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Published · transcript-backedKareem Abdul-Jabbar: belief
2 Feb 2016 Conversations with Tyler Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Fighting Bruce Lee, Growing Up in Harlem, and Basketball (Live at Mason)
“I think that the reason that a whole lot of great coaches haven’t come out of UCLA is the guys aren’t interested in coaching.”
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- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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- 2 Feb 2016
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Wooden produced a lot of great basketball players at UCLA, obviously, but it would seem to me that not very many of those great players went on to be great coaches. Do you agree with that, and can you offer an explanation? I think that the reason that a whole lot of great coaches haven’t come out of UCLA is the guys aren’t interested in coaching. The only one I know of that went on to coach is Brad Holland who played with us in 1980. He ended up coaching at University of San Diego. None of the guys have had an interest in coaching. There’s not much there. Wooden produced too well-rounded of a person? [laughter]…
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