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Message: [QUOTE="Col. Bleep, post: 2523053, member: 1023"] Great educator...cared only about recruiting players regardless of background (see also Michael Graham and John Turner). Here's Steve Francis: “It was [I]almost [/I]Georgetown,” Francis said. “But I’ll never forget the conversation I had with John Thompson. He said, ‘Steve, we like you. We do. But I just had Allen Iverson. I can’t have you right after Allen. I just can’t have it, Steve. I’ll have a heart attack.’ “I respected it. He was right. He saw all those hangers-on who were around Allen all the time at Georgetown, and he knew they’d just be waiting for me to come through. So my junior year, when I was already 21 years old, I transferred to Maryland.” [URL]https://nypost.com/2018/03/08/how-ex-knicks-star-went-from-selling-crack-to-the-franchise/[/URL] [/QUOTE]