Chucky Brown: He was raw as a player. He had game, but he knew more of the playground stuff. For example, I can remember one incident where Bobby Phills was on the low post and P came and set a screen for him when he had the ball. In the NBA, you don’t wanna do that. You wanna space the floor. Bobby told him, “Don’t do that. Don’t come set the screen down here. We wanna keep the space so I can do my work, and if somebody comes and double-teams, then I can get it out and now we’re moving around the perimeter.”
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Chucky Brown: He was raw as a player. He had game, but he knew more of the playground stuff. For example, I can remember one incident where Bobby Phills was on the low post and P came and set a screen for him when he had the ball. In the NBA, you don’t wanna do that. You wanna space the floor. Bobby told him, “Don’t do that. Don’t come set the screen down here. We wanna keep the space so I can do my work, and if somebody comes and double-teams, then I can get it out and now we’re moving around the perimeter.” Recasner: There’s a lot of connection between the hip-hop world and basketball. I would say 50 percent of the league back then was probably listening to his music in their pregame. I know I was. (If) you’re trying to get hyped for a game back in ’99, 2000, you’re listening to Master P.
Chris Haynes: Yale guard Trey Phills — son of the late Bobby Phills — has a workout scheduled with the Charlotte Hornets on Friday, the franchise that retired his father’s No. 13 jersey, his agent @kengestevenson tells Yahoo Sports.
Kerstie Phills’ warmth shines through in her short video introduction to FGCU fans. “I got into basketball ever since I was 6 years old,” says Phills, her voice and smile bright as she goes on to explain her family legacy, which some might already know. “My dad played in the NBA.”
“I love to live in his legacy,” Phills says, “and be the best player I can.” Bobby Phills, revered in his former NBA towns of Cleveland and Charlotte for the selfless person he was off the court and the player he willed himself into on the pine, died in a car crash Jan. 12, 2000, in Charlotte after speeding with teammate David Wesley and skidding into oncoming traffic. Phills, a 6-foot-5 guard who Michael Jordan famously called the toughest defender he’d ever faced, was 30. There were no other fatalities.
“I never got to know my dad,” said Kerstie, 20, a redshirt sophomore who transferred to FGCU in the summer of 2017 after a strong freshman season at Wagner University in Staten Island, New York. “I know that he worked very hard in his career in just getting to the NBA. My mom always tells me that I’m a reflection of my father. I play for him, every single game that I play.”
Bobby Phills’ retired No. 13 jersey has returned to Charlotte. The Hornets raised Phills’ jersey to the rafters at their downtown arena during a ceremony at halftime of Saturday night’s game against the Memphis Grizzlies. His widow, Kendall Phills, said: “I’m humbled and filled with unspeakable joy for all of you bringing Bobby’s jersey back home.”
