Legendary basketball coach John Wooden may have created his Pyramid of Success nearly 60 years ago, but many of his former players, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Walton, say it's still ...

John Wooden's pyramid stands test of timeJohn Wooden was a young high school teacher and coach in the 1930s when he first wrote his personal definition of success, searching for a way to assure ...

Wooden died just weeks before his 100th birthday in 2010, but his legacy — including his belief in “The Pyramid of Success” — continues to be felt in South Bend.

The messages shared in John Wooden's Pyramid of Success have always made a larger-than-life impact, but nowhere is the pyramid itself so larger than life than at the Hawthorne Athletic Xchange (HAX).

Though others urged him to copyright the pyramid, Wooden said in recent years he never had, prompting a friend to tell him he didn’t have a marketing bone in his body. “I hope not,” Wooden said.