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conversation that included the news that the Bruins had just lost the freshman coach. Wooden offered Cunningham the job before the end of the meal. A high school junior varsity coach in Ohio tried to land what had suddenly become an unusually attractive role, in the program coming off back-to-back national championships, on the team
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Scott Howard-Cooper (Kingdom on Fire: Kareem, Wooden, Walton, and the Turbulent Days of the UCLA Basketball Dynasty)
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And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.” Wooden shrugged. “You want to learn about basketball, read Benjamin Franklin.” His new Bruins were somewhere between stunned and confused at the introduction to actual UCLA basketball. If you do not pull your socks on tightly, Wooden went on, finally getting to
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Scott Howard-Cooper (Kingdom on Fire: Kareem, Wooden, Walton, and the Turbulent Days of the UCLA Basketball Dynasty)