Dick Davey: A Basketball Life Richly Led

By Chuck Hildebrand

"Dick Davey: A Basketball Life Richly Led" is the story of the life and times of Dick Davey, who discovered and developed two-time NBA Most Valuable Player Steve Nash, orchestrated the most memorable upset in NCAA tournament history, and gave his sport four uninterrupted decades of loyalty, integrity and passion. This book chronicles Davey's upbringing in the small California town of Ceres, his early years as a high school coach, and his 30 years of service to Santa Clara before his retirement in 2007. After becoming head coach in 1992, he led Santa Clara to a 64-61 shocker over Arizona in the first round of the 1993 NCAA tournament - the first of three in which the Broncos participated in Davey's first four seasons. He was involved in more than 600 victories as a coach, and remains revered by virtually all of his former players. The driving forces in Davey's career are outlined, as is the ordeal of his daughter-in-law, who was stricken by a near-fatal brain injury in 2004.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1419676660
• ISBN13: 9781419676666
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"