Nearly four decades before the New York Knicks took a big chance on Mike Brown, Tom Bennett was the first basketball figure in the United States to do the same. The Mesa Community College coach offered the relatively unknown high school player in Germany and son of an Air Force man a spot on his team.
Brown accepted and later credited Bennett as a mentor who “helped me mature into a man.” They remained close over the years, with Bennett tracking every move his former player made…
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