“I’ve witnessed things I’ve never witnessed in my lifetime here.” Rick Pitino thought he knew the meaning of March Madness. Then he landed in Greek basketball.
ATHENS, Greece—Rick Pitino led teams to the NCAA tournament in 21 separate seasons before he truly understood the meaning of March Madness. When he finally did, it was more than 4,000 miles from the nearest American college, in a smoke-filled, unheated Athens gym, surrounded by the most combustible basketball fans in Europe.
Having made a career in such unhinged environments as Louisville, the University of Kentucky, and the New York Knicks, Pitino thought he was prepared for what someone had warned him was “Kentucky on steroids.”...
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