I was 100 percent happy there. But I couldn’t turn down the challenge of coaching the Knicks. If I didn’t take the job, I would have always wondered about it. You’re entering a tunnel and it’s dark and you don’t know what’s at the end of it. I told my team it was for this reason and only this reason I took the job – the challenge.
Rick Pitino Quotes
Billy coached as perfect a game as I’ve ever seen in a national championship game. It reminded me of 1987 when he carried an average Providence team to the final weekend.