From the Duke perspective, I’ll be blunt: I had no idea what a prick Christian Laettner was. Yes I knew he was a prick and yes I knew he was reviled, in large part because I still remember my mother- a woman who doesn’t care much for college basketball,

No Tar Heel fan can hear the name Christian Laettner without getting a little sick in their mouth. Although he only sports a 5-6 record against the Heels, he played like a thorn in the side for any anti-Blue Devil. His credentials while at Duke were very

Christian Laettner hopes to return to the NBA as a coach. "Basketball is my passion," Laettner said. "It's one of the things in life I love the most. If you can't play anymore because you're too old and your knees kill, you've got to do something to get

Patience has never come as easily to Christian Laettner as, say, intensity. And although the former Duke and NBA basketball player loved a lot of things about running his own basketball academy the last couple of years in Jacksonville, Fla. , he never com

The 1988-89 Duke team was all about the hardware. Senior Danny Ferry was awarded the USBWA College Player of the Year, and Coach Mike Krzyzewski won his first College Coach of the Year Award. However, the Blue Devils were far from spectacular, going 9-5

Each week, a member of the Suns talks about some topics outside of Suns games. Question: Your "Duke '91 and '92" documentary that you co-executive produced with Christian Laettner will be screened Thursday in Los Angeles. What was the genesis of the proj