Maravich Story

One of Will’s coaches played basketball for Lakeside in the late 70’s/early 80’s. He was familiar with our state championship as well, because Lakeside lost a disputed semifinal game to Douglass, who we had to wait an extra week to play while the protest was resolved. He also had an interesting story that another team dad had told him a few years ago…

This dad was shooting baskets by himself at Hammond Park in Sandy Springs, back in the early-mid 70’s. Up strode Pete Maravich, asking if he wanted to play one on one. What can you say? Pistol would diagram what he was going to do, and asked the guy to try and stop him…of course he couldn’t. Good story.

Busy week for Will…airport today to welcome home classmates, then lunch with the gang, then practice tonight. Doubleheader tomorrow night…against a team from Michigan. Thursday he’s going tubing/rafting in North Georgia. Friday he runs the Peachtree with a friend…I’ll be running separately with his friend’s dad.