This is probably my favorite story I’ve worked on at the Billings Gazette/406mtsports.com because it’s my favorite type of story: a feature that’s nominally about one thing but dives into much deeper territory.

This feature focuses on a Native American basketball team that lost its head coach months earlier in a boating accident. I wrote about the coach in the eyes of current players and coaches, and I tied in this death with other recent tragedies in the community of Lame Deer, Montana.

Amid tragedies, Lame Deer boys found bright light in memory of late coach