(FILES) In this May 23, 2001 file photo, Dean Smith (L), the legendary, former basketball coach at Universeity of North Carolina, stands next to Philadelphia 76ers head coach Larry Brown (R), who was named the NBA Head Coach of the Year in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dean Smith, a US college basketball coaching legend who mentored Michael Jordan and dozens of other NBA stars, has died at 83, his family announced on February 8, 2015. Smith, who guided the 1976 US Olympic team to gold at Montreal, died in Chapel Hill, the home city of his Tar Heel teams that became iconic in American college basketball during his run as coach at the school from 1961 to 1997. Smith coached the Tar Heels to US national championships in 1982 and 1993 and 11 trips to the "Final Four" of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament. Jordan, who won six NBA crowns for the Chicago Bulls in the 1990s, was on Smith's 1982 college championship squad and said Smith had a major impact upon him on and off the court. AFP PHOTO/ TOM MIHALEK / FILESTOM MIHALEK/AFP/Getty Images ( 537566731 )