If You Haven’t Read This Coach K Story, You Should

Dean Smith and Mike Krzyzewski sharing a momentThe News & Observer’s Andrew Carter has a piece up on the relationship between Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski and the late Dean Smith who coached UNC for 19 years before Coach K came to Durham.

They had a complex relationship for a long time before they became close friends. This piece sort of traces that development.

There are a couple of points that we wanted to focus on here.

First, there is a bit in here from their first meeting, in the Big Four Tournament when Smith said this: “I’m worried about Duke. They’ve got a great young coach.”

It sounds a lot like Smith blowing smoke, doesn’t it? He would say stuff like that a lot: “Les Robinson is an…