Bob Bass, the NBA Executive of the Year with the San Antonio Spurs and again with the Charlotte Hornets, died last week. He was 89.

When you said something with which Bass, for nine seasons Charlotte’s general manager, disagreed, he wouldn’t rip you for it. He didn’t have to go that far.

I remember writing a column about the talents of point guard Kenny Anderson, the former New York City star whom I admired at Georgia Tech.

I ran into Bass in a Charlotte Coliseum hallway.

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