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Life Coach

By Tom Friend

Monday, October 13, 2008

The freckled kid wanted the Seattle SuperSonics' ball boy job, and he landed it because he happened to know the head coach: Dad. Right off, he learned the rules. No asking Michael Jordan for autographs. No talking after losses. No noise during the halftime speech. Basically, he was not to be seen, or heard, and it all went smoothly until the errant pass, the errant pass that explains his whole life. He was folding a towel on the baseline that night when Minnesota's J.R. Rider threw a brisk one ...

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