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Tracing coach D'Antoni's roots

 
Mike D'Antoni was born 57 years ago in a solid little brick home in Mullens, West Virginia, which his grandfather built in 1925 and where his father Lewis still makes spaghetti and meat balls and homemade cherry pies. (link)

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