Monday, February 09, 2015

The Myth of Dean Smith Lives on

By Nicholas Stix

He was a political liberal, of course.

At Countenance.
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David In TN said...

I remember Dean Smith's first black player, Charley Scott, who was a sophomore in 1967-68. Scott was from Harlem and got a scholarship to a private school in North Carolina. Dean Smith and UNC decided Scott would be ideal as their first Negro athlete.

Scott, like many of the First Black Players, had a middle class veneer, and was somewhat different from the current UNC black athletes involved in the recent "academic" scandal. He's had several corporate jobs post-basketball.

Monday, February 9, 2015 at 9:33:00 AM EST

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