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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Michael O'Brien

West Side legend William “Wolf” Nelson retires after 33 seasons at Farragut

Farragut coach William Nelson looks on during the game against Hyde Park. (Kirsten Stickney/For the Sun-Times)

William “Wolf” Nelson will always be remembered as the young maestro that conducted the greatest show in the history of Chicago high school basketball when Kevin Garnett, Ronnie Fields and Farragut took the state by storm in 1995.

“It was crazy,” Nelson told the Sun-Times. “We had back-to-back Mr. Basketball’s and national attention. But most of my career I’ve spent coaching the players nobody else wanted.”

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