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YouTube Video: Why Bob Knight Did Not Respect UCLA’s John Wooden

After Bob Knight passed recently, a lot of stories have been told and videos posted about his life and times. 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.

There are some surprises though. 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.