What Isiah Thomas Learned From Bobby Knight (Video)

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Bob Knight, Isiah Thomas And "Sunt" [Sunt]
Published 12/17/2007 by Leitch at Deadspin
... : An old video of Isiah Thomas, while honoring former coach Bobby Knight, explaining what he learned from the coach. The main thing he learned? The word "sunt." ...

Create The Caption #133
Published 12/17/2007 by Awful Announcing- at Awful Announcing
... you funny enough to create a caption for this split screen from yesterday's Cowboys-Eagles game? Daily Links: Dan Dierdorf Gets Excited By Four Cheese Pizzas (KSK) Calton And Vin Diesel Are Breakdance Fighting! (Sports Kolache) Another College Basketball Blog Starts Up, Has Some Familiar Writers (35 Seconds) Phil Dawson Is Still A Magician (Sports by Brooks) Hilarious Video Of What Isiah Thomas Learned From Bobby Knight. What Is A Sunt? (The Big Lead) The Twelve Days Of NBA ...

From the Archives: Isiah Thomas' Spicy Award Acceptance
Published 12/17/2007 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
... I'm here to tell you that young Isiah Thomas was the kind of guy who could make a microphone seem dangerous. Here is the video, with the biggest TrueHoop language alert ever. ...

Would You Buy A Bag Of Popcorn From This Man?
Published 12/17/2007 by GC at Can't Stop The Bleeding
... Zeke working blue, video swiped from The Big Lead.

Tuesday’s Basically Top Five Blog Links
Published 12/18/2007 by Jamie Mottram at Mr. Irrelevant
... Top Five — Yahoo! editors are well-versed on the ’sphere by now, and we aren’t taping new episodes of Blog Show until 2008; at which time we’ll have an intern — this may be the last morning link dump for some time. Or maybe I won’t be able to stay away. We’ll see, but you’ve been warned. Saban to West Virginia!!1! Unfounded rumors are delicious, as are videos of disgruntled Mountaineers fans. Knight taught Isiah something. How to treat people, not how to coach. MDS goes insides ...

Isiah: Making Folks Uncomfortable Since 1982
Published 12/18/2007 by Tom Ziller at FanHouse
... The Big Lead has an incredible video from 1982 which you should definitely watch, but definitely not at work with the sound on. F-words, b-words, s-words. No, not that s-word. A different one -- one which takes a mob of predominately white Indiana University boosters yukking it up at ...

Texas Tech Saturday Morning Notes - Zeno Expected to Start Edition
Published 12/22/2007 by Seth C <info@doubletnation.com> at Double-T Nation: Front Page Posts
... (where I heard about it on the radio on Friday morning), via The Big Lead, of a video of a very young Isiah Thomas, um roasting Coach Knight in 1982. I'll let The Big Lead take it from here. As one of the commentors said on TBL, Isiah needs to know the definition of "quit while you're ahead". ...

New Year Links - Joakim Noah's Rap Album, Whiskey Power & Sean Taylor Numbers
Published 1/2/2008 by Truth About It at Truth About It - Washington Wizards Blog
... tell us about being on the other side of that incident, and about being a good sports fan in general. A good Ball Hype recap - Top 10 Sports Videos of 2007 Uh oh, Anthony Mason is slapping women in the club again. Happy holidays bitches! Hey, he was always a pretty good passing forward, guess those skills don't extend to the nightlife. It's only a matter of time until he's shaving huge jail-house tears in the side of his head. Isiah Thomas is one helluva speech giver. Some of his more ...

Bobby Knight Is Worse Than Cancer
Published 4/3/2008 by insomniac at Insomniac's Lounge
... goes to the time he spent with Bobby Knight while preparing for the 1984 olympics: "I remember my time with Bobby Knight and the Olympic team in 1984. That's what I think about a lot. I didn't think I could push through that. Had I quit then, I probably would have quit now. But I remember the punishment I put myself through then. 'C'mon, man. If I can handle that, I can do this.' " Tisdale is right. Sure, cancer can kick your ass. But it never calls you a "sunt". If Knight decides to return to coaching, perhaps he can use this anecdote on the ...