LOS ANGELES (AP) -Former UCLA basketball coach and Hall of Famer John Wooden remains hospitalized with little information being released about his condition, although a recent visitor describes him as lucid but frail.
Former UCLA and Los Angeles Lakers star Jamaal Wilkes told The Associated Press on Friday that he visited Wooden in his hospital room twice this week and they chatted briefly.
Wilkes says Wooden recognized him and that the coach’s mind remains “sharp as a tack,” although he says the 99-year-old Wooden’s body is “very, very frail.”
In addition to his grown son and daughter and other family members, Wilkes says Wooden has had several visitors, including former UCLA star Bill Walton.
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