Sublime

Michael Murphy, a Stanford graduate who co-founded the Esalen Institute on the Big Sur coast in 1962.

Al Davis at Oakland (and by default, the great Sid Gillman under whom Al had served in San Diego with the Chargers);

Despite having coached the Danny Manning–led Kansas Jayhawks to the 1988 NCAA title, and despite having coached the Allen Iverson–led Philadelphia 76ers to the 2001 NBA Finals, the job Larry Brown was doing with the Pistons was his most remarkable work in a 32-year sideline career. Detroit’s roster featured zero future Hall of Famers, and zero play

Red Auerbach, walking down the tunnel toward the court with me, asked if I had any worries about my ability to score. “I wouldn’t say I had any worries, I think about it sometimes,” I said. He told me then he’d make a deal with me, that he’d never use statistics in negotiating one of my contracts, that the only thing he’d ever bring up was how I pl

John Wooden is a legend. The coach of UCLA’s

We won all those championships in part because we knew how to let other teams’ stars do their thing and at the same time take that style of play and convert it to our advantage. My battles with Wilt; our series against the great Bob Pettit; the games we played against “The Big O,” Oscar Robertson, one of the greatest players ever; and, of course, o

A great team is like a five-pointed star; each game, another player can be the reason for victory. That’s the way it was with the Boston Celtics of Russell’s era. He was surrounded by a talented group of teammates, but the team somehow belonged to him. In the end, Red Auerbach officially recognized his leadership by selecting him as the player-coac