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The difficult legacy of Jim Boeheim’s life at Syracuse
Pete ThamelESPN3:30 p.m. ET7 Minutes Studying Wealthy Barnes/Getty Pictures SYRACUSE COACH Jim Boeheim by no means wished a farewell tour with rocking chairs, monogrammed whiskey bottles and tribute movies. The way it ended Wednesday was way more becoming: an ungainly press convention after dropping a lunchtime buzzer-beater in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC event city Boeheim had lengthy derided. All this uncommon, like Boeheim himself. A number of hours later, the varsity issued a press release that didn’t embody the phrase retirement. There have been no quotes from Boeheim, simply awkward platitudes from fits who appeared to hope their flowery prose may trump disagreeable realities: Jim Boeheim’s 47-year head teaching…