anyone dreamed it would become billion-dollars big, and teams would travel exclusively by charter flights, and seven-figure salaries would be met with a blink and a yawn. Long before all that or even the advent of the 24-second clock, Daly was simply in love with basketball for basketball's sake . During his championship run in Detroit he dusted off two classics -- team defense and the screen-and-roll -- and rode them all the way to championships. He saw no shame in taking jobs other coaches pursed