Sad news in the basketball world. The Guru of the Triangle offense passed away on Wednesday. He was 96.
“Basketball and teaching was his calling.”
– Phil Jackson on Tex Winter
Tex once famously asked beseechingly why, “If an English teacher takes a student home for dinner, he’s a humanitarian. If a basketball coach does, he’s a crook.”
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