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Get our free newsletter Success! You're on the list. Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. Processing… In the 1980s, John Thompson Jr. and the Georgetown men’s basketball team left a lasting impression on Jesse Washington. Even though Washington lived more than 300 miles away from D.C., in Poughkeepsie, New York, the Hoyas were “a thousand percent” his team. “Wait, let’s just stop. They were every Black kid’s team,” Washington, a senior writer for the Undefeate...

After decades of silence, renowned Georgetown Hoyas basketball coach John Thompson decided to write his autobiography to show what went on behind the scenes of his extraordinary life. From becoming the first African American head coach to win an NCAA championship, which he did with the Hoyas in 1984, to directing the careers of NBA Hall of Fame centers like Patrick Ewing and Alonzo Mourning to taking a chance on a Virginia kid named Allen Iverson after he’d been in jail, no one has had a career quite like Coach Thompson.  Before his passing at the age of 78 last year, Thompson, who wa...