Tex Winter

About 25 years ago a 23-year-old coach at a North Dakota high school, hungry to learn more about the game, drove down to Kansas State to observe one of Tex Winter's practices. Winter was in the middle stages of a...

•Tex Winter, Houston Rocket coach, on UCLA's Bill Walton: "One of the reasons I left as University of Washington coach was that I knew what a great player he was going to be. I figured I'd have a better chance of...

•Tex Winter, Washington basketball coach, back from Fairbanks, Alaska, where the temperature fell to 50° below zero: "I don't think we'll be going back to Alaska. I've seen it. I believe it. I think I'll let it go at...