Mr. Daly, who won four Ivy League championships with Penn and two NBA titles with the Detroit Pistons, and coached the Dream Team to an Olympic gold medal in 1992, died yesterday morning of pancreatic cancer at his home in Jupiter, Fla. He was 78.
Former Villanova coach Rollie Massimino, whom Mr. Daly hired as an assistant at Penn in 1971, said that the cancer had been diagnosed in February but that Mr. Daly kept up with basketball as well as he could, even drawing up a play for Wildcats coach Jay Wright to use in the NCAA Final Four.
"He really loved people," Massimino said yesterday. "He carried the posture of being someone very special. The last week and a half as he struggled, we used the word dignity. That's the word in my mind. He had such dignity. He carried himself that way until his death."
Former Villanova coach Rollie Massimino, whom Mr. Daly hired as an assistant at Penn in 1971, said that the cancer had been diagnosed in February but that Mr. Daly kept up with basketball as well as he could, even drawing up a play for Wildcats coach Jay Wright to use in the NCAA Final Four.
"He really loved people," Massimino said yesterday. "He carried the posture of being someone very special. The last week and a half as he struggled, we used the word dignity. That's the word in my mind. He had such dignity. He carried himself that way until his death."
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