A Tribe Called Quest's Phife Dawg has bounced back from kidney disease to become an assistant high school basketball coach and recruiter... on both coasts! (He also has a new production company and record label.) According to a SLAM article, Phife will "assist with player relations, running practices, and in-game situations like substitutions and recognizing the hot-hand."
“I’m not turning my back on my love for beats and lyrics,” Phife says in the article. “That’s the reason I’m getting this opportunity to coach and recruit. I want to touch lives through basketball as I did with music.”
Not only is it great to find out that Phife is healthy and doing well, but it's fun to read all the great puns, mostly from the commenters:
- "Can He Coach It?"
- "His starting five will be Brown, Yellow, Puerto Rican and Haitian…"
- "You also know Phife will set an example keep his players healthy and in game shape, as evidenced by his ability to hit it from the back and not catch a hernia."
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