{"id":1604707,"date":"2022-03-09T17:04:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T22:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1604707"},"modified":"2022-03-09T17:04:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T22:04:31","slug":"heres-to-never-forgetting-tonight-when-coach-k-was-almost-fired-at-the-1983-acc-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1604707","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Here&#8217;s to never forgetting tonight&#8217;: When Coach K was almost fired at the 1983 ACC Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/here-s-to-never-forgetting-tonight-when-coach-k-was-almost-fired-at-the-1983-acc-tournament\/20178877\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/duke\/2022\/03\/09\/20178885\/old-coach-k-DMID1-5u5l23atk-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"Coach K early years\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Mike Krzyzewski&#8217;s five national titles and 15 ACC Tournament titles at Duke almost never happened.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first three years were pretty close to disastrous,&#8221; said Krzyzewski&#8217;s friend and college basketball writer John Feinstein. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/here-s-to-never-forgetting-tonight-when-coach-k-was-almost-fired-at-the-1983-acc-tournament\/20178877\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/here-s-to-never-forgetting-tonight-when-coach-k-was-almost-fired-at-the-1983-acc-tournament\/20178877\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"'Here's to never forgetting tonight': When Coach K was almost fired at the 1983 ACC Tournament\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Krzyzewski&#8217;s five national titles and 15 ACC Tournament titles at Duke almost never happened. &#8220;The first three years were pretty close to disastrous,&#8221; said&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1604707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1604707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1604707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1604707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1604707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}