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Former NBA and University of North Carolina star Rasheed Wallace directs his Jordan High team in Durham, N.C., last month. “Trying to teach them how to play this game the right way, not how they see it on TV,” Wallace said of his coaching philosophy. CHRIS SEWARD 2 mar 2020 - The Philadelphia Inquirer By Mike Jensen STAFF WRITER Rasheed Wallace carries the lessons learned playing for Bill Ellerbee at Simon Gratz into coaching high school basketball. “Trying to teach them how to play this game the right way, not how they see it on TV."     - Rasheed Wallace DURHAM, N.C. — Rasheed Wallace drove around to the front of the high school, jumped out of his Ford Bronco. “What’s good, old head?” Wallace said to the man stepping out of a car in the parking lot. “You all hungry?” A basketball game had just ended, a game Wallace had coached. Up in the top corner of the Charles E. Jordan High bleachers, across from the opposite bench — as out of the way as you could get and still be i...

18 Apr 2013 - The Philadelphia Inquirer By Marc Narducci - INQUIRER STAFF WRITER  Contact Marc Narducci at mnarducci@phillynews.com.  Follow @sjnard on Twitter. Rasheed Wallace, who was known on the national level since his freshman basketball season at Philadelphia’s Simon Gratz High, has retired for the second time in his NBA career. Slow to recover from a broken left foot, Wallace, 38, retired Wednesday from the New York Knicks. Wallace first retired after the 2010 NBA Finals following his appearance with the Boston Celtics, who lost in seven games to the Los Angeles Lakers. He returned to the NBA this season and appeared in 21 games for the Knicks. Wallace fractured the fifth metatarsal in his foot and underwent surgery on Feb. 28. He returned to action Monday but played just 3 minutes, 50 seconds in a loss to Charlotte. “Due to his injury, he will not be able to play for us during the playoffs,” Knicks coach Mike Woodson said in a statement. “We owe this season’s success ...

9 Feb 2025 - The Philadelphia Inquirer (South Jersey edition) By Brian Mahoney Associated Press The Sixers game Sunday at Milwaukee will be the longtime coach and broadcaster’s swan song. Hubie Brown had just taken his first college coaching job in 1968 and didn’t expect that he’d also be asked to teach. So, for his one year as an assistant at William & Mary, he taught two elective basketball courses. Brown, now 91 and set to work his final game as a broadcaster, never stopped teaching the sport in more than 55 years since. Only his audience grew from college students to players, coaches and TV viewers all over the world. “It’s the most remarkable thing and it’s not hyperbole: He has probably taught more people about the game of basketball than anybody that’s ever lived,” broadcasting partner Mike Breen said. Brown and Breen will work ABC’S telecast of Sunday’s game between the Sixers and Milwaukee, where Brown got his first NBA opportunity as an assistant coach with the Bucks team...