Most of all, Manning will be the guy in the horseshoe helmet who turned around a franchise and transformed a basketball-loving city into a football hotbed that hosted the Super Bowl.
Titled "Pucci: Sport," these family entertainments transform a stage into a basketball court or a band shell into a hockey rink.
In short, Stevens is a strong believer in "The Butler Way" – doing all the little things that transform a group of good basketball players into a great basketball team.
Basketball is at the center of Strother's newest exhibition at Marlborough Chelsea, which will be transformed into a basketball court for the occasion.
During the run through the tournament, Rao saw firsthand how a winning basketball program could transform a university and a city.
Like hundreds of other basketball assistants, Shrewsberry will hit the recruiting trail beginning Wednesday in search of the One: a player with the ability to transform a team.
In two seasons in Lubbock, after a year off following his firing at Indiana for a pattern of what the university called unacceptable behavior, Knight transformed a 9-19 team into a basketball and financial success.
In the ensuing years, Gonzaga (29-2, 16-0) helped transform college basketball, which seems as balanced now as ever.
Nike then went on to transform the basketball shoe market, ushering in the super-expensive variety of the shoe that is now standard equipment for not just the NBA player, but the weekend hack.
