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EducatedBet…GoodBye To A Great Man!

Will Robinson, the first black basketball coach at a Division I school and a Detroit Pistons scout who discovered Joe Dumars and Dennis Rodman, died Monday. He was 96.

Robinson died at a Detroit hospital, Pistons spokesman Matt Dobek said. Robinson had been sick for 15 months and staying in a nursing home for more than a year, Dobek said. Robinson broke a racial barrier in the 1970s when he coached Illinois State Redbirds. He joined the Pistons as a scout in 1976, and the additions of Dumars and Rodman were keys to Detroit’s 1989 and 1990 NBA championships.

Robinson scouted for the Pistons for 28 years and scouted part-time for the NFL’s Detroit Lions for 22 years. Midway through the 2003-04 season, en route to their third title, the Pistons renamed their locker room the “Will Robinson Locker Room of Champions.” I am not gonna lie to you I have no idea who this guy is but it seems to me that he was a legend in Detroit. He did so many things for that cities sports teams and helped them win numerous NBA titles that his death will be mourned for some time. You can consider him the Jackie Robinson of coaches.

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