To make the Final Four every single year of Christian Laettner's career was simply astounding and incredible.
Well I was living the era that Duke went from a formerly great program that was way down, but widely loved.....to them being a good, then great, then dominant program - that was hated.
What the ESPN special made clear is what I’ve always known...the hatred is absurd, misplaced, and based on totally incorrect assumptions. People see K and Laettner on TV and think they “hate” them. They don’t know them.
I thought the ESPN special exposed the haters as petty, baseless, small....while Duke, K, and the entire Laettner family came off as not only great, but worthy of respect and admiration.