Meet The Many Faces of Rick Carlisle: A person who is both a blueblood and a grinder, a coach who is both a micro-manager and a let-‘er-fly guy, a personality who is both a disciple of Dale Carnegie and of...  the Grateful Dead?

We marry some little-known tales from Richard Preston Carlisle’s past with much of what he said at Wednesday’s introductory press conference to attempt to paint a portrait of the present and future with the Dallas Mavericks’ new head coach: