In his session with the media today ahead of tomorrow’s game against Austin Peay, John Calipari addressed the quote from Bobby Knight that has been swirling around the collective sports consciousness since last night.
No surprise here, but Calipari addressed the remarks quickly without trying to pick a fight, then requested that the subject of conversation return to basketball:
“I’m a big fan, I respect (Bob Knight) as a basketball coach, always have … don’t agree with what he said but it doesn’t change how I feel about him.”
Calipari also commented that he had visited Lubbock, Texas to watch Knight practice with his team while he was still active, and Knight even helped him improve the Dribble-Drive.
I can’t imagine that this will be the last time Cal is about Bobby Knight’s comment, but I also can’t imagine that he’s going to say much more than this, so I consider this closed.
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Calipari was interviewed on an Indianapolis radio station this afternoon and I thought handled it quite nicely. Credit to him for accepting the interview, and credit to the radio guys for giving him the opportunity to defend himself, in the same city where Knight’s comments were made.
Link to audio: http://www.1070thefan.com/kravitzandeddie/podcast.aspx
If Knight were in todays game and did the things he’s is infamous for HE would be the one not allowed to coach anymore. People think that if you work for ESPN you must be one of the nice guys but that is not the case. Imagine ESPN covering a coach doing what he did to players, throwing chairs in the middle of games, kicking balls into the stands. He would be gone even if he graduated 95% of his players. Knight is ESPNs basketball Lou Holtz, he has done enough for people to remeber his name but nobody cares what he has to say. That and his history with UK is reason for this. just saying
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