In the storied tradition of San Francisco basketball, no one was quite like Bob Drucker.

The former longtime St. Ignatius basketball coach who won eight league titles, two Central Coast Section championships and a NorCal crown died on Thanksgiving after suffering a heart attack in his Daly City home. He was 84.

“His contributions are legendary,” Bay Area sports writer Fred Baer said in an interview on Thursday. “He retired from coaching, and he still never left. He’s always continued to contribute to St. Ignatius athletics. … Bob was just an instrumental schoolmate and teammate.”

Drucker is an alumnus of St. Ignatius, graduating from the San Francisco school in 1958. He coached his first season in 1966 and won his first league championship a year after. During his 20-year run as coach, Drucker compiled a 394-150 record.

After stepping down from coaching in 1986, he remained at the school as a counselor and a teacher until 2007. He briefly returned to coaching in 2002 as an assistant coach on the 2002 St. Ignatius girls basketball team that won the CCS Division I title over league rival Archbishop Mitty.

Known as the “Wizard of Westlake,” Drucker had an ability to connect with his players, which was perhaps his best quality as a coach.

“He gave me some tough love when I needed it,” Theodore Joseph MacConaghy, one of Drucker’s former players, wrote in a Facebook post. “A life rich in grace and service to others.”

Though coaching basketball was where he made a name for himself, Drucker was also a talented writer. While in high school, he was the sports editor for the student newspaper Inside SI.

“He was a great athlete, but the thing people don’t really know about him was that he was a journalist,” Baer said.

Drucker is survived by his wife Kathy and his four children, Molly, Chrissy, Joe, and Katie.

Memorial services for Drucker are scheduled for 3 p.m. on Dec. 17 at St. Anne of the Sunset Catholic Church in San Francisco. A vigil will be held at 3 p.m. and a rosary will commence at 4:30 p.m. The funeral is scheduled to take place on Dec. 18 at noon.