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“You just can’t read.”John Thompson (left) with Allen Iverson (right) during a Georgetown game in 1995.Georgetown University/Collegiate Images via Getty ImagesJackson helped John’s mother find him a reading specialist, and John gradually found his footing in the classroom. Because beneath the towering public image of the first Black coach to win a national championship was a man who cared deeply about —Sametta Wallace Jackson taught sixth grade at Harrison Elementary School in Washington. Other key concepts are the transfor… More than a legend, he was the voice in our ear everyday.”One of the most celebrated and polarizing figures in his sport, Thompson took over a moribund Georgetown program in the 1970s and molded it in his unique style into a perennial contender, culminating with a national championship team anchored by center Patrick Ewing in 1984.Georgetown reached two other title games with Thompson in charge and Ewing patrolling the paint, losing to Michael Jordan’s North Carolina team in 1982 and to Villanova in 1985.At 6-foot-10, with an ever-present white towel slung over his shoulder, Thompson literally and figuratively towered over the Hoyas for decades, becoming a patriarch of sorts after he quit coaching in 1999.One of his sons, John Thompson III, was hired as Georgetown’s coach in 2004. The boy was mortified.
He liked to say his father’s name is on Georgetown’s But Jackson is the foundation of why Thompson was decades ahead of his time in refusing to judge intelligence by SAT scores. Following graduation, he was a high school coach and athletic director at Fort Smith for 40 years. She is why he rope-a-doped a national media that largely demonized him and his team as stupid thugs.
During our conversations, I came to expect what might seem like contradictions, but actually was the ability to see and feel multitudes at the same time: A man who loved the word “m—–f—er,” but seldom used it in his book. No details were disclosed.“Our father was an inspiration to many and devoted his life to developing young people not simply on but, most importantly, off the basketball court. She is why, during hours and hours of conversations about I quickly noticed in my conversations with Thompson that he was always concerned with the impact his statements would have on other people.