Former professional basketball coach and player George Karl joins Ron Barr to discuss his life, career, and recent induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. After playing for the San Antonio Spurs for five years, Karl started his coaching career as an assistant for the Spurs before becoming a head coach in the Continental Basketball Association in 1981. Three years later, he became one of the youngest NBA head coaches in history when he took over the Cleveland Cavaliers at age 33. By the end of his coaching career in 2016, Karl had coached nine different teams in three different leagues (CBA, NBA, Liga ACB), was named Coach of the Year three times, and won one championship in the FIBA Saporta Cup. He is one of nine coaches in NBA history to have won 1,000 NBA game and while he never won an NBA championship, Karl made the postseason 22 times with five different teams, including a trip to the 1996 NBA Finals with the Seattle SuperSonics.
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