Binding: Paperback
Description: NEW YORK Times Bestseller The definitive biography of college basketball's all - time winningest coach Mike Krzyzewski. Mike Krzyzewski known worldwide as Coach K is a five - time national champion at Duke the NCA a's all - time leader in victories with nearly 1,200, and the first man to lead Team US a to three Olympic basketball gold medals. Through unprecedented access to Krzyzewski's best friends closest advisers fiercest adversaries and generations of his players and assistants three - time New York Times bestselling author Ian O Connor takes you behind the Blue Devil curtain with a penetrating examination of the great but flawed leader as he closes out his iconic career. Krzyzewski built a staggering basketball empire that has endured for more than four decades placing him among the all - time titans of American sport and yet there has never been a defining portrait of the coach and his program. Until now. O Connor uses scores of interviews with those who know Krzyzewski best to deliver previously untold stories about the relationships that define the venerable Coach K including the one with his volcanic mentor Bob Knight that died a premature death. Krzyzewski was always driven by an inner rage fueled by his tough Chicago upbringing and by the blue - collar Polish - American parents who raised him to fight for a better life. With updated coverage of Coach K's stunning final season O Connor shows you sides of the man and his methods that will surprise even the most dedicated Duke fan. Basketball fans might feel as though they already know Coach K or Mike Krzyzewski the decades - long coach of the Duke Blue Devils who's set to retire after this season. In this insightful biography sportswriter O Connor captures the formative experiences and inner drive that catapulted the coach to icon status. Even the most die - hard fans will learn something. Washington Post
Title: Coach K The Rise And Reign Of Mike Krzyzewski
Author(s): O'connor Ian
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780063268579
Pages: 400 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 2/21/2023