Former NBA competitors Penny Hardaway and Hubert Davis team up for St. Jude
UNC coach Hubert Davis, left, and Memphis coach Penny Hardaway, right, once played against each other in the NBA. Now, they’ll coach against each other at the St. Jude Tip Off Classic. (Chris Carlson, Mark Weber/AP Photo, The Daily Memphian file)
Nearly 40 years after first discussing the idea, Penny Hardaway and Hubert Davis are finally teaming up.
It just isn’t in the capacity either ever envisioned it being.
Hardaway, Memphis’ coach, was a coveted recruit out of Treadwell High in 1990. He was two graduating classes behind Davis, a highly touted prospect himself out of Virginia’s Lake Braddock Secondary School who now coaches North Carolina.
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The two, who had an admiration for each other’s game and have maintained a relationship throughout the years, had talked about potentially playing together at the college level during their recruitment process.
Of course, that partnership never came to fruition. ...
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Parth Upadhyaya
Parth Upadhyaya covers the Memphis Tigers men’s basketball team. A Raleigh, N.C., native and a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Media and Journalism, Upadhyaya is a longtime college hoops junkie. Prior to joining The Daily Memphian in 2022, he covered high school sports in western Pennsylvania for the Beaver County Times and Penn State football for the Centre Daily Times.
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