Dan Hurley: From a bingo hall to coach of the Los Angeles Lakers?
The White Eagle Bingo Hall in Jersey City, New Jersey, was a basketball gym only because someone pegged a couple of hoops on either end (one famously 2 inches higher than regulation). It had more in common with the 1890s YMCA where James Naismith first brought out some peach baskets than gleaming Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles.