Former Indiana coaching great Bob Knight held a grudge against lovable UCLA legend John Wooden, exposing his tendency to be a jerk and a bully.
News of Bobby Knight’s death last week produced thousands of words, with descriptions ranging from sadness to admiration to disgust. Many even wrote that he was an “enigma,” which is a mysterious person, somebody difficult to understand. That was rationalizing. It was also incorrect.
By the time the sportswriter had a chance to get up and hit back a bit at Knight, or joke about it, or attempt to loosen up the room again, Knight was gone — out the back door — and Hammel’s night was much less festive. That’s what bullies do. For those who wish to maintain an image of Knight as merely a tough guy who thought he had to be unlikable and dictatorial to win, there is one facet of the man that says it all. He didn’t like John Wooden.
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