Over a 42-year career, he also served in several different capacities with the New Orleans Jazz, Los Angeles Lakers, Milwaukee Bucks, Toronto Raptors and Cleveland Cavaliers, including scouting, coaching, and player personnel roles.
During his time in Denver, he initiated the "Fast Break for Life Tour,” which had NBA players visit annually with young people at Native American reservations throughout the country.
He added Mookie Blaylock, Steve Smith, Dikembe Mutombo, Craig Ehlo, Grant Long, and Christian Laettner as players and hired Hall of Fame coach Lenny Wilkens.
Players visited a variety of important historical, government, and cultural sites, including Ford's Theater in Washington DC, NORAD in Colorado Springs, the Black Cowboy Museum in Denver, Ground Zero in NYC just months after 9/11, and the Pentagon.
They traded Steve Smith for Isaiah Rider and Dikembe Mutombo for Theo Ratliff, Nazr Mohammed, Toni Kukoč and Pepe Sanchez.
While with Cleveland, the National Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in Washington, DC, honored him with the Hitchcock Humanitarian Award for his community service during his NBA career.