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When he was 12 years old, David Adelman was spread out on the bottom of the changing room of the empty Portland Trail Blazers. He asked his father, the Blazers coach Rick Adelman. Screamed for him. Nobody came.

He had been left alone in the intestine of the Memorial Coliseum because Adelman, as a teenager, practically lived in these halls and in these changing rooms. He was not only the youngest son of the coach for the region’s most popular basketball team, he was also a ball boy who has changed between the blazers and visiting teams in the past four years.

When he folded towels and filled the cooler with Gatorade, he listened to Pregame speeches of people like Jerry Sloan and George Karl. When he cleaned up the changing room, he studied the Tafard diagrams by Phil Jackson and Don Nelson. Two years earlier, in the 1991 Western Conference final, Lakers Guard Magic Johnson called him out of the changing room into the coach’s room and asked him to be on his knee to help him. At the request of the players, he received telephone numbers from women in the crowd, got hot dogs and filled cooler with beer. In the meantime, jokes, arguments and absorbed how adult men dealt with the joy of victory and the agony of defeat.

David Adelman grew up in the changing room. But now that the changing room changed with pain, his life would change and brought it into a way to where it is today: interim coaches of the Denver Nuggets.

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