By Daniel Bates Tubby Smith is stepping down as head basketball coach at High Point University, the school announced. Smith’s son G.G., an assistant at High Point, will take over as head coach for the remainder of this season and next season. After another bout with COVID-19, Smith saw this as the right time to step away and accelerate the forthcoming change. “I feel blessed to have had an amazing career leading, coaching and teaching great young men at first-class institutions,” Tubby Smith said in a statement. “Working at my alma mater during this stage of my career has been a dream. I’m thr…