While going through the New York Times this morning, I came across this article on coaching. The writer wonders about some of the guys who have strolled the sidelines, if they should be considered a genius?
What is amazing is that he talks about Kevin Loughery – if you recall, I blogged about Loughery a couple of days ago.
One day last month, I had an interesting conversation with Kevin Loughery on the subject of basketball brilliance. Loughery, the former coach of the New York Nets of the American Basketball Association, seemed to have a hoops I.Q. as high as Julius Erving’s Afro when Dr. J was leading his Nets to two titles in the 1970s.
Just before the 1976-77 season — the first season after the A.B.A. merged with the N.B.A. — the financially troubled Nets sold Erving to the Philadelphia 76ers. Without Erving, Loughery’s defending champions fell from the A.B.A. throne to the N.B.A. cellar with a 22-60 record.
“Suddenly,” Loughery said with a sad chuckle, “I got dumb overnight.”
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