The most interesting man on the Sixers bench played pro ball until he was 46.
Twenty-five years after he left the housing projects of the Bronx to chase his teenage hoop dreams at a Texas junior college, Fab Flournoy stood amid the grandeur of Buckingham Palace and smiled as Prince William pinned a medal to his chest honoring him as a Member of the Order of the British Empire.Advertisement
“He’s a legend over there,” Nurse said. “He really embodied the guy that comes over and becomes really entrenched in the community, becomes a bit of an icon, not only for the playing part but for all that he put back into it.”In order to take the coaching job with the Raptors, Flournoy would have to retire. . .as a player.“We were all thinking he’d retire at 31 or 32,” said Paul Blake, the managing director of the Newcastle Eagles, who elevated Flournoy to player-coach back in 2002.
“In my situation, there was one way out. To put it quite simply, that’s the way I’m going. No other thought than that. Step by step. And then one thing led me to another, to another, to another.” When Flournoy ended up back in the Bronx after graduating from McNeese State in 1996, he couldn’t help but think that life had led him in a circle that he would not escape. Then came a phone call from a 29-year-old coach from Iowa whom he had met on an all-star barnstorming tour.The absurdity of Joel Embiid is back, and the Sixers matter againFlournoy quickly established himself as one of the BBL’s most lasting stars.
Within five years, Forrester was on Flournoy’s bench with Flournoy was living in Forrester’s house. Within 10, Forrester was swearing Flournoy in as a British citizen and Flournoy was godfather to Forrester’s kids.
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