Auburn’s Head Coach Has A Special Relationship With Their Team Manager
When Sam Cunningham was 12, he was fighting leukemia. He got a video message from Auburn men’s basketball head coach Bruce Pearl who told him “cancer picked the wrong ombré”. It was a message Sam would watch over and over in his darkest moments, through relapses and when he thought he wouldn’t make it.
CBS’s Steve Hartman first highlighted their story last year when as a freshman, and his friend Bruce invited Sam to be his assistant. Now a sophomore, he’s still on the job helping the Auburn Tigers on their quest to win the NCAA tournament.
But the thing Bruce wants more than that national championship, is for his friend Sam to stay healthy.