One of a few coaches in college hoops history with 700 victories, Knight was hired to reverse the course of a program with four consecutive losing seasons. Knight was fired from Indiana last year after years of controversial behavior. When asked by King about a controversy involving former player Neil Reed and shown a grainy video of the incident, Knight said that he had ''absolutely never'' choked a player. From the video, Knight said, one couldn't determine whether his upraised hand was on Reed's throat or just near it. You can't really tell where my hand is.
Nobody really pays any attention to it.
We cut right on with practice. You just see that that absolutely was not true. Number two, that I choked the kid. You're going to choke somebody, you better do it with both hands. That's how you choke somebody.