Nicky Cassano, who is 24 and looks no older, stuffs an off-white blanket (always the same one due to its “aerodynamical soundness”) under his white T-shirt, clips on a small microphone, moves his eyeglasses to the end of his nose, and miraculously transforms himself into a middle-aged, pot-bellied, overcaffeinated recreation-league basketball coach.
Many have endured/enjoyed some version of this guy that Cassano frequently calls “Coach Al”—old-school to the breadth and depth of his substantial gut, never met a coaching cliché he hasn’t adopted as gospel—and Cassano has given him viral life in hundreds of videos that have turned the Nyack (N.Y.) High product into a social media phenomenon known to his millions of followers as Nicky Cass.
