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Krzyzewski, Smith, Valvano: Excerpts from upcoming book ‘The Legends Club’

THE LEGENDS CLUB - Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and an Epic College Basketball Rivalry by John Feinstein

Copyright © 2016 by John Feinstein

Published by arrangement with Doubleday, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday

Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC

When the North Carolina State basketball team flew into Raleigh-Durham International Airport on the night of April 5, 1983, a crowd that police estimated to be about five thousand people was waiting to greet the team. As Jim Valvano exited the plane, a local police officer was waiting for him.