TAMPA, Fla. — Rick Barnes needed some advice in the years after his daughter, Carley, adopted two children from Uganda.
The Tennessee basketball coach called Cuonzo Martin.
"I said, 'Help me through this. Tell me what I need to know as a grandfather," Barnes said. "My daughter was having some issues that she wanted an answer to. Cuonzo's wife talked with my daughter. So I look at him in a whole different light.
"I know this, if I were an AD somewhere, he would be the first guy I would want to go get him because I know him, and I know where his heart is in terms of the game of basketball.