Legendary Georgetown men's basketball coach John Thompson died Monday, according to ESPN's Myron Medcalf.
He was 78.
No cause of death was made public. Thompson retired from Nike's Board of Directors in May, a position he had held since 1991.
A center drafted in the third round by the Boston Celtics in 1964, Thompson won two NBA championships during a brief two-year professional career before moving into coaching. He dominated at St. Anthony High School in Washington, D.C., from 1966-1972 before being hired at Georgetown at just 31 years old—a move that would stabilize the next three decades of Hoyas basketball.