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Fans, former players and coaching colleagues gathered Sunday to honor the late Dean Smith. The school held a public memorial service for the retired Hall of Famer in the campus arena bearing his name, drawing thousands of fans to pay their respects to the coach whose career made him not only the face of the university and a coaching innovator but also a civil-rights advocate. Not (just) basketball, the greatest coach.'' UNC coach Roy Williams, a former Smith assistant, and former players such as Brad Daugherty and Antawn Jamison were also scheduled to speak at the ceremony and share their memories of Smith - who died two weeks ago at age 83. ''He coached you to be a man for a lifetime.'' The service attracted former UNC players and coaches such as Larry Brown, Kenny Smith and J.R. Reid, as well as longtime Smith assistant and successor Bill Guthridge.
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