Born to Coach ; Nets' Leader Is a Success Story Years in the Writing
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › February 25, 2004
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EAST RUTHERFORD - The stack of spiral notebooks is packed away somewhere in Lawrence Frank's attic, a tightly worded, tightly bound prediction of what his future would hold.
They are the diaries of a teenage basketball junkie. At 13 years old, Frank spent hours watching videotapes of his favorite team, the New York Knicks, and took copious notes as he charted plays, diagrammed defenses, and logged impressions of how professional coaches such as Hubie Brown and Rick Pitino behaved down the final minutes of intensely competitive games.See the full content of this document
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Born to Coach ; Nets' Leader Is a Success Story Years in the Writing
In those days of solitude in his Teaneck bedroom, Frank saw himself in the flickering TV images. He would be a basketball coach. This he knew with absolute certainty.
"Oh yeah, I knew when I was 12 years old what I wanted to do," Frank said. "I wanted to coach."Fast-forward 20 years and meet Lawrence Frank, coach of the New Jersey Nets. At 33, Frank is the ...See the full content of this document
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