Honestly, I could sit here for hours and write a lot of great things about Chuck Daly, the former head basketball coach of the Detroit Pistons (where he won back to back championships in 1988-89 and 1989-90) and the head coach of the original men’s basketball Dream Team that played in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Daly passed away over the weekend after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Daly, as a Hall of Famer, obviously was a great coach. But, more than anything, he appeared by all accounts to be a good and decent man. That is the mark of someone who is a true champion. Daly was a champion at many different levels on the basketball court, but his greatest championship was being a championship-caliber man. Many of us will miss Daddy Rich.
ESPN:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4153982
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09130/969161-275.stm
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