For this Deon, prime time is overdue
May 21, 2009 8:43 AM
Deon Thomas was a Chicago hoops legend. He would become one of the University of Illinois' all-time basketball greats. And for the last decade-plus, he was a globe-trotting, championship-winning professional basketball star.
Now he's a JV coach in the Broward 'burbs.
Specifically, Thomas is the absurdly overqualified coach of the junior varsity team at the University School on the far west side of Fort Lauderdale.
And that's not even the ironic part. It's that Thomas would coach, period, considering how he's been burned by them: one coach who out of spite tried to destroy Thomas' college basketball career; another whose lack of faith derailed Thomas' NBA ambitions. His professional career was spent entirely in Europe.
browardpalmbeach.com
Now he's a JV coach in the Broward 'burbs.
Specifically, Thomas is the absurdly overqualified coach of the junior varsity team at the University School on the far west side of Fort Lauderdale.
And that's not even the ironic part. It's that Thomas would coach, period, considering how he's been burned by them: one coach who out of spite tried to destroy Thomas' college basketball career; another whose lack of faith derailed Thomas' NBA ambitions. His professional career was spent entirely in Europe.
browardpalmbeach.com
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