Robert Montgomery Knight was an American men’s college basketball coach. Nicknamed “the General”, Knight won 902 NCAA Division I men’s basketball games, a record at the time of his retirement, and currently fifth all-time. Knight was the head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers from 1971 to 2000.
Did Bobby Knight play in the NBA?
He also played in two games for the New York Knicks in the National Basketball Association at the start of the 1954–55 NBA season. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Knight played on and off for the Harlem Globetrotters.
Is Bob Knight in the Hall of Fame?
Knight was elected and inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991. Previously, Knight had asked not to be renominated to the Hall of Fame, calling the voters’ rejection of him in 1987 a “slap in the face.”
He was a complex man and had a lengthy record of outbursts over the years. He was charged and later convicted for hitting a policeman in Puerto Rico, he headbutted Indiana player Sherron Wilkerson while screaming at him on the bench, he was accused of wrapping his hands around a player’s neck and he allegedly kicked his son.