Ron Pollack watched his father crunch numbers for years as a member of the 76ers' statistics crew and as a pro basketball employee since 1946.
Harvey Pollack was credited with coming up with the system of tracking rebounds, steals, turnovers, blocked shots and other statistics.
However, "the one number he never came up with was how many lives he touched," Ron Pollack said Friday afternoon at his father's funeral at Goldstein's Rosenberg's Raphael-Sacks on North Broad Street."
Those sentiments were echoed repeatedly at a gathering of about 200 to say goodbye to Pollack. Sixers Hall of Famer Julius Erving read a Rudyard Kipling poem over Pollack's casket, which was draped by an American flag and bordered by flowers.