NY Times · Sep 19, 2022
Coach Leonard Hamilton: ‘The Worse the Program, the More I Became Interested’
Hamilton, the Florida State men’s basketball coach, was presented with the Joe Lapchick Character Award in New York last week.
Florida State men’s basketball Coach Leonard Hamilton during a game in 2018.Credit...Michael Reaves/Getty ImagesLeonard Hamilton was on the ninth floor of the stately New York Athletic Club with its million-dollar views over Central Park, accepting the Joe Lapchick Character Award at a luncheon on Friday. Outside, a chauffeur waited to whisk him across the Hudson River to a private plane that would deliver the Florida State men’s basketball coach back to Tallahassee, Fla.
It was quite the departure from his first visit to New York.
