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https://www.basketballnetwork.net/old-school/when-darryl-dawkins-tried-scaring-chuck-daly-into-giving-him-playing-time Chuck Daly handled Darryl Dawkins' threat the very next day before the Pistons practice. STEPHEN BESLIC  - SEP 17, 2021 Whether you remember Darryl Dawkins for being the league's ultimate backboard shatterer (he broke two of them in the span of three weeks) or for his powerful throw-downs, everyone would agree on one thing - Dawk was one of the NBA's most intimidating forces. At 6-11, 251 lbs, his physical presence in the paint, in an era that allowed its manifestation, was a nightmare to deal with for every NBA team from the '70s and '80s. Unfortunately, his basketball legacy stopped at that. Instead of translating his gifts into numbers, Dawkins settled for being nothing more than a reliable NBA contributor. That's something even Kareem Abdul Jabbar holds against him . "Darryl spent so much time being a clown and not focusing on the fin...

https://vault.si.com/vault/1979/03/26/the-team-of-64-ucla-was-just-one-more-school-with-a-basketball-team-until-seven-players-introduced-the-bruins-to-the-art-of-winning-by-going-30-0-and-taking-the-ncaa-title UCLA WAS JUST ONE MORE SCHOOL WITH A BASKETBALL TEAM UNTIL SEVEN PLAYERS INTRODUCED THE BRUINS TO THE ART OF WINNING BY GOING 30-0 AND TAKING THE NCAA TITLE FRANK DEFORD Sports Illustrated -  MARCH 26, 1979 TABLE OF CONTENTS ORIGINAL LAYOUT Anyway, does it matter, this winning of games? Of course, for the moment, for the glory, for the fun of it, it is somewhat better than losing games. But does it count in the way that coaches—most of them, at least—swear that it does? Does it add to the quality of life, make for better Americans? Should we get bumper stickers made up saying: WINNERS MAKE BETTER.... What? What exactly do winners do besides win? This is not an original puzzlement. As far back as 22 centuries ago, one of the wiser Greeks concluded, "Those who know how to win ...

https://vault.si.com/vault/1979/03/26/out-west-depaul-had-a-ball JOE JARES Sports Illustrated -  MARCH 26, 1979 TABLE OF CONTENTS ORIGINAL LAYOUT For the first time since World War II, DePaul is in the final four of the NCAA tournament, and as if a wait of 36 years wasn't enough, the Blue Demons found their road to Salt Lake City to be the most rugged traveled by any of the four teams that will compete there. Because of the vagaries of the tournament selection process, they had to travel far from their Chicago home to play in Provo, Utah . They had to get by UCLA, not only the best shooting team (.555) in college basketball history , but also a team that had beaten them by 23 points in November. And, in an era when most good college teams use platoons of substitutes, they had to rely on only five men. DePaul's bench, you see, consists of seven fellows whose toughest chore seems to be standing up during time-outs so that the members of the Fatigued Five can take a seat . The su...

https://d9and10sports.com/kane-graduate-former-punxsutawney-coach-chuck-daly-inducted-into-fiba-hall-of-fame/ by Chris Rossetti July 13, 2021 The signed photo of Chuck Daly on the left is courtesy of the Chuck Daly Foundation, while the young Daly photo on the right is from the Punxsutawney yearbook when Daly was coaching at the school. MIES, SWITZERLAND – Kane graduate and former Punxsutawney boys’ basketball coach Chuck Daly, who was the coach of the gold medal USA Dream Team at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, was recently inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame. The indication was done via an online ceremony that was filmed on June 2 and released on June 18, 2021, on the 89th anniversary of the founding of FIBA, the International Basketball Federation. The FIBA Hall of Fame is located at the Patrick Baumann House of Basketball in Mies, Switzerland. Daly, who passed away in 2009, was inducted along with fellow coaches Tom Maher (Australia) and Ettore Messina (Italy) as well as player...