Almost all of Kerr’s players, with a couple exceptions, followed the familiar U.S. pipeline of AAU to prep school to NCAA to pros.
You’ve heard about how the European model is supposedly so much better at developing basketball players with ball movement and defense and fundamentals and whatever other nonsense is out there.
There’s nothing like it in major team sports. Between our women and men’s teams, USA Basketball has swept gold at the last four Olympics. To compare, four different teams won the last five Olympic titles in hockey; six different nations won the last six FIFA World Cups; three different teams won the last five World Baseball Classics.
This subject prompted a phone call to Sonny Vaccaro, now 85 and always eager to discuss basketball. If you don’t recall, Vaccaro was the Nike executive who founded ABCD Camp, the longtime be-all, end-all of summer basketball exposure and recruiting. Vaccaro was the first to mold grassroots basketball with big sneaker corporation money, attracting, among many others, LeBron, Kobe, Tracy McGrady, Carmelo Anthony, Kevin Garnett, Jason Kidd and Derrick Rose.
IBA won’t reveal test results that DQ’d Imane Khelif, Lin Yu-ting at world championships: ‘Read between the lines’ “There was a stigma to doing it,” Vaccaro told The Post. “Because some people — specifically the NCAA — criticized.”
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