It's just a fluff piece from Phil's hometown paper the Rocky Mount Telegram.He evidently came home for the dedication of MLK park.You can listen here.
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here.You may notice that they misspelled the reporter's name in the byline and that their headline writer is really lame too
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Nothing could be finer than Ford in Carolina
By Jessis H. Nunery
Rocky Mount Telegram
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
For years, it seemed as if Phil Ford would never leave home. The Rocky Mount native played high school basketball for Rocky Mount High, then parlayed those skills into a basketball scholarship at the University of North Carolina.
More than 2,000 points later, he became the Tar Heels' career leading scorer, left home, and enjoyed a seven-year NBA career. But Ford always comes home. He found himself back in Chapel Hill, where he spent 12 seasons as an assistant coach under Dean Smith and Bill Guthridge.
When NBA coaching legend and former Tar Heel Larry Brown offered Ford an assistant coaching position in 2004 with the Detroit Pistons, he left for three years. The hiatus took him to New York for two seasons, where he was an assistant with the Knicks. But Ford never stays away from the Tar Heel state or his hometown for long.
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