May 10, will forever be etched in OKC Thunder history as the day Nick Collison retired. Royce Young’s ESPN article released Thursday coinciding with social media blowing up. Colleagues, coaches and fans alike reacted in similar fashion.
Each recalled memories of the player and man who touched everyone he came in contact with. Collison exudes an everyman quality mixed in with a superman, Clark Kent kind of edge. That rare intangible that makes strangers feel as if they know him and intrinsically trust him. In the old days people referred to it as ‘salt of the earth’.