George Raveling, whose Basketball Hall of Fame coaching career concluded with an eight-season stint at USC, led Michael Jordan to sign with Nike and owned the typewritten copy of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream Speech,” has died at age 88, his family announced Tuesday.

“It is with deep sadness and unimaginable pain that we share the passing of our beloved `Coach,’ George Henry Raveling, who faced cancer with courage and grace,” his family said in a statement.

“He transitioned peacefully at 88, surrounded by family, as well as love, faith and sacred protection.”

Born June 27, 1935, in what his family described as a segregated hospital in Washington, Raveling began his playing career at St. Michael’s, a Catholic boarding school in Hoban Heights, Pennsylvania.

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