{"id":1610242,"date":"2022-03-16T08:37:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T12:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1610242"},"modified":"2022-03-16T08:37:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T12:37:03","slug":"remembering-coach-ks-first-season-at-duke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1610242","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Coach K&#8217;s first season at Duke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/remembering-coach-k-s-first-season-at-duke\/20187179\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/colleges\/duke\/2020\/03\/15\/19013405\/76722-coach_k_from_the_vault-DMID1-5m6amvqsy-80x60.jpg\" alt=\"SportsXtra from the vault: Coach K hired as new Duke basketball coach\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>On March 18, 1980, Duke director of athletics Tom Butters took a chance and hired a little-known 33-year-old coach from Army named Mike Krzyzewski to lead its basketball program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you go back and read the columns, people were like, &#8216;Who is this guy? We can&#8217;t even pronounce his name,'&#8221; said college basketball writer John Feinstein. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/remembering-coach-k-s-first-season-at-duke\/20187179\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/remembering-coach-k-s-first-season-at-duke\/20187179\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Remembering Coach K&#039;s first season at Duke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 18, 1980, Duke director of athletics Tom Butters took a chance and hired a little-known 33-year-old coach from Army named Mike Krzyzewski to lead&#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-1610242","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\/1610242","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=1610242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1610242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1610242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1610242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}