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• ... that Cypress College basketball coach Don Johnson, who was an All-American at UCLA, developed two players with minimal experience who later played for his alma mater and set records in the NBA?

• Source: All-American at UCLA (Los Angeles Times) "Eaton and Swen Nater are Johnson’s legacy--two raw seven-footers, with little or no basketball credentials before Cypress, who spent two years with Johnson and went on to lucrative careers in the NBA." (Los Angeles Times) "But when the massive Eaton enters the game, UCLA will shift to a low-post offense and the Bruin fast break will slow to a snail's pace. Eaton is a 23-year-old former master auto mechanic who learned his basketball at Cypress (Calif.) Community College from the same coach—former UCLA backcourt star Don Johnson—who sent the Bruins Swen Nater." (Sports Illustrated) "Not only did both Nater and Eaton play in the NBA, each still holds league records." (Cypress College)

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