This year’s lecturer was brought to Cambridge through a long-standing bond with Amaker.
“I’ve known Tommy since he played at Duke, and then our friendship was even more cemented. He recruited my son Chris to play at Duke,” Collins said. “I think Tommy embodies all the wonderful things I think teachers and coaches should have.”
Despite efforts by the Harvard coaching staff to attract students to the clinic, there did not appear to be more than a couple of non-coaches in the audience.
However, the event was well-received by those who did attend.
“Tommy’s a great coach. He broke everything down,” said John Viera, an assistant coach at Platt High School. “If you were a stranger to basketball, if you never even knew the game, you would come out with ten times more than you already knew.”
—Staff writer Dennis J. Zheng can be reached at dzheng12@college.harvard.edu.