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A coach spends his professional life searching for The One, knowing he may never find him, knowing he may not even be out there. But he keeps at it. He keeps probing. He spends hour after hour sitting on hard wooden bleachers. He burns up telephone lines. He drives through the night. He spends eternity on airplanes.
Then, one day, he sees him.
“And you never forget what it was like,” Jim Boeheim says.
For Boeheim, it was a cold Baltimore day in the winter of 2001, inside the gym at Towson Catholic High School. On one side of him sat Troy Weaver, then an assistant to Boeheim at Syracuse, now the assistant GM of the Oklahoma City Thunder. On the other was Dave Pietramala, the lacrosse coach at Johns Hopkins, there to watch one of his recruits play basketball.
A coach spends his professional life searching for The One, knowing he may never find him, knowing he may not even be out there. But he keeps at it. He keeps probing. He spends hour after hour sitting on hard wooden bleachers. He burns up telephone lines. He drives through the night. He spends eternity on airplanes.
Then, one day, he sees him.
“And you never forget what it was like,” Jim Boeheim says.
For Boeheim, it was a cold Baltimore day in the winter of 2001, inside the gym at Towson Catholic High School. On one side of him sat Troy Weaver, then an assistant to Boeheim at Syracuse, now the assistant GM of the Oklahoma City Thunder. On the other was Dave Pietramala, the lacrosse coach at Johns Hopkins, there to watch one of his recruits play basketball.
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Jim Boeheim and Carmelo Anthony
Early in the game, the player Boeheim was there to see, a junior named Carmelo Anthony, drilled a long 3-pointer, much to the delight of the home crowd. A few seconds later, he stole the inbounds pass; the gym filled with thunder. And then in a flash he was by his man, and he was to the basket, a two-handed slam that nearly knocked down the walls.
