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At home, Donnie Tyndall happy to be back on sidelines as Grand Rapids Drive head coach

(Photo: Mark Zaleski, Associated Press)

If you were playing basketball on a recent summer Sunday evening in Grand Rapids, you may have matched up with him.

He was the older guy, pushing 50, and he’s all right with the fact that he couldn’t get on the court unless he called “game” and got a team together. No one was picking him up.

But that’s OK with Donnie Tyndall. He’s just happy to be home again on the basketball court.

“I tried to hoop for about an hour, I go back there and reminisce,” Tyndall said of his evening with high school and college kids at Martin Luther King Jr.