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John Thompson (basketball)

John Thompson (basketball)
John Thompson, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2020)

John Robert Thompson Jr. was an American college basketball coach for the Georgetown Hoyas men's team. He became the first African-American head coach to win a major collegiate championship in basketball when he led the Hoyas to the NCAA Division I national championship in 1984. Thompson was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.

2 September 1941

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