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Day stays involved with game

Coaching was not in Todd Day's plans when he started coaching his son's AAU team in 2009.

Day was only a couple of years removed from his playing career -- which featured a 15-year professional adventure with 483 games for five NBA teams -- but Todd Jr. wasn't physically ready for some of Memphis' premier travel programs.

So Day, the all-time leading men's scorer at the University of Arkansas, started a team of his own, naming it the Hogs -- because he was going to represent his alma mater, even in Tigers territory.

Little did he know that he'd still be coaching more than 12 years later, now in his sixth season at the helm of Philander Smith's men's basketball team.