What he did: It hasn’t happened often — perhaps never — but Bob Reinhart made the jump from a high school basketball head coach to assistant NBA bench coach to head college coach. And he did it all in Atlanta.
Reinhart is not a Georgia native, but is from Dale, Ind., where great basketball players grow like corn. He was a star high school player along with Roger Kaiser, who would also make his name known among basketball circles in Georgia. While Kaiser went to Georgia Tech and became an All-American, Reinhart headed to the Kentucky Wesleyan College for one quarter before going to the University of Indiana in January 1958, where he played for the legendary Branch McCracken.