In 1984, the US turned to Bob Knight to coach the Olympic men’s basketball team.
Knight had no patience with the USSR and was reportedly disappointed that the Soviets would boycott the LA Games, just as the US had boycotted the Moscow Games in 1980.
It was really too bad because he was loaded for bear.
He had three future Dream Teamers on his roster - Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing and Chris Mullin - and some other very good players in Sam Perkins, Wayman Tisdale and Alvin Robertson, among others (Duke’s Johnny Dawkins was an alternate).