Coach K on The Colbert Report

If you've never seen The Colbert Report before, please take the following steps -- close your browser, shut down your computer, and move to another country. Seriously, Stephen Colbert's ability to make any and all confrontations between famous authors, politicians and now college basketball coaches funny is a thing of beauty. Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski was on the Report Tuesday, talking about his new book and, thanks to Colbert, he somehow wound up comparing Stephen to LeBron James.

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Coach K does admit that the best basketball player he ever coached was a Tar Heel (Oh, the insanity!), but that was of course Michael Jordan with the 1992 Dream Team. Also, the best exchange of the entire interview was when Colbert suggested some sort of Flying V basketball play, only to get a mild smile from Krzyzewski, who admitted he might try the play at some point.

(Since we are talking about The Colbert Report and sports people, we might as well link to Bill Simmons on the show back in 2006. Always good to trot that one out there.)