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I was invited up here
to take part in the celebration of the
of uh... the Utah Stars
team that bill daniels of course
brought to Salt Lake
Brought it from Los Angeles, I believe
and um...
having this reunion, so
i was invited to come up here and
that's why i'm here.
Will I was
one of his coaches.
bill sharmin
had coached the ABA Stars to the championship
and then he left the team
and went
to the los angeles lakers too coach
and i played for Vince Boryla
in denver in the old NIBL thats the national industrial league.
and uh...
he was ten
under bill daniels but he was president he asked me to coach the team
and of course that one of our decision for me to make ten tripled much soured
at the time in any way
so i came down on
had the uh... honor dishonor approaching a championship team which was
difficult to follow bills from integrate court
and brought the team together from they won the championship planned uh...
but we had very good to you on our division usually the
uh... the two years and i was here and uh...
who has been delayed which
folded after that you may remember on mon build and so i was going to be with
us
forever working for bill is a great guy just a great guy
and became the main issues uh... just want to
this league is gonna full left for this year troll
the fear of other opportunities along the larger
in time which i didn
at that time utah state was interested in athletic director and i will know
more modern
so i went up to utah state is athletic director
and of course delete did fold and so on but
bill daniels was uh...
i think was the main man enough
andy in the a_b_a_ i mean you know he
israeli innovative type regard great businessman obviously
and uh...
exp start a scholarship app utah state prison my name
and give them a hundred found dollar-some
puttin my name is philip
still active is given
all i don't want it to them
since that time hundreds of athletes uh...
will load elan ocean scholarship upbeat upstate bill daniels did it
uh... one the other remember bob bill daniels number one he was
there's a great humanitarian but it was a very generous type of person
and great businessman lobbyists
soul peace opportunity
to do some more he could make money
he would capture of that
quickly enough
just like starting the television deland and uh... wyoming
and altman and
on on throughout his life you know but he was uh...
you just one of those great businessman that
became a bit in the trip
because of this error
ingenuity
these great business sense
visibility
and uh... one on this deal was uh...
you know having uh... professional basketball team
they brought the utah starch from
los angeles that's where they got to start name
as i love scientist i don't know if you knew that when they were naturally came
from and moved to salt lake
and uh...
people drive you didn't all fit would
would go over very big
but it did
and it took off
and bill sharman was a great
coach and uh...
they really hate to lose you like and see why
which is a great man but uh... sherman uh...
plate for southern cal in all of long to get back to that area and the lakers
came after a month
and that's why i made the move and then i have no
had to take his place which is a tough job
we had a great you know
salmo brady and
well it was very
two great go to driving
guy coming off the bench by ron ron boom i mean you can't beat that you know
glenn calm social tremendous shooter
uh... from outside and red robins were shipped out
babylon gaya
their slender guy but borders and great part of that
great part of that team
and uh... there are others uh...
pirro learn and mild but they were uh... it's just a great team to be associated
with
the rubric people as well as being great players you know
and it's nice to be associated with him
great players you know here
anselmo baby was just a great
go-to guy inside and scored a lot of point willie wires with
you'd just when a call time out of where you want the ball
uh... willie and tell mam
if you go to work one-on-one unfit to be speaking to a jumper often
made 'em all in all we were
with this one lawmaker aims
well lou one sixty games both years times collision
test
what will you have said it wants and it was uh...
team that
university utah course jack garner is up there and he was
he battled
them because i was going to take part in this crowd away
uh... but he was uh...
use against them coming here with
when they came
who are trying to put salt lake uh... and uh...
utah map really
and uh... bill daniels is a guy that did that
and bids for a lot was uh...
lemon and he was is always part of that and uh...
men's brillo was a
risen through the great bargain or businessman and you know and he
here's general manager and uh... you know what it took to have enough players
took
to women
brought that team together
between the two amanda
i had a great opportunity of coaching the team
not played prevention denver
nearly
early years and uh...
he chose me to take those films pledge was kind of a lucky dot
standing in the right place at the right time you know
now that's a great teams of cute upstate in college but
you know that they pay about three times and much salary and
pram lived five boys in uh... what control one hard for me to make the
decision to coach to you
yet
he
c old is
holdout will long-term remember is uh...
uh... they were
they were going to give quality promised him and he did
the whatever was that
that he promised me you know this sponsors on that
i mean bill daniels was on honorable guy i mean you can't beat it
and he made sure everybody was paid every cent that they were promised
that he prob
you know you can do
not done that but he got it
best just to kind of guy he was you know
and uh...
who went whatever it had to do with the team members prolonged
carried out whatever you wanna do you know
and uh...
they're both great people
and allowed them bowl from any and all of this
emigrate to me and my family and all
mention because what marriage or was
was one of them man
people in the head office and you know what you
they end up getting married him on
like them
that grade just great great people i love them
his act
bill daniels
well they made him successful
bill daniels was uh...
always working to make
people
that work for him or had his bill missus
he made them
known is that it paid them well and he
he made sure that uh... he kept good people
if he had good people he found a way to keep them running his business
i forget all the names but that
i'm sure he helped thousands and thousands of people
with all of his business tribesmen everything that he dared to rebuild an
old clothes books
she was a genius in terms of public relations to rules
and he knew what to say and how to say a
what the problems and we all lived up to everything he promised and uh...
uh... admired him
i've just two months ago very much for that
keeping his promise
and for those season ticket holders
that he had
when the one going to be a team
he made sure they all got their money back
how many people would do that
but he did at his build and it's
if you just told that story that told a lot about
him conductors uh...
is dealing with people but there's also his honesty
and bill daniels was that you know
he kept his word
and if i could save anything
about him that stood out might be hard to pick up that we have so many great
things about him but
so videos kept his word
he said something to you
you could take it to the bank
if he would make sure that
that was done
you know how many
and i don't
i don't know a lot of people are in business for the millions on
uh... mary would
would do that
we don't have to do that
whatever but p
he may have been made a promise to pursue the occurred about
and uh...
so that made him to be
than mine
won the greatest people
that's been around this area you know
i love my mobile phone
you'll never forget him of course
but i have my data stream of brown eighty two years old and
and the flow bureau much he should never be forgotten
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