George Ravilling Mit in 88, famous Nike Exec and basketball coach
George Raville
Nike Exec and coach
Dead in 88
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George Raville – The basketball coach at the beloved college and the CEO who played a pivotal role in the signature Michael Jordan To the brand – died. It was 88.
His family issued a statement on Tuesday on social media … saying that Raveling was surrounded by the family when he moved peacefully after a courageous battle with cancer.
His family said: “There are no words to capture what George means his entire family, friends, colleagues, former players and assistants – and the world.”
“It will be deeply missed, however, a halo, energy, divine existence, and immortal wisdom who live in all those that you touched and transformed.”
Raveling played university basketball in Villanova from 1957 to 1960 before becoming a main assistant coach in 1963.
He went to Maryland coach, Washington State, Iowa and USC before his retirement in 1994. He got a 10 -year -old Pak, he honors three times and also won the Nabc coach for this year.
He served as an assistant coach for the United States of America in the 1984 Olympics. He was recruited in the college basketball hall in 2013 and the Memorial Basketball Hall in Naismith in 2015.
After his retirement, Raveling became the director of international basketball marketing at Nike and was the person who urged Jordan to sign the brand.
“Sony (Fakkaru) He loves to take credit. But it was not really Sony, George Rafeel was in fact “Jordan He said In 2015.
“He was always trying to talk to me,” Nike should go, Nike should go. You have to try. “
Outside of sport, Raveling was a goalkeeper in Martin Luther KingA march in Washington in 1963. MLK asked his speech “I have a dream” and despite presenting it to millions of original written version, Rafeel donated to the mother.
He is currently at the National Museum of American -African History and Culture in Washington, DC
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