Alum Wes Unseld Jr. might come from NBA royalty, but he earned every inch of a career that has taken him to the professional head coaching ranks. "Over the years, I served food in the press room, cleaned up piles of trash, washed the players’ cars, dealt with piles of dirty laundry, made food runs," he says. "As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to understand that performing those menial tasks allowed me to learn the business of basketball, from the salary cap to how all the marketing plays into it, the corporate sales, the season tickets, all these things, and you realize there’s so many layers that go into making this thing work.” / Johns Hopkins Magazine