The Legends Club: Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and an Epic College Basketball Rivalry

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On March 18, 1980, the Duke basketball program announced the hiring of Mike Krzyzewski, the man who would restore glory to the team. The one problem: nobody knew who Krzyzewski was once. Nine days later, Jim Valvano was once hired by North Carolina State to be their new head coach. The hiring didn’t raise as many eyebrows, but the two new coaches had a identical goal: to united states North Carolina’s Dean Smith as the king of college basketball. And similar to that, essentially the most sensational competitive decade in history was once about to unfold. In the skillful hands of John Feinstein, The Legends Club captures an era in American sport and culture, documenting the inside view of a decade of absolutely unbelievable competition. Feinstein pulls back the curtain at the recruiting wars, the intensely personal competition that wasn’t all the time friendly, the enormous pressure and national stakes, and the battle for the very soul of college basketball.

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