David was a special education student at Monterey High, a big lumbering(步态笨拙的) bear(急性子) who loved basketball with all his being, but lacked the coordination(协调) to play.
Instead, starting in high school and continuing some 40 years, he showed up at every game as “team manager,” taking care of the balls and towels, slapping players on the backs if they did well, and giving grief, like it or not, if they missed shots or made the team look bad. He took special umbrage at lazy defense. “You’ve got to box out! Even I can do that! Want me to teach you?” He said. They would pretend to ignore him, but win or lose, they’d at least try a little harder to box out.
More than anything — maybe even more than basketball — David loved hugs. I’m not sure David ever knew my name. He called me “Mrs. Coach.” At every game, home or away, he’d spot me in the stands and come clomping up(聚拢) the bleachers, parting the crowd like the Red Sea to get a hug. When David hugged you, you knew you’d been hugged.
Later, in the years the coach was battling cancer, David never said much, just did his job as always, diligently and well. He hated sweeping the gym floor. Sweeping was a janitor’s job, not the team manager’s, he said. But if he caught the coach sweeping, as he sometimes did, he’d grab the broom and finish the job without a word.
The morning of the coach’s memorial service, someone took photos of preparations in the gym. Bleachers(露天看台) were pulled out, chairs were set up to seat the crowd. A thousand paper cranes(鹤) folded by his students flew in a “V” from the goal. And there was David, sweeping the floor.
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