Dan Issel coached Jalen Rose for 34 games in 1994, and he can’t remember ever feeling the desire to hurl an inanimate object at the rookie guard.



Yet, nearly a quarter century later, as Issel, a Hall of Fame center and one of the greatest players in Nuggets history, sat in his Louisville, Ky., living room this fall, that urge took hold.



“I was watching ESPN, and Jalen Rose, who played for me when I was coaching in Denver, he named the top five players in the league that are under the age of 25, and Nikola Jokic wasn’t on that list. I love Jalen, but I wanted to throw something at the television.”



Bill Walton has a work and social calendar packed tighter than candy in a piñata. His globe-trotting role as a college basketball analyst keeps him in constant motion, but as he began searching for games he could attend to watch his son Luke coach the Lakers this season, he circled one date he had to be in the Staples...