schedule in March allowed Mike D’Antoni to be in the building when his brother Dan coached Marshall University to the school’s first N.C.A.A. Mike D’Antoni’s Houston Rockets happened to be in Dallas on the same weekend that Dan’s Thundering Herd won the Conference USA championship game in nearby Frisco, Texas. “He rejoiced as much as I did,” Dan D’Antoni said. Dan D’Antoni reciprocated late Tuesday night with some remote cheerleading from a conference meeting in Florida as the Rockets produced the shock of the N.B.A. “I’ve been to the Western Conference finals a couple times,” Dan D’Antoni said in a phone interview.

Source: New York Times May 24, 2018 13:07 UTC