If you don’t know the history, UCLA had a notorious booster named Sam Gilbert who was “helping” with recruiting. Then there’s this one, where Knight explains his disdain for legendary UCLA coach John Wooden, and he has a real argument. There are some about his experiences with Michael Jordan on the 1984 Olympic team, for instance, and also about his advice to Portland to draft him (a Portland official said they needed a big man and Knight told them to just play Jordan at center, because he was that good. Some if is the obvious stuff - the chair toss, the LSU fan, Steve Alford walking home from the airport, the insistence on absolute discipline in his players despite a desvastating inability to apply any comparable discipline to his own life. After Bob Knight passed recently, a lot of stories have been told and videos posted about his life and times.
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