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We were a close-knit family. I will never forget it. He appreciated [how] my teams played hard. It was a slugfest when we come up here. The U of M should do more to let the world know this as well. We became good parents and good fathers from some of the things we learned from you. November 4, November 3, Powered by. Totals Bold indicates league leader. Nonetheless, we can present Triple-Doubles since when rebounds became an official statistic. A small number may yet be unaccounted for but we're confident in the completeness of the list.

Advanced Bold indicates league leader. Multiply by 2. Playoffs Series. Appearances on Leaderboards, Awards, and Honors. More Haskins Pages. Full Site Menu Return to Top. In the News : L. James , K. Durant , J. Embiid , J. Harden , S. Curry , L. All-Time Greats : E. Hayes , J. Stockton , H. Olajuwon , W. It symbolized the perfect crossroads of who Clem Haskins was and who he is. Here, at the end of a small, gravel driveway, sits the plot of land where his parents' home once stood.

It has since burned down, but Haskins keeps the land cleared and has a small vegetable garden there. Every third weekend in July, the extended family gathers for a reunion on the spot. The "Haskins on the Hill" reunion was the children's idea, a way to preserve the family memories and stories, a wish made all the more poignant after family matriarch, Lucy Haskins, died in A short ride down the road is a small two-story house.

Haskins is fixing it up for visiting family. It used to be part of the Wayne Farm, a place where Haskins spent much of his boyhood. He helped George Wayne milk cows and fix the porch, and he planted the saplings that became the trees that now tower over the house with Wayne's wife, Bessie.

He vowed as a kid that someday he'd buy Wayne's farm. In , he made good on his promise. It was the first piece of property Haskins bought, and he expanded it to the acres that surround his family's original plot on all sides.

It's a quiet, simple life. He and his wife, Yevette, are the only workers on the farm. They tend to the heads of cattle. December to March is no longer the heart of the basketball season. Instead, it is calving season, and early each morning and again at night, Haskins checks his cattle to make sure there's no trouble that would require a call to the local vet. He drives the tractors to plow the fields and bale the hay. The methods have changed -- as a kid, Haskins worked a mule-driven plow and hand-milked cows -- but this is the same thing Haskins did as a kid, the one thing other than basketball he knows really well.

When Haskins' old high school coach, Billy B. Smith, still a spry year-old, explains why Haskins came back -- "It's in his blood," he said, snatching a handful of dry hay and dirt -- it's a powerful statement, not at all corny. Haskins speaks about the land much like Scarlett O'Hara did and has found the same sort of rebirth in the dirt of Kentucky as the Southern belle secured in Georgia.

Coming back here always was the plan. Haskins said he wanted to coach 20 years, in part because it was a goal he set, but in the latter years more so because he wanted to earn a little more money to buy some more land. Here, the kids he palled around with when he became the first black student to integrate Taylor County High School, the ones who followed his playing career at nearby Western Kentucky, are the men and women he sees today. At the Creek Side Restaurant, he smiles warmly at the waitress, a former classmate, and laughs to the point of crying as he and buddies John Kessler and Barry Smith try to explain the origins of a local character's nickname -- Egg Money.

The county judge executive, Eddie Rogers, is a former high school teammate. The stockyard is run by his high school coach's family. Jimmy Wheeler, the guy who first taught him to play basketball in a barn, still lives here, too.

He chuckles when asked how long he's known Haskins, unable to remember a time the two weren't friends. Haskins, known as Clem the Gem in his playing days, is just another guy who pops into Orville's Restaurant between 5 a. He's a guy you see if you're looking to buy a bull or, if you're Jeannette or Sie Parrish, a guy you welcome warmly when he brings a visitor to check out your antique clocks collection.

I mean, he was a hero around here," said Richard Williams, one of Haskins' former high school teammates. Within a half hour, they were two rows deep, lining an empty piece of field on Haskins' property. It was time for Taylor County's annual Hay Field Day, an educational program done in conjunction with the University of Kentucky agricultural department.

Close to farmers showed up on a burning hot mid-July afternoon, then listened intently to tips about how to eradicate weeds from their fields. Later, they took spins on the shiny pieces of equipment local dealers brought in for demonstration. They wore blue jeans and overalls, suspenders and baseball caps. Some brought their children; everyone stayed for the free rib eye dinner. Haskins moved comfortably among the farmers, slapping backs and telling stories. He talked with them about farming problems and bulls.

That's a long time," he said. I started playing basketball when I was 11 years old. Anyone who does something that long and then says they don't miss it is lying. You get set in a routine as much as anything. I was used to going to practice, to getting ready for games. That routine is a comfort, and when you don't have it, depression can set in, all those empty hours.

But farming filled my void. I have something to do every day, every hour if I want to. This is who I am, and I'm very happy with who I am. With that, Haskins smiled and turned around. The local John Deere and Massey Ferguson tractor dealers were showing off their latest equipment; the rib eyes were cooking up on the grill. Skip to main content Skip to navigation. O'Neil: Clem Haskins so far removed from Minnesota scandal. Minnesota Golden Gophers.