They talked twice a day without fail, including on the morning of Sept. Minardi frequently traveled to Kentucky during Pitino’s eight years coaching the Wildcats and convinced him to return to college at Louisville after his disappointing four seasons in Boston with the Celtics ended in early 2001. When Pitino coached the Knicks, Minardi was almost always behind the bench and ready afterward to take his close friend out for a drink or two to unwind.
They shared the same passions in life: Golf, horse racing and basketball, among them. They grew inseparable as he dated his future wife - Minardi’s older sister, Joanne. Dominic on Long Island when he met Minardi, a freshman. Pitino, the 68-year-old legendary basketball coach now at Iona College, was a senior in high school at St. When he walked in the room, the room lit up, and when he left the room, it got dimmer.” “Life was never quite as good without him. “We always say this, all of us, and we don’t mean to be melodramatic at all: Life has never been the same without him,” Rick Pitino told The Post in a phone interview, referring to his best friend and brother-in-law, a bond trader for Cantor Fitzgerald who was one of the thousands of victims in the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks. There will be sadness.īut most of all, there will be memories - fond memories shared of the memorable life that Billy Minardi led before, at the age of 46, he tragically died 20 years ago Saturday. ‘Treated me like a criminal’: Daughter of 9/11 vic says she was unfairly tossed from ceremony Mets alums back in Queens to help out 9/11 families
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