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Playing for Knight: My Six Seasons with Coach Knight
by
Steve Alford
All-American basketball guard Alford tells the inside story on playing for the brilliant but volatile Indiana coach Bob Knight as the star guard for the Hoosiers, winners of the 1987 NCAA Championship.
Paperback, 304 pages
Published
December 15th 1990
by Simon & Schuster
(first published 1989)
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A couple bucks in a Borders clearance bin and an interesting read. You get a little different perspective on some of Knight's shenanigans, but shenanigans they remain. The fact that Alford came through the experience and reflected on the positives he learned probably says more about Steve Alford than it does Bob Knight. It was interesting to read his daydream at the end about his son playing for Knight at IU in 2010. I suppose then it seemed Knight was firmly ensconced and would retire with hono...more
I read this when I was a kid and wanted to be a pro basketball player. It was not that good of a book, even then.
Story from All-American Indiana guard, Steve Alford, about his years playing for the always interesting Coach Bobby Knight. Highs and lows are recounted from Indiana failing to make the NCAA Tournament to the 1984 Olympic Team to the Hoosiers winning the national title. Learned from this book that Coach Knight is certainly an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, wrapped in a mystery.
BEST sports book EVER!
It's been a long time since I read this. Like, seriously I think this was one of the first non-Hardy Boys books I read. I remember liking it though.
Great perspective from a player who won a championship with knight and later went on to become a very good coach.
I was into sports biographies in high school.
A great book if you want to learn about Coach Knight.
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