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March Madness: How LeBron James helped revitalize a spurned coach's career


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It was a simple gym inside a Jewish community center on the west side of Akron, Ohio; wood floor, a few baskets, in need of a face lift.

This was the late 1990s and this was a most unlikely spot for the confluence of basketball fortunes and figures that would converge there each Sunday night.

It led to the rebirth of one of the most successful mid-major coaching careers ever, the reshuffling of a city’s (and a state’s) high school basketball fortunes and, most notably, serve as the early development of a then-anonymous but soon globally known basketball prodigy.

For Keith Dambrot, that gym played a direct role in how he found himself on a bus Tuesday headed to his fourth NCAA Tournament, this time leading Duquesne to its first March Madness since 1977. The Dukes will play BYU on Thursday.

Seated on that same team bus was Dru Joyce III, now a 39-year-old assistant coach who back then was then a 13-year-old Akron kid that wandered into the comm...

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