Second in a three-part series
Tom Meschery is comfortable conversing about the improvisational beauty of basketball and the giants of classical Russian literature. And he's a brilliant observer of both art forms.
Which may make him the only former first-round NBA draft pick — taken No. 7 by the Philadelphia Warriors in 1961 — to hold that distinction.
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