John Thompson has passed away

[AkaDemiK]

Legendary human. R.I.P

 

[AFRAM GLORY]

RIP

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

Smfh, DC legend. RIP Coach.....

 

[NYC Rebel]

this is like losing my tennis coach, but possibly worse.
as this is the first person i ever saw that was not my own father.
I knew was put here to listen to and learn from as a black boy to a black man.
he was the first person, my own father took me to go see.
when i was taught basketball on a regulation goal at five years old.
I discovered Michael Jordan.
simply because mike was the first person i ever saw best john Thompson.
when i thought the hoyas were invincible.

this man, was the first man i learned.
was a leader that was not Malcolm or martin. Plus got to see him lead live in color and what it looked like.
I still remember his booming voice dominating the airwaves of a packed blue demon rabid crowd. Commanding Georgetown to trounce my precious blue demons and ask. why hot rod could never beat the hoyas like mike did.

I am hurt from this news and i prepared for this.
I just did not want it to be today.


REST IN POWER COACH.
REST IN POWER LEADER


art barr

I swear to God breh...coming up in that era, he just felt like a dad telling you the real.

I wonder how John Cheney is doing.

This is too much...

 

[TheNig]

RIP Big John.

 

[Noriega]

Black excellence

rooting for G-Town to return to its prominence, hopefully Ewing can get em there

 

[Captain Lurk]

I'm 41. My avi makes y'all think I'm white. Not so. I'm BK lefty.Growing up, he was THE black coach. Not Art Shell or anyone else. He was a real life Cliff Huxtable. Probably the only coach that I believe that really wanted to make a difference in the kids that he coached. Black kids that wouldn't have had a chance to go to Gtown anytime else. What he did for AI was legendary. If you are black and between the ages of 35-55 and this doesn't affect you it's okay. You obviously didn't follow ball.

 

[TheNig]

I remember growing up and feeling like all those other coaches just wanted those kids for their talent whereas Big John was out there tryna save these kids lives. You could just tell there was something different in the relationship with him and his players.

 

[superunknown23]

He was a father figure for so many black men...
RIP

 

[feelosofer]

That's one of the coaches of my childhood. My father called him a molder of men. One of the great basketball coaches there ever was.

May he Rest with the Kings.

 

[Buck Seventy]

RIP to Coach Thompson. Like mostly everyone else, I thought that Georgetown was an HBCU because of him. I had a Georgetown starter hat.The combination of blue and gray was dope.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

I swear to God breh...coming up in that era, he just felt like a dad telling you the real.

I wonder how John Cheney is doing.

This is too much...

Bruh, I met him at the Olympic team practice. Everyone treated him with the utmost respect but the Georgetown guys were damn near standing at attention like military guys. Yes sir, no sir, standing and giving undivided attention. He meant something to those guys and it’s so evident

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Right after Chadwick too. At least he lived a full live and helped many black men succeed in life.

Shout out to the gawd.

 

[NYC Rebel]

I'm 41. My avi makes y'all think I'm white. Not so. I'm BK lefty.Growing up, he was THE black coach. Not Art Shell or anyone else. He was a real life Cliff Huxtable. Probably the only coach that I believe that really wanted to make a difference in the kids that he coached. Black kids that wouldn't have had a chance to go to Gtown anytime else. What he did for AI was legendary. If you are black and between the ages of 35-55 and this doesn't affect you it's okay. You obviously didn't follow ball.

Breh....I wanted to post the same.

I don't think niqqas understand. This was our dad on TV. At a time, you didn't regularly get straight talk like that from a Black man on TV like that except from him.

 

[broller]

R.I.P. to a great father figure and coach.