An NBA Sharpshooter for All Seasons | Mike Glenn | Showtime Podcast with Lakers Legend Michael Cooper
Mike "Stinger" Glenn on his All-Star Basketball Camp for The Hearing Impaired and work on historic African American literature and MLK
Showtime Podcast with Michael Cooper - 5x NBA Lakers Champion
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An NBA Sharpshooter for All Seasons
Showtime Podcast with Lakers Legend Michael Cooper
Episode 33
Guest: Mike Glenn
Michael Cooper @ShowtimeCooper and Ari Temkin @arisports welcome former NBA sharpshooter Mike "Stinger" Glenn to discuss his 40 years working with hearing impaired kids at his basketball camp, what it was like playing with NBA wild boys Ray Williams and Micheal Ray Richardson, Dr. Martin Luther King's impact on Atlanta, and the current state of the NBA.
1:49
Mike Glenn has his stockbrokers license, and a degree in mathematics, so why did he chose to play basketball? His father was the basketball coach at the Georgia school for the deaf so Mike learned from him and the deaf how to play ball and do sign language.
2:43
Who were some of Mike Glenn's role models?
4:40
What was it like teaching basketball to the deaf/hearing impaired?
8:53
What was Mike Glenn's experience like when he first got to the NBA?
10:37
What was it like playing with NBA wild boys Ray Williams and Micheal Ray Richardson?
15:58
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16:57
Mike Glenn's time playing for the Atlanta Hawks with "The Human Highlight" Dominique Wilkins.
19:54
Coop's lightning round.
22:16
Dr. Martin Luther King's footprint across Atlanta.
30:06
What does Mike Glenn think of the current state of the NBA?
31:40
Mike Glenn's prediction for the NBA finals this season.
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