Jaden Thompson Bob Knight, the Hall of Fame Division I basketball coach featured in several films and portrayed in “A Season on the Brink,” has died.
He was 83. Knight was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1991 and was known for a successful yet controversial career coaching the Indiana Hoosiers from 1971 to 2000.
He was the sixth winningest coach in the history of men’s Division I basketball, but he was famous for his frequent outbursts of anger and volatility on the court.
He was once accused of choking player Neil Reed during a practice, and of throwing a chair during a Purdue game. He lost his coaching job at Indiana in 2000 due to his “pattern of unacceptable behavior,” per the university.
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